I was working until after 0200 hrs on a chapter to the next book and it involved child witnesses (the oldest was 11 years old) so I thought it would make a good filler and leave the reader to decide on whether it was true or not.
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Thursday, 11 July 2024
Well, Try As I Might I Cannot Explain This One
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
"with arms outstretched" Felixstowe, Suffolk 1965
Note: I would recommend that anyone looking for a good factual history of UFOs including many lost accounts, go look for volumes of The Haunted Skies
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At around 22:30 hours on the 20th September, 1965, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, three young people, Michael Johnson and Mavis Fordyce, and the car driver Geoffrey Maskey parked in Walton Avenue. They were chatting when Michael suddenly opened his door and rushed out without a word of explanation. His friends were initially disconcerted but thought that he perhaps needed to “answer the call of nature”.
After a few minutes Geoffrey and Mavis heard a high pitched humming sound and saw, some 30 meters (100 feet) away, a very luminous, orange oval shaped object, approximately 2 meters long. Accounts state that this “hovered above the car” or “Moved across the road” while illuminating the surrounding landscape in an orange gleam. The object moved fast and was lost from sight behind some trees though its sound remained clearly audible.
After a few minutes, as they recovered from surprise, the duo realized that Michael had not returned and became anxious; they called out to him, in vain and drove in reverse along the lane and called out to him again –still getting no response. But then Michael finally appeared looking shocked and was staggering with his hands clutching at his head. His friends first thought was that he was playing some joke, but he then collapsed onto the road. He was unconscious and so Geoffrey and Mavis got him into the car rushed him to the hospital in Felixstowe.
At the hospital Michael regained consciousness but was unable to recognise his friends. The doctors diagnosed a serious shock and took care of his wounds: burn marks on the neck and a contusion above the right ear. For safety, he was transferred to the hospital in Ipswich which was better equipped. The next day he could go home as he was lucid again.
He told his friends that when he had suddenly left the car without a word it was him obeying an unknown and pressing "force". He was uncertain how far he had walked but had suddenly been confronted by a humanoid entity with large oblique and luminous eyes, surrounded by orange flames. He had no memories of what happened next until he woke up at the hospital.
It seems that the doctors scoffed at the story and joked about “Martians” while suggesting that the light they had seen was the flame from a propane gas works stack –this they all vehemently denied -and the newspapers, tipped off by a “ufological source”, had not taken the incident seriously either.
When I first read this case I obviously asked Flying Saucer Review what had been discovered since the incident. I got the now oh so familiar “That’s all there was to it” response. Had investigators even checked with doctors at the two hospitals –it seems not…but they could run off to the press.
An image published in conjunction with later retellings -possibly from the 1980s Unexplained magazine?
Again, decades later, John Hanson and Dawn Holloway of the Haunted Skies Project decided to try to find out what had happened. In this case they tracked down Geoffrey Maskey who gave them a more factual account:
“I was with my girlfriend, Mavis Forsyth, driving along Walton Avenue,
Felixstowe, at 10.30 pm, with my friend –Michael Johnson. ‘Mick’ asked
me to stop the car because he needed to attend to a call of nature. After a
few minutes had elapsed, I began to wonder what had happened to him,
especially when we heard what sounded like a mixture of very weird noises
and a high-pitched humming noise, followed by the appearance of an orange,
glowing, object lighting up part of the road, as it headed off eastwards, over
Walton Avenue, towards the coast.
“Now worried, I reversed the car up and down the road, with the window open,
calling out his name.
“About fifteen minutes later, Mick staggered out of the hedge at the side of the road,
clutching the back of his neck, and fell onto the ground –apparently unconscious.
“We managed to put Mick, who had a noticeable burn mark on the back of his
neck, into the Vanguard car and rushed him to Felixstowe Hospital.
“After arriving at the Hospital, and explaining to the casualty staff what had
happened, he became the butt of much humour, being referred to as the ‘Martian’
by his friends. Mick, who seemed completely oblivious to what was going on, seemed to
have some sort of fit and tried to take his clothes off, flaying his arms about.
It required the strength of three or four members of staff to restrain him, before
He was taken away for treatment”.
Above: P Geoffrey Maskey in the mid-1960s courtesy © 2018 G. Maskey/J. Hanson
Geoffrey telephoned the hospital the next morning and was told that Michael had been treated for “severe shock” and he was told that no one could visit him. Five days later Michael was discharged from hospital; Geoffrey saw that the burn mark had now disappeared from his friend’s neck. Michael told his friend what had happened:
“I remember seeing a glowing silver/orange object descending next to where
I was stood, about 12 feet above me. Standing on the side of the ‘craft’ were
two humanoid figures wearing steel coloured suits, with arms outstretched at
chest height, showing long pointed fingers. I saw them go back into the ‘craft’,
and the next thing I remember was waking up in hospital”.
It seems that the police had checked the area out but found nothing unusual.
These are the facts and facts that the flying saucer fraternity should have known about at the time had they spoken to one of the trio. Dr Bernard Finch wrote at the end of Charles Bowen’s very brief piece:“Several interesting points emerge from this episode. We have an example of
‘selective attraction’. Why, we ask, was it only Michael Johnson and not the
others who appeared to be attracted to the object?
“Again, the other two sitting in the car appear to have been protected
(or insulated) from the emanating force field : again, the effect of the force
field appears remarkable in the fact that according to its intensity (or distance from
source), so the effect varies from simple peripheral nerve paralysis to major
interruption of cerebration, resulting in loss of consciousness, shock and loss
of memory.”
I do so love how Finch got away with such utter fantastical bilge and fantasy and all based on a newspaper clipping because it is very obvious that this is what the UFO ‘expert’ had to pontificate on. Had he talked to any of the people involved he would have found out just what Michael recalled taking place –even the part about the doctors referring to Michael as the ‘Martian’ is incorrect. But this fine ufological tradition of investigating a case by newspaper clippings continues over fifty years later.
If there is one thing that I have learnt, backed up by John Hanson’s own findings, is that ufology rarely bothered getting involved in leg work and the nonsense that Finch spouted shows exactly why science never takes ufology seriously. Exactly what “emanating force field” and how does the effect vary? Then we have “the other two sitting in the car appear to have been protected (or insulated) from the emanating force field”; well that is interesting because there is then the question of just how were Geoffrey and Mavis “protected (or insulated)” –Michael was in the same car. But this is where the lack of any investigation shows since Michael did not “suddenly rush out of the car”.
For over fifty years ufology has been quoting ‘facts’ that are wrong simply because someone –Finch and Bowen- sat in their chairs and “investigated by newspaper clipping”; no one thought to look into the report in more detail. When I tried in the mid 2000’s to see if I could find any of those involved it seemed older locals knew about the incident but ask if Mavis, Geoffrey or Michael still lived in the area: “No idea”. Well, we know that Geoffrey does still live in the area but locals tend to keep tight-lipped when you start asking questions.
As for Michael, we can only hope that this was a one time encounter and that after it he got on with his life. The question really has to be whether after something like this, when you can’t remember what happened, can you get on with your life normally?
I hope Michael has.
NOTE 20th September, 1965 Felixstowe, Suffolk
(1) Felixstowe Glowing Object Mystery, Ipswich Evening Star, 21st September,
1965
(2) Bowen, C., "Knock-Out Blow At Felixstowe",Flying Saucer Review Volume 11,
No. 6, November, 1965: pp. 4 & 27
(3) Hanson, J. & Holloway, D., Haunted Skies vol. 2 (2010): pp. 260-263
Hypnosis -think about its use.
I have written as well as said on many occasions that any person conducting regressive hypnosis on a person suspected to have lost time during a UFO encounter should not be a person interested ort active in studying UFOs. The person should definitely not be a Ufologist.
The late D. Scott Rogo wrote (UFO Report – April, 1980):
"Being a parapsychologist, I am keenly aware of the fact that the hypnotic state makes a person particularly open to telepathic impressions.There is a great deal of experimental as well as anecdotal evidence to this effect. While regressing Jo, could she have picked up telepathic cues from my mind which she elaborated into false memories of a UFO abduction?"
In fact, Dr Leo Sprinkle also stated later on in his work that he feared a possible "abductee" under hypnosis may have had thoughts transferred to them from his mind during hypnotic sessions.
If -if- we assumed that Budd Hopkins was not stacking the decks and faking things or passing on things as evidence that he knew 100% were fake then it could explain his early findings. I have absolutely no doubt that at the very start he was truly investigating and trying to find out what was going on. When and where he went off the rails is a matter for debate.
A hypnotist should not have a head full of preconceived notions about UFOs and abductions because if -IF- transference of thoughts is even a possibility it could lead to many incorrect conclusions. It is a reason why I have and would exclude myself from being in on any such sessions. We have to ensure that any information recalled is a genuine recollection. Sessions where a Ufologist carries out regression hypnosis with 2-3 other Ufologists present create a massive problem if Sprinkle, Rogo et al are correct.
We are, supposedly, here to find the truth or at least clues as to what is going on in these encounters -the reason that the Hills' hypnotic regression sessions stand up so well is that Dr. Benjamin had no knowledge of UFOs and still did not believe in them after the sessions. He is, therefore, unlikely to have polluted any recall with "thought transference".
Look at it this way; there is a Ufologist in the UK who claims to have uncovered hundreds of abduction experiences each year. No one is allowed to see the evidence of this and even alleged percipient statements he re-writes in his own words 'so as to protect the witness'. Right there he has totally discredited himself and what he is doing. This person also takes a hypnotherapist with him on first meeting any witness and those witnesses must agree to undergo preliminary hypnosis at that first meeting. This is totally unethical (but then it is Ufology).
Any potential UFO witness needs to first talk to the investigator person-to-person so that they are relaxed and feel comfortable. Only then should the person be asked to recount what they can recall of their sighting. If it does seem as though there is missing time then telling them they need to be hypnotised outright is not a good idea. There are techniques that can be suggested to see whether the witness can get some recall. It should be noted that if the witness is undergoing anxiety and stress then hypnosis can be used to relieve that but not to immediately begin interrogating them.
I know I "play the same old tune" but if a witness is in fact a percipient in an onboard experience then they have had their entire world view smashed apart. A Close Encounter of the Second Kind can shatter a world view based on "its all silly flying saucer stories" so imagine what a CE3K would do. How many people involved in CE3K events do you suppose remain in contact with investigators after the initial fuss and then the book or lecture tours are out of the way? Perhaps 1-2% if I am being generous.
The percipients in the best cases have passed away and did Ufology know or report on their passing? No. Louise Smith, Elaine Thomas, Antonio Villas Boas, Jean Hingley, Val Walters -the list goes on and on. In my books I try as hard as I can to find out what happened to percipients and note their deaths -shockingly, I found much od Ufology had not even heard that the last percipient in the 1973 Pascagoula encounter, Calvin Parker, had passed away.
We have to treat people in these encounters as human beings and not cash cows. Hypnosis should not just be jumped into at a first meeting or even a second meeting and in many cases I would suggest that it is only considered if and when the person involved asks whether it is worth trying.
There are a number of cases on file that bear all the tell-tale signs of missing time experiences and in some cases there are witnesses to a UFO. I would not even suggest to them that they may have had onboard experiences and memory loss. They have gotten on with their lives and the incident is recalled as a UFO sighting and put to the back of their minds. What right do I have to open a whole can of worms that these people then have to live with as I get on with other things?
Ufologists tend to jump to hypnosis as the "best tool for the job" without considering any of the implications of its use and, yes, that has gotten me some rather angry responses from Ufologists who consider what they want far more important than the witness.
Hypnosis -think about its use.
Sunday, 7 July 2024
Stanford and Eupora
Mona Stafford, the last living member of the trio in the 1976 Stanford, Kentucky UFO abduction case was last interviewed by LEX18 TV on 15th July, 2011.
Learn about who/what may be behind the UFOs instead.
Just going through the final edit of what will be my fifth book on CE3K/AE cases I have to admit that there is still very little respect for this type of work.
If you go onto most search engines and type in "UFOs Close Encounters of the Third Kind" all you will get is the 1977 Spielberg movie. Seriously, try it. UFO sightings, faked photos and footage you can find a junkyard full of. You can find many blogs and videos about sightings of objects -oddly these are all taken seriously but add in an entity and you'll see the negativity and ignorance explode. Scam conspiracy and other claims and -everywhere.
What does the report of an unknown object tell you?
It was an un known object.
All of the "cover up" and other conspiracy stuff is NOT designed to get to the truth about UFOs. It's to sell books, get on TV and make money.
All of the faked debris from a UFO -to con money out of people. I have pieces of such debris and even a preliminary analysis carried out by an independent (of me) lab. No interest.
What will tell us far, far more than any money-spinning disclosure project or fake piece of metal is to learn who/what is controlling the objects seen around the planet. That can tell us far more than any other aspect of UFOs because we are then looking at what used to be termed "the operators". What can we surmise from their appearances and how much further advanced are they compared to us? We have stealth aircraft designed by a few people but 97% of the human race has no idea how stealth aircraft work so a superior craft does not mean superior race/intellect.
Most UFO groups (except for the outright exploiters who fake report after report) tend to push their CE3K/AE reports out of the way once they have exploited them to pull in more paying readers or members quickly. BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) had absolutely no idea how to tackle these cases. It totally ruled out regression hypnosis in time loss cases while some of its better known members used hypnosis as it helped with selling the next book.
There are major United States cases that people have no idea about because, despite their faults, the only organisation cataloguing and investigating these reports was the Lorensens' APRO and when they passed away and APRO closed down that was it. Even the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS) lacks reports on major incidents -I have forwarded copies of some.
Are CE3K cases only used for exploitation? Ask an investigator how the abductee he/she wrote that book on is doing. Chances are high that he/she has no idea "Not been in touch with them in years" -because they were exploited until they had no more to give. Some have passed away and the investigators did not even know.
Let us assume that all of the reports of landings and CE3K are true. Those involved are actually historical figures taking part in historical events...they are worth a paragraph in a UFO magazine or book while those getting the "full treatment" are not as important as the book author.
How the hell does that make any sense? The person who had the encounter is exploited then forgotten while the man/woman writing the book gets all of the accolades and money?
In every case I write about I try to at least add an update on the witness/percipient and each one that passes needs to be remembered. I go for the facts and truth and for me that is all that matters while remembering that those involved are human beings and they have had their world views and lives shattered in many cases and are then left to get on with their lives.
Forget the money making fictions and schemes to exploit the "suckers". Learn about who/what may be behind the UFOs instead.
Saturday, 6 July 2024
Thursday, 4 July 2024
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With 40K views I assume that there are people interested in this aspect of UFOs -and if they are constructed craft then someone/thing has to control them, right?
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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.
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My Encounters With The Men In Black
A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type
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Sunday, 30 June 2024
How Can Anyone Dismiss A Report While Stating They Are Missing Source Material?
Regarding the Elsie Oakenson UFO incident, Patrick Gross on URECAT states:
"Randles states that there was an independent sighting less than two hours after Oakensen's encounter about four miles away: four women, younger than Mrs Oakensen but who did not know of her or her story, and vice versa, were driving through the village of Preston Capes, and saw similar colored lights to those which first alerted Elsie Oakensen and then parallel beams shot from a cloud. Their car began to lose power and the object paced them, until they entered the village lit by streetlamps and the car returned to normal. The UFO lights now merged into one and vanished.
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
What a Mess
Here is a case I am looking at from the UK.
A family about the sit down and watch a popular TV soap receive a phone call from a neighbour. There is a large, bright object over the family's farm. The family member answering the phone looks out and sees the object. At one point the family contact a neighbouring farmer so there are now 6 witnesses. Something happens and there is a disjointed missing time. The family's father arrives home having been alerted and he and a daughter go off in a car to see if they can find the object...by driving in the opposite direction and there MAY have been another missing time episode. There were "ant-like" entities but that is THE description. One woman undergoes hypnosis and the other two are too scared about what happened to try hypnosis.
Multiple witness UFO sighting and one or two(?) missing time episodes.
That is where the investigator left it.
I am not even joking.
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