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Travis Walton Abduction, 1975

Rare recording of abductees Betty & Barney Hill questioned by Carl Sagan...

Zanfretta Abductions, 1978 - 1981 -Some Notes

My assessment of the Zanfretta and that is that we can easily explain away his hair turning grey and then white as well as his appearing to age more down to...being a human being. There is nothing unusual in this. The dark urine could be down to a temporary medical condition since I cannot find mention of any samples having been tested. His running around confused and so on could have been a temporary "mental lapse" -collapsing being his body shutting down after this.

Nothing unexplainable and I have always maintained that without secondary evidence or eye witness testimony of something having been seen the single witness/percipient gets a low credibility rating. In UFO Contact? I go into more detail and cite cases as to why this is. However in the Zanfretta case we have a stumbling block in explaining this all away.

Firstly, we know Zanfretta was found with, basically, an over heated body and with a high temperature coming from his car which, at that time of the year should have not been possible. The video explains a lot of this so watch it for that info. The biggest stumbling block is that locals reported strange lights in the area of Zanfretta's encounter and on more than one occasion and the idea that they would all lie to the military police investigators...not a good idea at that time.

We then have corroboration of a "UFO" from Zanfretta's colleagues who went out after he went missing -one even firing at a "UFO" and discharging your gun is not something taken lightly and there is little doubt that the guard would have been questioned by his bosses as well as the military police. 

If we looked at this as a case of alleged alien abduction then it has a great deal going for it even if the evidence is merely anecdotal and from many witnesses. Physical traces, etc -let's not forget that.

The problem comes in what Zanfretta related under hypnosis and this is where I have a problem. One later hypnosis resulted in the hypnotist stating that Zanfretta was telling the truth but deluded -because he believed he had been abducted. But all the psychological checks and tests revealed that Zanfretta was sane and not delusional -and luckily these were proper medical checks not Ufologist created.

Let's assume that on the night in question Zanfretta was confronted by an alien entity and that this resulted in an abduction. UFOs were being seen for some time so there is the possibility that Zanfretta may not have been alone but that is pure speculation. He was a lone security guard out in an isolated area with very little chance of anyone else showing up: that made it a perfect scenario for an abduction -alien or human. 

Nothing about his experience is out of the ordinary when it comes to what we know about such cases. Zanfretta was returned and then his recall is under hypnosis and that, as I stated, is the problem. If we are believing that communication took place via telepathy or some other means we have to consider that this is a human being, probably seeing UFOs as a joke, who suddenly has his entire world view shattered. He is confronted by alien entities and a physical examination aboard a "UFO" and his mind would be trying to process this while any communication is going on. People involved in major incidents vary to not recall or get what someone with them or a rescuer says -they are concentrating on the shocking situation they find themselves in.

It is possible, if this was a real incident, that Zanfretta only understood or grasped some of what was being communicated. He was after all no astrophysicist and so may have misunderstood or misinterpreted what was being communicated and under hypnosis his mind would be trying to put the pieces together and what is said may, in some parts, seem nonsensical. 

If these abductions/encounters take place then it is stupidity on the part of Ufologists and others to assume that everything would be set out A to B to C to D and make perfectly logical sense. A nice clean account with nothing left out and no confusion. Even those who can recall some of their encounter find parts of it blocked and the idiotic way some use hypnosis to try to "break through" these blocks can only cause more problems. These are human beings encountering something that should not be, using basic and loose terms, aliens and extraterrestrial space craft. Nothing would prepare them for that and, as noted already, this would shatter the normal human world view. 

We know that many alleged UFO abductees suffer physiological symptoms that cannot be conventionally explained. We know that some (probably most) suffer from psychological problems after the events and classic post traumatic stress is one of these. If you have two to three normal, intelligent people go out for a drive through the countryside and see an unusual "craft" and find that they are then miles away from where they saw that "craft" and it is an hour later how do you explain that? If those people develop clear signs of mild radiation poisoning and burns as well as eye problems how do you explain that? When a psychologist clearly notes that those people are suffering post traumatic stress then something must have happened. We have such cases and in a number the accounts were only made known after Ufologists threatened to out percipients to local press and media...and later did so any way).

What Zanfretta recalled under hypnosis may be partially true but his mind trying to interpret what happened. Was he abducted three times or did something trigger post traumatic stress and he again relived the abduction?  We will never know because rather than taking time and being patient and trying to coax suppressed memories from him the leap into hypnosis was taken and that might taint a great deal.

I have tried repeatedly to look at all of the recorded facts and explain away the Zanfretta case. In fact I have asked others to do so but they basically ignore the accounts and repeat the usual debunkers claims and those tend to be false and ignoring what we know. I would love to find out Zanfretta was a complete and utter nut job or hoaxer but so far, after several decades, I have failed.

That leaves us with the belief that something happened to Zanfretta that night in what turned out to be a time of high "UFO" activity but how much of his memory was jumbled by hypnosis and how much later events can be attributed to PTSD we have no idea.

In my archive this case is still unexplained.

The Voronezh UFO Landing, 1989

The Abduction of Jacob Jacobsson, 1759: Some Comments On The "Abduction" Theory

A few points that need to be made will be familiar to those who have read UFO Contact? 

The house is referred to by some as the "UFO" but in a form created so as not to scare the boy. The little people are, "obviously", the aliens. On the other hand there are those who believe this was all fairy-folk and there is an end to it. 

People go missing all the time and the reasons for this are varied and not always out of choice https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/20/going-missing-why-do-some-people-just-walk-away-from-their-lives 

So, without a detailed investigation of a report from 1759 it is difficult to know what caused Jacob to disappear for four days. He had not eaten or drunk water in four days -he admitted that his experience was mostly confused and forgotten so how does anyone  (including him) know that he did not drink water or eat berries, etc.?  This part of the account can be dismissed because there is no evidence that he did not eat or drink for 4 days and besides which a healthy young man could survive a week before growing weak from lack of food.

We then have the alleged encounter. Jacob is wandering off to do what he had to do and suddenly found a road that should not be there and then saw the house which he entered and it was the supposed encounter that shocked him back to his normal self. 

 Hypnagogia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Or, perhaps, an altered state of consciousness which appear to be the cause of a number of alien entity encounters (see UFO Contact?) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_state_of_consciousness#:~:text=Michael%20Winkelman%20identifies%20four%20different,belonging%20to%20the%20integrative%20mode.

Considering the period involved and that this was a countryside setting even ergot poisoning cannot be ruled out https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ergot-poisoning#what-it-is however, no one else appears to have been noted as suffering from this so I think that can be ruled out.

I have noted in my books how people I know well have slipped into altered states during the day while out and about and that this state can continue for some time and they will explain who or what they saw and swear blind this happened. However, on coming back to a normal state can get angry when you insist that you told them about what you had seen -these people are not mad or insane but quite normal but prone to such episodes.  Those I have known no longer had such states of consciousness after their teenage years.

So, if the Jacobsson case is real, it is possible that he lapsed into such a state and then the non existent road appeared and house and he interacted with the small people all in his mind but to him very physically real. 

There is no need to jump on the other dimensional, fairy-folk or extra terrestrials and UFOs band wagon if this is a real case.

UFOs, not Aliens: The Difference and Why it Matters

The Sandown “Ghost Clown,” 1973

Scientists are claiming an alien spaceship crashed straight into Mars (Maybe/Maybe not/who knows)

Is there life on Mars? Well, according to new research, an alien crash landing there could explain puzzling new findings on the surface of the Red Planet.

It comes after Nasa’s Curiosity Rover captured images of spiked protrusions on the surface back in April.

The strange formations captured in the pictures seem to show a row of spikes and sharp angles emerging from rocks at the base of the Gale Crater, which is 154km long.

The odd discovery has put scientists on high alert and it marks one of the most peculiar things ever recorded on the surface of Mars.

Astrobiologist Dr Nathalie Cabrol, who is from the NASA Ames Research Centre and Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, even said that it’s the “most bizarre” rock she’s seen in 20 years of studying the planet.

The findings are so irregular, in fact, that experts cannot rule out the idea that they’re extraterrestrial in origin.

The strange spikes are some of the most significant findings from Mars yet (SWNS)© Provided by Indy 100

“A fragment from an extraterrestrial or terrestrial spacecraft cannot be discounted with absolute certainty” the authors of new research published in the Journal of Astrobiology stated.

The odd protrusions could be “sand spikes”, which form in certain sands as a result of strong earthquakes. Another theory posits that the formation could be debris from crashed spacecraft, and authors of the study have not ruled out that it could be the result of crafts launched by humans landing on the surface.

"Given that possibly 10 or more craft have crashed upon the surface, coupled with the jettison of equipment associated with landing the rovers, it is possible the spikes and its substrate are human-made and consist of debris that fell onto the surface of Gale Crater," the paper reads.

“Nevertheless, no debris field is evident and no evidence of any additional debris that may have originated on Earth.

“Given its small size and that there are no known human-made analogs and no logical explanation as to what purpose these spikes may serve, it does not seem likely these specimens are the remnants of craft or equipment that fell into Gale Crater. One can only speculate about extraterrestrial origin."

However, speaking to The Telegraph, Prof Richard Armstrong, of Aston University, Birmingham said: “There is no way of proving for certain what the spikes are but the balance of the evidence would suggest ‘sand spikes’ resulting from seismic activity on Mars.”

How Much Cooperation Do I Get On The Archives?

 

The author at RAF Manston c 1977

I was asked by someone how much cooperation I was getting on the archives. Well, that is quite a simple question to answer.

None

I have been investigating and studying CE3Ks and Alien Entity reports since 1974 and at that time these cases were frowned up, ridiculed or simply ignored with reports being destroyed. From 1974 until the year I simply could no longer give a damn in (1984) I was also subject to insults such as "he's a UFOnut", "believing that stuff you must be stupid" and sometimes worse. 

Even when I gave talks on the subject the dopy grins were still there - though percipients in encounters approached me later so that was a plus! I met and talked with alleged contactees such as Ernie Sears as well as people who believed that they were subjects of long term alien abductions. I examined first hand reddened skin on just one side of the percipients body as well as getting to know them which is really essential if you want to evaluate their claims. 

I was even pushed forward by a group of police officers in one incident when 'aliens' were observed in an allotment at 0300hrs. "We'll deal with the burglars but this is your job, Quatermass!" was the response when I asked whether anyone  was coming with me. "Quatermass" was a nick name that some bright spark in the police gave me and it stuck (if you know who Professor Bernard Quatermass is you'll see the joke). 

But in UFO circles in the UK it was all considered "nutty stuff" though there were some who were interested such as the late Norman Oliver and even Lionel Beer was willing to offer encouragement to pursue the matter. You either accepted fake contactees such as George Adamski and got accepted or looked at cases such as the Hills, Walton etc and that made you a tad stupid because Adamski had told everyone just who the space brothers were and where they were from.

There was also the rather distasteful side of Ufology where they had to have their titillation and spicy stories for their club magazine. Threatening to "out" abductees to the local papers was not unusual. In one case, that was probably a major incident in the 1970s, 30 members of a local UFO group turned up on the doorstep of a teenage female percipient demanding to talk to her.

However, Ufologists then began to send me reports and ask for advice on cases they had. The New Ufology, of course, understood that this was all psychological or (their favourite) some form of paranormal phenomenon. I have seen, and have copies of their "full investigative reports" and they are damning by their being just what the witness told them on a form to "I heard something fall in the kitchen which put me on edge. There seemed a definite paranormal angle to this". Can I just write that at my age I have come to learn that things always fall over in kitchens and there is no paranormal reason for it.

But I was still able to get these reports and the same with contacts in Europe and elsewhere around the world. Even if some did not believe the reports they forwarded them Then European groups decided that a version of "New Ufology" was the way to go. No matter how much trace or corroborating evidence/testimony there was it got put down to "all in the mind".  Again, these "scientific" investigators produced brief investigation reports and the most text came in the part where, at times, they were digging into pretty obscure things and theories to "explain it all away"

Then came Budd Hopkins whose every word went unchallenged. I had tapes of his talks sent to me by a friend in Texas (Travis Whitehurst) and it seemed to be standard alleged UFO abduction cases but then veered away into unfounded claims. Thanks to TV shows the "Greys alien abduction phenomena" became a craze and as with most other crazes it took a while for it to spread around the world as the TV shows told us all about The Greys. From the 1980s on, despite being shown to not quite be telling the truth and fabricating/stacking the evidence cards Hopkins was a super star and a big draw for UFO conferences and TV -others wanted a piece of the action and we got Jacobs, Carpenter and others all feeding the fantasy.

In the meantime the old style UFO landings and CE3Ks were ignored. Witnesses were told that they were abducted. But they remembered every second of the brief encounter -did not matter "You were abducted -possibly from childhood!"  MUFON made good money out of all of this and it's research, if you can call it that, is based on "You were abducted since childhood"

The 1960s Kathy Reeves case could be a high strangeness case but details are often misquoted and added to but it was NEVER investigated. Why? The local UFO investigator couldn't be bothered. No one has ever bothered. Reeves would be in her 70s(?) now and unless she can be traced and spoken to it is a case (one of many) lost because Ufologists could not be bothered. I tried MUFON (again) and no interest. I sent a copy of the file to Barry Greenwood hoping he might know investigators who would be interested. Despite three emails since that time he has not responded. I even suggested the case might interest Erica Lukes... nothing. 

In 1973 the Pascagoula abduction report broke. Two white men allegedly abducted in Mississippi. No one could rush to investigate the case any quicker because this was a big story. In Eupora, Mississippi, same time frame, a group of people in a care saw one UFO land on an interstate road and an entity emerge briefly while a second UFO hovered nearby. A driver in a car coming from the opposite direction braked and did a U turn and drove off. That counts as a major UFO incident. The case was never investigated despite top Ufologists such as Ted Bloecher repeatedly asking local investigators to get involved.Why was it not investigated? The main known witnesses were "black".

Same time frame a man has his car stopped by a UFO and opens fire with a gun when entity(ies) are seen. Never investigated -the percipient was "black". Every and any light in the sky at the time was investigated because witnesses were "white". Damning American Ufology. The witnesses from Eupora etc should be in their 70s by now. It looks like another lost major case. Again, MUFON refused outright to investigate as a "cold case" and even got personally insulting! Greenwood, Lukes and all of the usual suspects were asked if they knew Mississippi based investigators who might be interested or might mention the reports.

Nothing.

In the UK we have the situation where one amateur (he is by no means a real investigator) takes a friend hypnotherapist with him to visit witnesses and put them under hypnosis -that in itself is totally unethical and unprofessional. He claimed in an email to myself that he had "hundreds" of abduction reports each month,

A problem is that Ufology is a mess. You Tube and trashy books full of lies are THE source for many and I can assure you that they are not training videos -the "fan club" attire of all black combat gear adopted by 'Ufologists' and 'ghost hunters' always has me laughing and shows that it is just another fad.

The interest in CE3K/AE reports is simply to pass the time or to steal original material and put it on another blog as "my own work".

So I have all the data and there are cases that need investigating and anything new discovered has been by me because no one is interested. IU am sure that there are still UFO landing reports/CE3Ks but why bother when the Fathers of Deception such as Vallee and Co. are telling us more lies are in fact "the truth" about non-existent flying saucer crashes? Go onto You Tube and you will find very limited, very inaccurate videos on CE3Ks/AEs and a lot from the United States appear to originate from one source and after a year of checking I would not believe it if that source told me "we live on the planet Earth".

No cooperation. Lost cases. That is the 'science' of Ufology in 2023.