Some Words on a Friday Night

Last month this blog had 3960 visitors while the all time views stand at 33564.  With that kind of interest the lack of book sales on the subject covered here is very disappointing.  Even the AOP Journal that specialises in AE/CE3K encounters can count the number of sales using two fingers!  It's why I stopped with issue 5 because each issue takes a lot of time to put together.

Disappointing as I wrote but it makes it clear that new books on the subject are definitely on the back-burner/cancelled.  

Probably the other biggest disappointment is, I think I have mentioned before, the total lack of cooperation from Ufologists -the AFU in Sweden have been very helpful but I don't think they call themselves Ufologists.  Also, reader feedback or questions -even forwarding details of reports in case I have not recorded them; equally disappointing. 

In Beyond UFO Contact: Aliens From Beyond Time & Space I dealt with the Imjarvi skiers case. That covered nine pages but I really want to expand that at some point because Heinonen's later claims need looking into and they are quite complex. Incidentally, if you speak Finnish and want to help the AFU translate what they have in the archive on this case get in touch.  

Several times I have appealed to readers for suggestions of obscure AE/CE3K reports they have heard of but want to know more about. That request was never answered on any of the occasions but it would be interesting to hear suggestions -catch me to answer while I am still here!!   

If you have any questions then leave a comment BUT I will not answer anonymous people for very specific reasons and lessons learnt the hard way.

The Imjarvi Encounter

 

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The 1970 Imjarvi skiers encounter (see previous post/video is one that has fascinated me since I first heard about it in the 1970s.  Flying Saucer Review published what it wanted and that was that the case was purely a possible extraterrestrial encounter. Anything after that first reporting was ignored.

It never fit in with the what FSR wanted.

To be honest, when I got the old AFU Newsletters back in 1980 I read them. Read them again. Then again and I just thought to myself "Was all this psychological?"  Well, no it was not. The physiological effects, etc., were quite real and at the time I wondered whether there was any time loss involved because there was something missing. . Just reading the account once had me scratching my head as it was similar to watching a 30 minutes long TV show with 10 minutes cut half way through.

As the AFU state; much more information may be in the archive file which is large but everything is in Finnish and Finnish is known as one of the most difficult languages to learn and I have tried over the last couple decades!

The English language information we have from the AFU Newsletter seems strange and bizarre and only came from one of the percipients -Heinonen. This creates problems in that the rather conservative and narrow-minded Ufologists cannot accept the case at all. If they did then they would have to accept Heinonen's later claims. Well, yes but it is not all black and white.

I have written extensively on the psychological impact on percipients of these encounters. I am quite sure in that large Finnish language file there is more information and here we may have one explanation for Heinonen's claims.

The first is that more happened than can be recalled or than is reported in English language sources. If -and this is only speculation as there is no known evidence of this- there was an abduction experience with suppressed memory then what Heinonen later reported could be confused recollections.

The second possible explanation, since Heinonen was the most physically and psychologically affected by what happened and he appears to have tried everything to get help and even later when he hit hard times he was trying to find answers. Society in the 1970s/1980s was certainly not willing or even wanting to help someone injured in a UFO incident. Contacting the Swedish Ufologists he was certainly not being paid for his story.

The way he was affected was Heinonen having some type of post traumatic Stress disorder experiences. Something triggering "flash-back" and creating the new events in his mind.  Certainly Charles Hickson after the 1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi encounter began to make other claims and also began -if true- to drink more heavily. 

When it comes to encounters we are dealing with normal human beings, some who previously joked about and mocked others who had a CE3K experience and these events would be shattering their entire world view and all they thought that they knew. That in itself would have a major psychological impact. Ufologists are mainly getting the money/publicity earning "abduction" story and very rarely even keep in touch with percipients unless to see if "more has happened" ($$$).

The lack of ethics and any type of ethical treatment of percipients I have written on before. The lack of interest in helping percipients with physiological and seeming PTSD after events getting help is commonplace.

I think that any Ufologist who speaks Finnish willing to contact the AFU might find more information but as it stands this is a high strangeness report but as with a lot of such reports Ufology has failed to fully investigate and report on (oh, and American Ufologists need to understand that these events take place around the world not just in the United States).

A terribly scary encounter in the forest

Unexplained close encounter with a UFO in Sweden 1987

The Search for Real UFO Evidence Died Because of Ufologists.

 

i first became interested in UFOs while at school and in 1975 joined the then British UFO Research Association and from that time until I left it was a non-stop struggle to get anyone to take the subject of "Time Loss" (as I termed them) reports and even after Hynek's "legitimising" the subject with his Close Encounters categories it was still a struggle. 

My "crackpot" work (as some called it began back then and it is in its 50th year which is bloody scary.  The files bulge out and I have had to stop adding to them since it seems they are still not taken seriously. 

This is not stamp collecting where you are doing nothing but collecting and certainly my books have not been one of those Year-by-year books with all the errors and hoax cases included. If I look at a report I try to gather as much information as possible before drawing, if I can, any conclusion. 

One thing I have written about before is the collective sit-on-your-ass work conducted by "Ufologists"  -Hickson and Parker had an alleged alien abduction experience in 1973 and in that same week so a number of other people had very close encounters. Ufologists were tripping over each other and grabbing "You're Next" tickets to interview them. The other percipients?  No one wanted to bother. They were all "black" people and, you know, you just had to ignore them. This has happened time and again and shows why Ufology and Ufologists cannot ever be taken seriously as a science or people working in a science.

As more time passes so too do witnesses and percipients who no one spoke to such as those involved in the Eupora incident or Kathy Reeves who must now be in her late 70s?  Once gone we have lost their testimony and that is evidence lost.   And, yes, I have tried repeatedly over 10 years to get someone involved in UFO investigation to follow up these reports as cold cases and every time I hit a brick wall. 

It is frustrating and depressing and quite honestly makes me want to get certain Ufologists and kick them in the ass.

We have to face it; the search for real UFO evidence (not grifter fakery) died because of Ufologists.

The Book Cover

 this was the cover to what would have been volume 5 of the AE/CE3K books

What Do YOU Do?

 Here is a scenario -I know that no one bothers replying so I am not expecting any feedback! 

 You are driving somewhere and along a quiet stretch of the road you see this...  

Then the object seems to blink out of existence and you breath a sigh of relief then this...

What do you do?

About Books

 I posted this over at the AOP blog and it equally applies here so...

 

I was asked so I will respond here. 

"I heard you were working on two other books concentrating on UFO abductions and aliens when are they due out?"

Simple answer: yes, I was working on two other books and did all the research to guarantee that what went into print was accurate and not sensationalist crap like you find in most UFO books theses days.

Never. Is the response to when the books would appear. There are four heavily researched and referenced books that I have already published and those include some never or hardly ever seen before seen photographs.  I think the sales amount to one copy of each book and that despite the many thousands who have seen the posts and various publishing campaigns. Lying and grifting is the only thing makes money. Not facts.

The same applies to the "World mystery" books. I could complete at least another two of those to add to the five already published but sales of those existing are not even making me money (sales dried up about 3 years ago). Again, lying and grifting is all that sells and even including long 'lost' photographs and much more has not gotten any sales.

There have been 624128 views ( 32980 here at the AE CE3K blog) of blog posts and 35,000 views ( some 3960 for this blog) last month and with those kind of figures and world wide readership of people allegedly interested in this stuff no sales are BAD. It is why I gave up researching and posting long original articles (usually stolen by others to put on to their blog to get the credit any way) here. No feedback, no "Hey have you read this?" and no book sales.

So, no. No new books which is a pity but that's life.

My counter question would be: why are you interested when new books are coming out when you have not purchased a copy of any of the others?

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