Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Entity Reports -pure bunkum. So Why Do Cases Stand Up To Real Scrutiny?

 I have now written four books on what were called Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity cases. If you Google even "real life Close Encounters of the Third Kind" you will get a lot about the 1970s Spielberg movie but, it seems, nothing about alleged real life encounters with alien beings.

Everything today is pop culture. People eat up all the fantasy TV like X-Files, Dr Who, Star Trek etc etc etc as well as the badly faked "real life" TV and internet shows in which the same "UFO experts" spout out the same false information -often twisted so that it conforms to the latest "trend".  Look at You Tube and, quite literally, it is impossible to find anything on the subject that is not ten years old and conforms only to the Hopkins and Jacobs "format encounters" - and the videos that reveal Hopkins was "stacking the decks" when it came to 'evidence' and was quite happy to go along with hoaxes are never ever referred to. Neither is Jacobs tarnished reputation. These were both men I supported back in the 1980s.

Basically, the same old cases are referred to continuously -the "classics" as they are called; Betty and Barney Hill, Pascagoula and Travis Walton. Entity types have been "rebooted" so that they are "Greys" and so have facts. 

Probably the biggest shock I got was in finding that many reports, often repeated over and over again online (to the point of me wanting to poke my eyes out and not see them again) and which people have added 'facts' and details that never existed. These falsehoods are then copy and pasted by others. Approximately 90% of Close Encounters of the Third Kind were never investigated -conclusions were made by reading newspaper clippings and in some cases when, after 25 to 30 years an investigator decided to contact the percipient they had the temerity to scream out at the inaccuracy of journalistic reports! Even today some of the biggest names in Ufology around the world judge reports on news items from TV, the internet (good lords) and newspaper clippings.

There are major cases from the United States that are not even the centre for UFO Studies has records of but I do. Why? Because I research and investigate (CUFOS is not an investigative body so no blame attaches to them) and I dig until I get as much data as possible. Take the 1973 Euporia, Mississippi encounter which was a major UFO incident but even with Ted Bloecher pushing for an investigation it never happened -the witnesses were all black and even in 2020 MUFON refused to re-open the incident as a cold case. The number of incidents involving black Americans that were thrown out is incredible -yet white people reporting lights in the sky got full investigation teams calling on them.

Many physical trace cases listed in the catalogues of the late Ted Phillips were known hoaxes back in the 1960s. The Vallee Landings catalogue list reports that were hoaxes and even misidentifications -known just after they were reported in the 1950s and 1960s and are still quoted today as "solid cases".

Carl Sagan stated that we would not see continuous visits by alien civilisations due to the vast distances that needed to be traversed and, after all, we are NOT a very important planet (unless you want to study how humans are destroying it).

I have written before that so called alien abductions may not actually have been abductions and that the process used to semi-remove memories of incidents may cause the human mind to begin to misinterpret events. Let's be honest; if someone hears all through their lives that UFOs are not real and "all that alien junk" is fake and then finds themselves confronted with the phenomenon as real -that would blow away any world view held by that person. We can see in many cases, as I noted back in the mid 1990s, post traumatic stress syndrome in percipients and we also find that well known and "credible" UFO investigators did not give a damn so long as they got their reports -as in the Liberty, Kentucky case.

Let me make it clear that there is no 100% real solid evidence of alien visitation to Earth. We can also throw out a large percentage of reports as false, misidentifications (a driver repairing a bus by the roadside in France during 1954 was described as a UFO repair incident and still is!) or even "psychological" and I want to make even clearer that this does not include persons who have Ruth syndrome (as explained fully in UFO Contact?) which is complex but there is so much that helps us explain hauntings, poltergeists as well as Bigfoot cases.  Slipping into an altered state of consciousness is not as rare as we might assume and I have seen this in a number of non-UFO cases.

We throw all of those out and we are left with percipients (human beings) who suffer mental trauma -shock- and even post traumatic stress syndrome after an alleged encounter. In some cases these cases of PTSD and shock are not reported because after over 50 years UFO researchers are still copying and pasting and have never even looked at the actual reports. There has to have been something that caused this because a regular human being going out berry picking or for a country walk or drive does not suddenly go into mental shock and they certainly do not develop full on PTSD which they suffer from even after 40-50 years.

What caused that?

These same people do not suddenly "just happen" to get a high dose of radiation and display signs of radiation poisoning.

What caused that?

There are deep impressions in the group that people who passed by the day before state was not there and the dry, packed earth was tested and jumped on but no imprint of significance was left.

What caused that?

If just the percipient we can offer all types of explanations and even the silliest ones get accepted because then the percipient was "a nut-job" and we can all get back into our world view. It is why I prefer to look at cases with 2+ percipients because if A slips into an altered state then B cannot -should not- be affected.  Yes, I have looked into such cases so I am not just shooting out weird theories. 

Here is the thing in both single percipient and multiple percipient cases; they are physically and mentally affected and it is not "mass hysteria" but there is some physical trace evidence left behind.

What caused that?

A case of one or several percipients involves someone else who was not aware of the encounter but observed a strange object over the area of the encounter (and in fact -Liberty- saw a strange light above a car)? Interesting but then you have several independent observers reporting a strange object (night or day) as well as an unusual noise coming from the direction of the (unknown to them) encounter.

What was it?

We know that none of the objects or entities encountered were United States or Soviet test craft and pilots -that stretches credibility to the stupid extreme. Debunking. Look at the top secret aircraft that we finally got to see  the SR-71 Blackbird, B-2 Bomber, F-117 and the designs that aviation experts have been looking at and speculating on -not one looks anything like the old  type "UFOs" encountered. Certainly UFOs was a good cover story for U.S. experimental aircraft and testing but the various encounters over the years -no.

If these people encountered a solid, constructed object (craft) and entities from them and there are all of the above aspects of PTSD/mental shock, physiological effects, traces plus other independent observers what do we call that? Well, it is not 100% proof because only those percipients were present and only they experienced the actual event. Mental trauma can alter percipients for life even if they claim it does not -Charles Hickson and Mona Stafford (and her late friends) are certainly examples of this. For many it is a case of never going out driving or walking at night -even if people are willing to accompany them. For others they shrug and say "It's something that happened" and get on with their lives (no one knows what is really going through their minds but they decide to get on with life aqnd treat it as a one off event).

When I wrote Some Things Strange and Sinister and Some More things Strange and Sinister I included some CE3K/Entity reports -reports accepted as factual even today (because no one has bothered checking). There were interesting cases but some fell apart just through mild scrutiny. It made me sit back and think. I had to ask "are all of these reports just pure bunk. Un-investigated trash to fill and sell books?" I was, after looking into these reports since 1974, a full-on sceptic with huge files and reference material going up to the ceiling (not an exaggeration). Time, I thought, to look into some of the "classic cases" as well as other reports and show once and for all that we had all been taken for a (non-UFO) ride.

My approach to putting together UFO Contact? The evidence for Alien Visitation was simple -I gathered together the case reports I wanted to include and would look at each and when I mean look at I read as many debunking post and articles on the individual cases that I could as well as the pro-material. I looked at all of this with no bias because looking at it in any other way -anti or pro- would make the work just another pointless piece of pap to add to the Ufological book shelf. 

After a year I concluded the work and my manuscript was written. I sat back and was not very happy. I had not reached the conclusion I had expected before work began. I threw the work out and started again and this time checked and double checked the debunking sources quite sure that I had missed something. I threw out the second draft and started again because all I was finding was that the debunking side side were lying as badly, if not worse than the pro UFO side.

I looked at the psychological side of things and came up with "Ruth Syndrome" and a "classic" British abduction case fell to pieces as it was evident from the earliest reports that the percipient was apt to fall into waking-dream states. Unfortunately, that did not help. In fact I found some of aspects of reports that Ufologists had not disclosed.. that made cases stronger. There could obviously be no 100% proof because of the nature of the reports but I tried and retried and in the end had to conclude that the percipients were giving truthful accounts and that many had independent back up in the form of unconnected observers of a UFO at the time.

To many this is annoying because I would not write "this is evidence that aliens are visiting us" -it is anecdotal and circumstantial evidence that these events very likely happened but it is still not 100% physical proof.

With the second book Unidentified -Identified: UFO Crashes and Alien Entity Encounters I looked deeper into certain cases, again some "classics" but which were not fully investigated and had far more evidence never included in online accounts or books. While many aspects of cases could be explained away based on what had already made it into print there was the problem that a great deal had never been reported such as in the Rosa Lotti case which when I read it all (having had to translate much of it) had be stumped. From a silly story of aliens stealing a stocking and flowers it became a fully credible case.

Using the same working process as with the previous work and digging into more non-UFO related (we assume) events parallels could be found including specific entity types that appeared in a number of reports but no one, it seems, had ever noted this.

I realised that I needed to get away from a lot of the classic reports and search my files for reports either poorly reported in English language sources or totally unknown outside of the country the reports came from. I also decided to see how other countries dealt with UFOs and CE3Ks. This led to  Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?

By this time I was beginning to ask myself why the various Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) programs as well as astronomers were not concentrating more on Near Space rather than  Deep Space where a message sent would reach its destination in 55,000 years and we would need to wait another 55,000 years for a response (if any)? Yes, there are astronomers who are willing to look at (mainly) sightings of objects and a very few might discuss what aliens might look like yet none had a system of checking reports and investigating them if they were sound enough as the French had been doing since the 1950s.

I looked at the possibility of "lurkers" within our solar system -automatic alien probes that might be sent out to carry on long term surveys. I questioned whether private SETI might be needed (years before, of course, NASA decided that it would look at UFO reports). My conclusion was that 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. Why is NASA not looking at these? Why are astronomers so reticent? In a number of cases with astronomers the reason is almost hysterical fear that there might be alien life let alone aliens passing by.

Even more was uncovered as I found previously unknown (in English and in their own countries) French, German and Australian cases as well as reports that were never fully followed up in the United States but which had many parallels with others cases and especially the entity descriptions.

My ultimate question had to be why was I (supposedly trying to explain away such cases) turning up so much in the way of correlations and new evidence that big UFO investigation organisations had not?

Even when the third, and intended final, book on the subject was done and dusted things were niggling away at my mind. As much as I did not want to get into another heavily researched book (each and every sources looked at is noted in the books so that they can be peer reviewed if necessary) I decided that Beyond UFO Contact -Aliens from Mind, Time and Space would look at certain reports and aspects such as what might we expect aliens to look like and whether Ufology has progressed since 1977 when it comes to CE3K/AE cases. 

I thought I would give two good examples of "debunked" cases such as that of "Sonny" DesVerger and Dionisio Llanca... I then found that Ufologists had followed the U.S. Air Force line with DesVerger and even the Blue Book and Ruppelt's later book contradicted themselves; rather dubious Ufologists were quite willing to spread a lie that DesVerger, a scout master, was "fond of boys".  As I read more the case (tarnished slightly by the fact that DesVerger was known to tell a tall tale or two -as a joke) went from Ufology's outright hoax to credible. That was not something I wanted to find out.

At least I knew I was on firmer ground with Llanca but then that thought came back to bite me. Flying Saucer Review was outrightly racist toward Llanca (he had the look, according to Gordon Creighton (to be fair anyone not from the civilised west or with a darker skin were all noted as ill educated and superstitious was, according to Creighton, the same as Llanca -"primitive") and even twisted a few facts (not for the first time) to dismiss the case. In fact Llanca comes off as genuine and when he was tracked down years later tried to deny who he was but  eventually related a rather sad story of how the encounter had affected him and, yes, he appeared to suffer PTSD.

With both reports I read, re-read then re-read all the information and then double checked and the "HOAX" classification in my files had to be changed. And why were DesVerger and Llanca given such a bad deal by Ufology? Because they reported entities. 

I took a fresh look at the Imjarvi Skiers case, the case of Piero Franzetta as well as Harrison Bailey's alleged long term encounters. The claims of Pat McGuire and his ranch -a pre-Skinwalker Ranch if you will and a true predecessor to Skinwalker -the Clearview Ranch case -aliens, bigfoot and much, much more.

Why the Eileen Moreland case is not better known outside of New Zealand is ridiculous and well worth noting.

I looked at the cases that Ufologists tend not to want to look into but which have parallels with UFO cases (just no UFO).

The books were, for me, a sharp learning curve as I had to re-think everything I had read or heard in Ufology  and in the end concluded Do Not "Believe" in UFOs -Follow the evidence. I did and I also looked at how someone ought to behave when confronted by a landed UFO and how I would (I hope!) react in such a situation.

Having heard "30 year UFO veterans" when talking about UFOs say "We have reports of these little guys and what's that all about?" Really, 30 and 40 year "UFO veterans" have been chasing reports of UFOs and believe they are craft but never once thought that craft might be controlled or flown -how passenger aircraft fly the skies much be a real mystery to them.

If you want the facts and no personal agenda and to find out which cases seem far more credible then the books are there and if they do not wake you up to the fact that "something" is going on nothing ever will.

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.

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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
 Early 20^th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
   Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 
  Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue      

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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 ?

  

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

Alien Entity -CE3K

 

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Closing -2015-2021 Four Comments and Total Lack of Interest

 I had hoped that with all the increased interest in UFOs/UAP something might get going here but rather like the Face Book page there is no apparent interest. Why post what I already know to an audience that doesnt care?

Enough high views but agreat deal of stealing poriginal blog data.

As of tomorrow this blog closes and permanently.

Captured! The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Experience -time to cut the string?

 

• Before I write what I am about to and have every UFO nut in the world scream at me here is the review of the book by Friedman and Marden about the case.
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Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: New Page Books,US (30 Sept. 2007)

ISBN-10: 1564149714

ISBN-13: 978-1564149718

Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.5 x 2 cm


The book blurb reads:

" Today, 46 years after the UFO abduction of Betty and Henry Hill, more and more people are convinced that UFO's are real and that governments are covering up their existence. If you have doubts or questions about the Hill case or alien experiences ingeneral, CAPTURED! will give you the answers you're searching for.

The 1961 abduction of the Hills stirred worldwide interest, primarily because of the book The Interrupted Journey, the subsequent media coverage and a 1975 TV movie, The UFO Incident. The case is mentioned in almost all UFO abduction books. It, also, became a target for debunkers, who still attack it today. But the complete story of what really happened that day, its effect on the participants and the findings of investigators has never been told…until now.

In CAPTURED!...you'll get an insider's look at the alien abduction, previously unpublished information about the lives of the Hills before and after Barney's death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty's experiences as a UFO investigator and other activities before her death in 2004.

Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill's niece, shares details from her discussions with Betty and from the evidence of the UFO abduction. She, also, looks at the Hill's riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard the spacecraft. The transcripts of these sessions provide insight into the character of the aliens, including their curiosity, their democratic discussions and their desire to avoid inflicting pain.

In addition, co-author, physicist and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident, reviews and refutes the arguments of those who have attacked the Hill case, including the star map Betty Hill saw inside the craft and later recreated."

I became interested in what accounts of "Occupants" (as we called them)  of so-called flying saucers might be able to tell, since reports of lights-in-the-sky (LITS) told us literally nothing and those of seemingly constructed craft did not give us the "nuts and bolts" we needed.  For me, finding out more about Occupant physiology might offer explanations in one form or another.  Yes, our rockets took men into space and to the Moon and the rockets and capsules work like this or that -but how did the journey affect the men flying in them?  How did they get chosen or trained to sit on multiple tons of explosive fuel and ride those flying bombs into space?

I very early on dismissed Adamski and other Contactees.  The stories were so full of holes and how people were believing the crap they were dishing out dumbfounded me -but, yes, I was fascinated by how they accepted it -their thinking.

Then, in the early 1970s, I came across a book by John G. Fuller -The Interrupted Journey. People I spoke to kept referring to a "mixed race" couple which is pure nonsense.  There is only one race on Earth -humans and who gives a flying fig what skin colour was involved?  In fact, I had to take this into account later to understand the reasoning of some critics and Ufologists (pro or con) even though it was still irrelevant.

I was left in two minds. I had heard of "space-nappings" before such as Antonio Villas Boas, but this was the first that seemed to have any effort made to substantiate what happened, even if I was unsure how hypnosis was going to help.

When I finished the book I was stumped.  What did other Ufologists think?  Well, two that I recall responded with "Well, it was a white woman married to a black man -no idea what they might be up to!" Two less Ufologists to talk to, I thought.  Others told me that believing this junk would mean no one taking me seriously -"at least Adamski had the foot-prints in the desert and photographs!" and they were being seriously.  In fact, no one I talked to really wanted to commit themselves on the case -Norman Oliver, then of BUFORA, was one of the very rare ones who told me he believed the Hills.

But over the years there was "this" allegation and "that" explanation.  I heard that Betty Hill thought she could telepathically communicate with aliens and would spend hours alone claiming to do so. There were the claims that Betty was a huge sci fi fan.  Barney was the very impressionable husband who was brow-beaten by Betty into believing things. Betty claimed to have been abducted several times.  It went on and on and yet, when you listened to the recordings of the hypnosis sessions that have been used you realise something must have happened.

Then the explanation.  Betty and Barney being a "mixed race" couple were caught at a makshift roadblock by racist youths and attacked.  it was so horrifying that the torch-light used to flag them down before the attack became a flying saucer and the attackers aliens. At least two magazines and then a lot of Ufologists accepted the idea.  I mean, kidnappers from space?  We all know how racist, violent and out-of-control youths are, right?

Utter pig-swill.

Then I recall Dr Carl Sagan, not one of my favourite people as I've explained before, dealt very briefly with the Hill's and the Fish "star map".  He was a big science media star and in a few minutes destroyed the case and star-map...with complete and utter inaccuracies.

While building up the AE - CE IIIK data base and preparing work for a previously unpublished AOP Bureau report on these cases in the UK, I have been reading a lot of books. Karla Turner, Jacobs and others.  So when I saw this book I thought "Why not?"  I mean, Stanton T. Friedman has a solid reputation and Kathleen Marden was Betty Hill's niece and has all her notes and correspondence. To be truthful I was not expecting to find out a great deal -perhaps a little one-sided in the Hills' favour.

In fact, this book is far better than The Interrupted Journey and includes data never revealed in that book.  Those 21 growths on Barney's groin that could not be identified but were medically removed -if only they had been preserved!  We learn that there was a USAF radar-visual incident involving a UFO and a possible air-intercept attempt along with a UFO sighting on the same evening as the couple claimed they were abducted.

The whole Marjorie Fish star-map story is gone into and, honestly, I came away feeling that this was a strong piece of evidence and, no, Betty would not have been able to fake the chart based on looking at astronomy books at the time.

Page 199-200 refers to what may be one of the first recorded  trance "experiencers" and that I found fascinating because at that time this had never been encountered before.

I think, reading the book, that the sighting of a craft with possible occupant after Barney's death may well have been an hallucination -if you read the book you'll see why.  However that in no way denigrates the original case because there was no extreme stress or ill health involved.  A photo taken by Betty and reproduced on p. 214 is said to show a shadowy figure in a craft window and " possibly stereotypical gray alien emerging from the right side of the disk."  Sadly, due to reproduction of the image on a text page all I can see is two white dots and certainly no shadowy alien or gray let alone a disc-shaped craft. For that reason  I have to throw that out and was one of the weaker elements of the book -but essential to give an overall picture of events.

When it comes to "Betty's fall from grace" in Ufological circles I can say only that it seems that age and Betty wanting to prove UFO reality combined, and yet she so succinctly summed up modern abduction investigators and abductees (pp. 271-272).  And she refers to Dr Simon (who conducted their treatment in the early 1960s) concern that hypnosis would be incorrectly used and exploited by individuals not properly trained -40 years on he is proven correct.

The explanation for claims that Betty thought she could telepathically communicate with aliens is interesting.  In fact most of those claims were bogus.  Betty was taking part in experiments under supervision of no less than Dr J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee amongst others.  These were scientifically minded people who had to become radical thinkers to try to solve the UFO mystery in one way or another.

Oh, and Betty was not  a sci fi fan.

If there is a reason for why Betty came "off track" other than her ill health in later years it was because she wanted to help others who had seen UFOs or claimed to have been abducted and wanted to prove the reality of UFOs.  And this is where Ufology let her down.  Rather than look at the possibility that repeater sightings were possible -or prove they were not (I recall arguing with Ufologists in the 1970s over this: one case from a witness was accepted but a week later the man reported a similar object moving in another direction -both reports were marked as "unreliable" because the witness had two sightings!).  And while working on the AOP Bureau's Grey Book report I realised that there was nothing "weird" or "unbelievable" or even other worldly about someone saying "I sensed something was going to happen and looked over the field and suddenly a UFO appeared" -the explanation lay in science and this might be why Betty realised something was "off" and saw later objects.

Was this book slanted with a Hill bias?  Yes.  But only because Marden and Friedman possessed the information that Ufologists had not seen or known of before.

I am accused of being a Skeptic.  I have defined what that means before but it does not mean dismiss all material/evidence because you can without looking at it. 

I read this book over Saturday and Sunday (with a break for the Rugby World Cup) and had expected to come up with a list of reasons why the Hill case might be "just another explainable abduction" after all these years.

I actually put the book down realising that Betty and Barney Hill were not the people portrayed by debunkers.  They were plain ordinary human beings who fought for civil rights and social justice and were held in high esteem in their local and wider communities.  They did not become rich from re-telling their story.  They never claimed repeated abductions. They just told their story and stuck to it.  In fact, it is quite clear that the couple probably would have been much happier had they not encountered that UFO. Had they not needed to see Dr Simon to try to find out why Barney was suffering ill health and stress.

In a way, Antonio Villas Boas was lucky.  He reported his account and carried on with his life as normal.  The Hills, due to betrayal of confidence from a number of sources, never had that option.  There is the case of Lydia whose abduction Betty helped investigate.  When word got out Lydia and her family moved to another state and, I assume, settled down to carry on their lives.  The Hills never had that option.

It does not make me feel uneasy to write this (after 40+ years of looking at these cases that would be odd!) but, unlike the Abduction Epidemic since the mid 1980s and all the claims, I have to write that I believe the Hills.  Betty stated that she believed these beings came down, took someone onto their craft, did their tests and made them forget (even if not permanently) and released them.  That's it.  Not many millions of abductees as some claim.

But two days ago I never expected to sit down and write that, after 40 years, I am even more certain that Betty and Barney Hill were abducted by aliens.  Pure and simple.

The book is far superior to Fuller's and I recommend this one highly.

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This case is now over 60 years old. Despite what is said and written, mainly by hucksters in the U.S. ufological community and thpose outside the U. S. who really have donre no research other than watch You Tube videos or read trash and badly researche popular UFO books, it was not the first ever reported UFO 'abduction'. The case was exposed to the press and media via a betrayal of confidence (one thing you are guaranteed with when dealing with Ufologists).  Even so, the Hills were far from "media hungry" and despite another claim by debunkers this was not "the greatest UFO hoax in history" -they like to keep labelling every case that way, bless 'em.

If you ignore all the facts and background then, yes, you can call it a hoax. At that time such a claim could not just have destroyed the career of Betty Hill but would have had an even bigger impact on Barney Hill considering all the civil rights work he was involved in. Also, claiming that you met aliens was not a money-spinner. The idea that this was a planned out hoax makes no logical sense but saying that it was helps the debunker feel less scared about the possibility of there being aliens (I swear some of these people would be hiding under the blankets if they saw anything odd in the night sky).

I am not saying that the Hills were abducted by aliens. I cannot because I was not there but having spent over 40 years looking at all the claims and counter-claims it is clear that something very strange took place that defies an earthly explanation. 

Betty and Barney Hill

The same applies to the Travis Walton and the Parker and Hickson cases. So much extra information and no one knows what happened other than those involved. 

Hickson and Parker involved in the Pascagoula incident

The Erica Lukes podcast featured (three parts in total) a never-before-heard-of "documentary maker" who was going to make a film on the Walton case but states (much later when it seems that nothing is to come of this) that he was driving along the same road that Walton and his crew took over forty years before and then decided that was the explanation and the line his film was going to take -after adopting a seeming very two-faced stance with Walton and others. It was all a fire tower. After three gas-lighting episodes (a psychologist I know stated he could not believe how the podcast was taken over and the presenters fell for the "classic gas-lighting line" ) we learnt...nothing. Nothing new was presented and I have already gone into this so let's move on. https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-travis-walton-abduction-with-mike.html

Antonio Villas Boas whose encounter was publicised before the Hills and long before that of Travis Walton (below)

Coming back to the Hill case it is pointless to still go digging for dirt when the two percipients are dead and, well, who really cares any more -it was 60 years ago.

There are other cases out there. Some older and far more detailed and interesting than the Hills (I may be a little unfair in writing that).  And here is the thing; most were never investigated by Ufologists.  Let's say go back to a totally uninvestigated multi-witnesses incident that took place at the height of regional UFO activity. Witnesses in one vehicle approacxhing two objects (one which landed on the Interstate Road) and seeing an entity emerge while, approahing from the other direction, a car was seen to brake, do a U-turn and speed away. Pascagouls had Ufologists crawling out of the woodwork to get involved. Local Ufologists based in the area of the Interstate landing, in Mississippi, were over every UFO sighting report they came across. Not this one despite being asked by Ted Bloecher -the top man on such cases- to follow it up. Why? All of the witnesses were "black". 2019/2020 I tried to get MUFON involved but guess what ?  Not in the least interested. That is the Euporia case that should haunt U.S. Ufology because it totally and utterly ignored it (deliberately) because of seeming racist attitudes. I (thousands of miles away in the UK) had to compile a report on what we know based on files held at the Centre for UFO Studies. With increasing age it is possible we will never hear the first hand description of those involved -just the radio interview notes that Bloecher and Co made.

The ladies involved in the "Liberty, Kentucky" UFO case Louise Smith, Elaine Thomas and Mona Stafford -Stafford  (far right) still stressed and suffering anxiety 40 plus years later and the sole survivor of the trio.

Hopkins, Jacobs and others who promoted the False Abduction Scenario derailed serious investigation and research and any reports where the witnesses were not willing to be told they were abductees were ignored. 

We even have to question the whole use of the term "abduction". In a good few cases those involved were asked whether they wanted to board an alleged craft. A good few declined the offer and so the brief contact ended -no lost time. There are even reports labelled as abductions by Ufologists that were not -percipients willingly entered (allegedly) craft and things (proceeded from there).  I believe we might even question the spo called "alien induced memory block" and the fictitious "screen image" so popularised by Hopkins and Jacobs et al

Putting aside physiologial effects of encounters with UFOs and alleged crews there is the greater effect in many cases that I have written and talked about for almost 40 years yet which is only being accepted in the last ten years or so. The psychological effects. These are far reaching and continue throughout life - the shock of what happened, the shattering of a world view about "silly flying saucer" reports because they (allegedly) have encountered an alien craft and crew and that in itself may have created a mental block in the percipient -we have studies looking at this is war veterans as well as others so there is data to look at. We could argue back and forth all month on whetherthis amnesia (or partial amnesia) is self induced or induced by an outside force and the reason for this. In many cases partial recall may lead a percipent to state something happened that didn't because "it fits" in their minds.

I tend to not put too much faith in single percipient/witness reports unless there is evidence that an unusual object was sighted at the time by others nearby, there may have been some physical effect on the local environment etc. The reason is that the person may have entered an "altered state" or even be someone classed as suffering with "Ruth Syndrome" (see UFO Contact).  Altered state or Ruth Syndrome may well explain the sincerity and claims of certain contactees -because, quite literally- they are not lying.

Ufologists and their ramshackle idea of investigation and all of massive drawbacks to Ufology as it exists may well be driving real percipients away. Who can they report encounters to?  With MUFON you might get promised confidentiality but are immediately labelled an "experiencer" (thus an abductee) and MUFON has sold all information on such peopleto Robert Bigelow before now -as have other researchers. 

Since 1974, although it could have made me money (which I need), I have never once betrayed a witness confidentiality -in my wildlife work, UFO work and other areas and some reports will never see the light of day because a promise was made.  

Unfortunately, although I do have a legally obligated person check anything I use to I can provethe report is genuine, in 100% of cases with Ufologists it is a case of "No. No info -you have to tame my word on it!" which means that I do not and neither should anyone else. A solicitor/lawyer is obliged by oath to reveal no information a clint oes not want revealed but can look over documents signed and submitted and state that he/she has seen them and they are authentic  and from a witness. One Ufologist tells me he gets a hundred or more alien abduction reports from the UK every month but does not quote the percipient accounts but rather "re-writes them" in his own words to protect the reportee.  So, anyone can state quite rightly that he is writing fiction. He is providing no evidence just stories and yet he gets angry at sceptics stating this because "the evidence I have gathered is irrefutable and 100%  genuine" just no one but him has seen this evidence which makes it non-evidence.

If precipients/witnesses to old cases, however far back, are still alive they need to be contacted and spoken to and first hand (not old press snippets) accounts written down. And we then need to continue doing this while applying careful  witness appraisals (again see UFO Contact).  Data gathered has to be as accurate as we can get it. 

We need to move on from talking about the same old 45, 50 or 60 year old reports. I doubt Euporia or any of the other cases in the U.S. or outside of it will ever be looked into seriously.  But I will continue to tilt my lance at windmills.

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Other UFO researchers who have read the book are of similar opinions. So are you going to just carry on reading the same old same old half truths and lies or try to find out what is REALLY going on?

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

 

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