Patrick Gunn. A name I will remember as he owes me money now.
72 pages. Well, 72 pages ONLY because of the AI images used. Glancing through the book quickly I asked "Why is he using the same image obver and over again?
He isn't. It is the same scene with UFOs in various styles and not that different. The images are a washed up mess and only make the book look amateurish.
The same things is repeated and when I got to page 44 I had no doubts what so ever that this was an AI created book which explains the constant re-use of the images and...uh....the actual incident involving Mary and co. is not described. It literally is just repeat...repeat...repeat and if you are looking for any information from this book here it is:
"The Falkland Hill UFO incident of 9992"..."The psychological impact of the Falkland Hill incident on the local community was profound"...
That's it. Repeat ad nauseum adding whatever word makes it different. That front cover is AI and it is the same used within the book with variations. This at £16+ was an outright case of ...I cannot even use the words I want to. You will NOT find any "in depth" look at the case Like I wrote; by page 45 the constant repeating of phrases and offering no actual case summary or information....I gave up.
In, I believe, minutes 02 point texte at the bottom of the last book is a disclaimer that this was written and put together using AI.
I have sent out 25 messages/emails in under two weeks to local media and so on but zero responses. Out oof desperation I even tried Reddit UFO pages -nothing.
I have now resorted to tracking down paranormal groups.
As it standsbecause of the racist attitude of the original two UFO 'investigators' and reticence of bodies such as MUFON (who I have to say are very hostile in this case) unless there is a miracle what is on record is all there ever will be.
Firstly, the book was not that well written and on several occasions I had t re-read to make sense of something. I will say nothingf of the writing style.
The actual encounter claimed got very confusing in the telling and at one point I had to try to make out if a "third incident" was actaully being written about or referring back to a third incident".
On page 16 it is stated that Mary saw a small dome on top of a huge triangular object. My question is HOW could she see a small domefrom the ground? We also have her stating she saw things closer toi her, such as the entities, which she stated she should not have been able to and she observed things others did not.
On page 23 I added a note: "Unless the people are lying or joking or they are prone to extreme exaggeration" -I later came to a conclusion.
On page 23 Mary notes how she saw a mist coming toward the group....no one else saw this and the mist resembled a cocoon or soap bubble. That is a pure nonsensical description that is not queried.
The late Tony Dodd asked the people involved whether they had found any strange marks on their bodies? After that any and every bruise, mark, stiff joint is reported and highl;ighted and the photograph of Susan's "markls" are not clear in the photograph in the book but thanks to it appearing in colour in a press report it can be said to be unimpressive. A female acquaintance told me "I've had that from my bra!" Not wearing abra myself I could not comment. What I did was ask ladies of my acquaintance whyo told me that they had odd bruises and marks from wearing bras or sleeping in them. So vague marks are in this case not proof of much.
We read that Peter, the son of Mary, observed the floating entity from his bedroom window and his friend saw it, too. We have to take Peter's word on that. In fact, going by what was written on Peter and Mary -particularly Peter- alarm bells should have been ringing and I felt as though the investigators would not have seen or heard the lights flashing, siren blaring fire engine coming before it hit them.
Peter standing up and pointing to an area in front of curtains and stating matter of factly that there were three of the beings there in the presence of the investigators was amusing to a point. The investigators DID take photographs of the spot even though they saw nothing. Standing where the aliens were they were told all Peter could then see was a sort of zig-zag pattern. Peter even matter of factly explained how he woke up one morning and one of the beings was in his bedroom, stood near him while he ate breakfast, was in the taxi with him on the way to school, helped him out in lessons and even took the taxi home with him. Not a word spoken though.
Apparently Mary saw a "shimmering" (like a heat haze in the road) which meant they were there but was uneasy aboput thios so stopped them appearing. On one occasion she allowed a "Grey" to materialise but then stopped it. Mary had read the Whitley Streiber books and seemed very informed on UFOs and also had a ghost dog -oh, and one of her cats had no problem with one of the beings strokinbg it.
The other witnesses seemed to be almost hysterical if we believe the account with Susan (the daughter of Mary's friend -it gets VERY confusing- even screaming at one point that "there's one by my (car) window grinning at me".
Firstly, there are various aspects that can be explained away as every day things being miss-identified and assumed to be "alien". I cannot see how "hundreds of bright spinning lights" or very bright large objects were not seen by anyone else at the time and reported -even based on the area in question it seems unlikely anyone going by would not see them -but not everyone seeing a UFO reports it.
There is just something very off about these sightings and we are talking three incidents in one night. Mary also calling a Ufologist expecting a team to shoot out there as "something strange is going on" made me laugh. Ufologists from my experience either wait until it's all over and safe or drive off ion the opposite direction.
The "many" entities walking about normally, bending over and picking up crates and walking off just like people would really made me ask whether these were pea pickers working at night. These short entities were apparently overseen by a taller, browner entity standing near trees. How tall was he? Half the size of the trees or 15 feet.
Could there have been an actual UFO sighting at the start as they drove to get a jar of coffee? Could have been. Could there have been more to that incident rather than a mere sighting? At first I thought it possible but when we get to Mary and her son Peter things fall to pieces quickly. It is possible that this is a case of hysteria when it comes to everyone else but with the mother and son I think there is far more to it.
In UFO Contact? I outlined what I termed Ruth Syndrome. Taken from a case that appeared in a book by a note psychologist (also a TV play on the BBC starring Connie Booth) about his patient who he called "Ruth". Ruth heard foot steps, saw clearly visible and solid forms -actually proven through tests carried out by a university- and much more. It was later discovered that the father she was estranged from also had similar events in his life. It is quite possible that Mary passed that syndrome down toi her son. Also Mary being into UFOs and having read the Streiber books and seeming quite calm and at ease when her son described the three invisible entities in the room and the one that went to school with him -and also described the "haze"- probably provided an environment where his reality would allow for regular "visitations". These entities never communicated with him I should point out.
Do we have a credible case of UFO abduction or a major UFO incident in the Falkland Hill report? Very low credibility for a sighting.
What I am surprised about is that a Fortean forum which looked at this case never pointed to any of the 3 metre high neon warning signs from the book. In fact, reading the comments on that forum I do not believe anyone there read the book. This is quite typical of Forteans, cryptozoologists and Ufologists who will judge and assess based on newspaper clippings -some Ufologists proudly boasting that IS their investigation.
I had hoped that Malcolm Robinson might have responded to my request for any completed reportor information that might add more weight to the case but he has not.
I am awaiting the second "deep dive" book on this case but to be honest between Mary and Peter and the other information in the book when included in the archive it will be classed as "Low". I had hoped there was more but the witnesses are now all moved on and uncontactable it seems. A pity.
Here is the reason why Ufology failed and why we havve lost so much eye witness testimony -even if only considered anecdotal.
In the last fortnight I have sent out 30 emails or messages. I received one rude response (MUFON) one with no info and...that's it.
We no longer have to wait a week or so for a letter to get somewhere and then another week for a response. We are in an era of instand communication and yet when it comes to cooperation, communication or any other form of interaction nothing happens. And in the United States (the "Home of Ufology") it appears there are no independent investigators or researchers any more -they all want the MUFON crumbs and MUFON just wants the publicity and cash.
We got technology at our finger tips and it created more problems and lack of communication than before the internet.
As noted the case was investigated by Malcolm Robinson and I have asked him whether there is a full report we can get. There is a Fortean forum I was given a link to so I will keep that handy for any later assessment.
Scottish UFO and paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson has experienced many
unexplained encounters during his 40-year career.
They
include being “slapped” by a ghost, seeing a pair of levitating shoes fly up
into the air and crash through a window, and being shouted at by a ghost to get
out of ‘her’ house.
But
whether real, imagined or misinterpreted, the man who started off as a
self-confessed sceptic remains particularly intrigued by Scotland’s most
controversial UFO incident.
What happened?
On
September 23, 1996, two adults, a teenager and a 10-year-old driving near
Newton of Falkland in Fife claimed they saw not only a large black
triangular-shaped ‘craft’ but numerous small grey ‘beings’ in front of woods
The
so-called ‘Falkland Hill UFO Incident’ made international headlines and after
being investigated by several of the UK’s leading UFO experts, UFologists say
it remains one of the world’s biggest ‘unsolved’ UFO mysteries.
(TH: I think that is an exaggeration)
One down-to-earth theory – reported by The Courier on the 20th anniversary in
2016 – is that what witnesses actually saw was simply several pea harvesters
and farm workers operating in the field with their lights shining skyward.
Another
suggestion is that the witnesses who apparently left the area decades ago, and
can’t be traced by the author, simply “made it up”.
However,
having extensively researched the case, and while admitting it sounds
“fanciful”, Mr Robinson remains convinced the witnesses were “sincere” in their
descriptions – even if the mystery remains.
Speaking to The Courier about the launch of
his new book ‘The Falkland Hill UFO Incident’, Mr Robinson said he
felt there was a need for a stand-alone book that told the story “as it is”.
Strange bruises on Susan’s arm. Image: Malcolm Robinson
While Fife has seen many UFO reports over the years, this
particular one “stood head and shoulders above many others” because of its
controversies.
Self-confessed sceptic
Mr
Robinson, now a 65-year-old grandfather and former newspaper advertising
executive, became interested in the strange world of UFOs and the paranormal as
a boy.
Growing
up in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, he read extensively and watched films and TV
shows.
But
as he grew older he felt there was no validity to the claims of ghosts and
poltergeists.
The
aims of SPI are to collect, research, and publish, accounts relating to most
aspects of strange phenomena, and to purposely endeavour to try and come up
with some answers.
In 1992, he became one of the main
investigators for the so-called ‘Bonnybridge Triangle’ multiple UFO sightings.
Working
with local councillor Billy Buchanan, he concluded 95% of the sightings reported
over the Stirlingshire town had identifiable solutions.
The
others, however, were less clear-cut, and they petitioned Downing
Street for answers.
Their call for a government inquiry was turned down because the “objects did
not pose a threat to the security of the UK”.
It
was against this backdrop that he became involved in the Falkland
investigation.
Always
looking for alternative explanations, they’ll check with the likes of police,
the air force, the Met Office and the Ministry of Defence.
(Here the inanity of reporters shows through. I have been interviewed many times over the decades, mainly regardin g my wildlife work. Apart from one occasion I have never given my age or personal details despite all the reasons reporters give for 'needing' to know. We see far more about Robinson than case details -but this is a press story)
In
Newton Falkland, the pea harvester scenario was one of those considered.
However,
having recorded interviews with two of the witnesses in person, Mr Robinson
remains confident that what they experienced that night was “completely
different”.
A ‘fanciful’ Fife story?
“The
story started off that night in September 1996 when they had run out of
coffee,” he said.
“They
left the farm house and they travelled to the wee village of Freuchie
to buy some.
“On the
way to Freuchie, which is bordered by fields on either side, they saw this
large black triangular craft hovering motionless above a part of the farmer’s
field and part of the road.
“Coming
down from beneath this triangular object were two columns of circular light
which was twisting and turning and moving and twisting.
“The
witnesses who were a combination of Mary, her son Peter and Jane – Mary’s
friend (all pseudonyms) – they knew this wasn’t an aircraft and being in
the sky it wasn’t a pea harvester either!
“Then
the object extinguished its lights and flew away.
The shop in Freuchie where the witnesses bought coffee in
1996. Image: Malcolm Robinson
“They
went to Freuchie, got their jar of coffee, and on the way back to the farm
house, the same or similar object flew very very fast above the car.
“In
the car was Peter, 10 years of age. He screamed and screamed. He thought this
thing was going to crash into the car.
“Arriving
back at Jane’s house, Jane said to her daughter Susan who was 16 ‘oh Christ
almighty you’ll never believe what we’ve just seen on the road there!’
“Susan
refused to believe her mother, but to pacify her, she said ‘right ok, let’s go
back out’.
“The
four of them jumped into the car, and cutting a long story short here, as they
drove between Falkland and Newton of Falkland, they saw to the left hand side
coloured rays of light – red, blue and green coming up from the forest floor.
“In
the sky, there were hundreds and thousands of tiny pinpricks of white light
like stars – only these were about 1000 feet up from their heads.
“Above
Falkland Hill, there was a large orange ball that was sitting there above the
hill. It was like sparkly, emitting electrical stuff.”
Acknowledging
that it “sounds bizarre”, Mr Robinson said the story, as he was told it, then
got even more controversial.
The
witnesses stopped the car, and in front of the forest there was a “long column
of blue light”.
In
front of the blue light, there were “hundreds of small grey creatures bending
down and picking up boxes of cylinders and taking them towards a larger
structured object which was nestling in a wee alcove in the woods”.
To
the right were “taller grey beings” and there was a “ball of immense white
light” sitting in the farmer’s field.
“At
this point,” said Mr Robinson, “they claim that there were these small
creatures roughly 3.5 to four feet tall with small childlike bodies, large
pear-shaped heads, black almond-shaped eyes, encased in these bubbles beings
being blown across the farmer’s field towards the car.
“At
this point, Susan who was Jane’s daughter screamed.
“She said: ‘Mum there’s one standing outside the car!’
“At
that point, they put the car into gear and screamed away from the area. As they
did so a tremendous burst of blue light pervaded the whole area – a massive big
blue flash.”
Overcome by curiosity
Mr
Robinson said he was told how rather than hiding away in the farmhouse,
curiosity got the better of them and they went out again.
More
or less the same scenario unfolded, he was told – only this time, Jane
controversially claimed that while looking at some of the creatures in the
woods, she felt her head being “pushed down towards the front of the
car”
She
claimed she was being ‘taken’ and that she ‘saw this strange land’.
Mr
Robinson admits this all sounds “fanciful”.
However,
things got even more peculiar when, while interviewing the witnesses with his
colleague Billy Devlin some months later, the boy Peter claimed there were
three creatures standing outside the window while the mother Mary said she
could see a “shimmering”.
Needless
to say, Mr Robinson and his colleague could see nothing, but they took photos
anyway.
They
were also told of other sightings by other witnesses in the area over the
course of several weeks – including a “big triangular craft that floated across
Mary’s roof"
Witnesses
claim they saw a triangular craft near Newton of Falkland. Image: Malcolm
Robinson
Peter’s
son also claimed a small creature “materialised in front of him” while having a
bath.
On
another occasion, Peter and a boy were playing in the bedroom when the visitor
looked out of the window and saw a “little white creature free floating”.
“They
also had poltergeist effects in the farm house,” added Mr Robinson.
“They
had a cat in the house. They were all having breakfast one morning and they
heard lapping of the water from the cat’s bowl thinking ‘it’s just the cat’.
“They
looked down and all they could see was the bowl – no cat – and the water being
displaced by an imaginary or invisible creature.
“So
there’s more to this story than the UFO.”
Unable to track down witnesses today
Mr
Robinson said they’d tried but failed to track down the witnesses over the
years to “back-up the validity and honesty” of their statements.
He
understands Mary and her family moved to Wales about a year after.
The
move, he understands, was planned before this incident.
Researchers
like him “don’t want to have the wool pulled over their eyes” because sadly, he
says, people do make things up.
But
what is clear is that unexplained activity has been recorded worldwide since
early times.
“The
Fife UFO incident is very very controversial,” he added.
“It’s
probably one of Scotland’s
most bizarre if not craziest stories that I’ve encountered. It stands the test
of time though. We still don’t know what truly went on.”
A few points: it has been suggested that the colour lights over the forest was the aurora borealis: In September 1996, auroral activity in Scotland was generally low. Because the sun was near the minimum of its 11-year solar cycle, geomagnetic storms and visible Northern Lights were rare and limited to occasional faint arcs over northern Scotland and the Shetland/Orkney islands rather than widespread, vibrant displays.
The object might be pea harvesters? These are and were not exactly quiet so the people here should have heard something.
According to accounts the son observed an entity on a roof top that went up in the air. Then he saw the same entity when he WALKED into the bathroom when it vanished. If this is a genuine event then it could well be that this was psychological -a mental flash back to something that happed which was traumatic.
The family moved away from the area "decades ago" which makes no sense the event took place in 1996 which was 27 years before the press item but Robinson had interviewed the family in Fife after the event so this needs clarification.
I wiull await the bopoks and whatever else comes to hand for a later assessmenbt.
I have been looking at the Vodovoz alleged abduction case and have found that all Ufologists have on it is a video interview. Online Ufologists and idiots with blogs cite the case but get the first name wrong -is it Cindy or Cynthia? Surname-is is Valadez or Vodov or Vodozov?
All quote the same source but here is the thing: not one of them has read that source. At the moment I am trying to access said source and then we'll see exactly what is what.
Then (when it comes to Eupora, 1973) we have the comical situation of MUFON not wanting to investigate an old case because "it's would just be a story" and yet MUFON has built up its finanaces on...stories, fake events and much more.
I have tried every Ufologist in the US I can and even "paranormal" investigators. None interested in what could turn into a major historical case. News media and radio as well as podcasters -absolutely no interest.
I have appealed online -my blogs and even (this is how desperate it gets) Reddit. Nothing. If this was in the UK I would be taking a train to the location and asking questions and doing online searches for the witnesses -the current U.S. administration has made it more difficult for those outside the States to access online data.
I would say that when screaming out "Science won't take us seriously!" a Ufologist should be looking in a mirror.
Lucia Gillot, 61, recalls her unforgettable encounter with a
mysterious figure on the LlŷnPeninsula- Lorne Campbell/Guzelian
For those who don't know:The Llŷn Peninsula is a peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, with an area of about 400 km², and a population of at least 20,000. It extends 30 miles into the Irish Sea, and its southern coast is the northern boundary of the Tremadog Bay inlet of Cardigan Bay.
Lucia Gillot, 61, recalls her unforgettable encounter with a
mysterious figure on the LlŷnPeninsula - Lorne
Campbell/Guzelian
Do aliens exist? Few debates have proved as enduring – or as
divisive – as the question of whether there is life beyond Earth.
‘I felt like it wanted to approach us – we ran like hell’
Lucia Gillot was 17 when she came face to face with
something she still cannot explain. On a late-night walk in 1982 near her
family’s second home near Nefyn, on the LlŷnPeninsula
in North-West Wales, she saw a mysterious figure.
“My friend and I had driven out late at night to a remote
stretch of countryside for a walk,” she says. “We parked up and started down
this narrow lane, barely wider than a car.” The road ran straight ahead before
dipping gently out of sight. About 100 yards away, she saw something
approaching. “It looked like Darth Vader, but with really long arms that hung
below the knee. They looked like tubes with a soft, white fluorescent glow.
They didn’t bend. They just swayed.”
This strange sighting couldn’t be put down to alcohol, as
Gillot and her friend were “completely sober.”
The being, she recalls, was coming directly towards them.
And although they could hear heavy footsteps, it appeared to be floating. “My
friend tried to reassure me,” says Gillot. “He said, ‘Don’t worry, Lou, I’ve
got my Stanley
knife!’”
The pair remained frozen for two minutes until headlights appeared
from behind the figure. As the beams swept forward and caught the being in
their glare, it vanished.
The lane was bordered by high hedges on both sides. There
was nowhere for the figure to go, so Gillot believes it must have “disappeared”
into thin air.
“There was no sense that it was trying to catch us, but I
felt like it wanted to approach us,” she says. Still spooked after it vanished,
the two ran “like hell” back to the car and quickly drove away.
Now 61 and living in Derbyshire, Gillot has never forgotten
– or been able to explain – the encounter. “It’s something that always stuck
with me, but I never talked about it until now”, she says.
“I would define an alien as something that is not of this
earth. That being definitely wasn’t of this earth. A few years ago, I came
across a book [The Uninvited: The True Story of Ripperston Farm by Clive
Harold] about a family in the same area who kept getting alien visitations. I
felt it supported my experience.”
Despite her eerie encounter, Gillot isn’t disturbed by the
prospect of alien life. “I sense that the ETs are looking out for us”, she says.
Apparently if you belong to MUFON you cannot investigate nnything unless "mummy and daddy say so". I contacted SW MUFON UFO UAP Investigation and told them about the Eupora case. It would be aq cold case and this is what I got in response:
Well, MUFON are not interested and got nasty to get out of doing anything and so it seems the SW MuFON people are just not intertested as well. They are NOT allowed to inbvestigate any case unless their MUFON bosses say so.
We can only investigate officially submitted MUFON cases but we have many folks who would love to help you out if you submit the report - regardless of if you do or don't have evidence and we can only investigate cases submitted by the actual witnesses you can't submit someone else's sighting or contact if must be what you saw does this make sense?
Yes it makes sense. MUFON is a shambles of an organisation and its investigators appear to have been turned into mindless drones.
I have run out of options in the US/Mississippi so it lo0oks like the full details of what happened in 1973 are lost. I have contacted local news papers, radio and am not hopeful.
All because of initial racial prejudice
That written I was polite in my response:
Yes, I understand but this is potentially a major old UFO incident for which we know the names of some of the witnesses and those are the people that I have tried to trace. I was not there but the case is on the record from the time and was, admittedly, ignore because the witnesses were black. I just cannot understand the lack of willingness to look into an old case but willingness to ignore and lose the data. Thanks anyway.
The response was:
We take UFO reports from people who have seen UFOs. Without
an eye witness coming forward there's nobody to interview. We don't track
people down and ask them if they are willing to talk about their experiences.
there are many UFO podcasters who also investigate - such as
The Curious Realm, if the case is of interest they could do a show about it and
renew interest
If you want to reach out to witnesses and encourage them to
make a report, please do
a case that old would have no evidence, we couldn't go to a
location and gather evidence, and if the witnesses aren't coming forward to
tell their story and give eyewitness testimony, it's just a story.
Which means people have to run to MUFON or be ignored and that, even with names MUFON will NOT try to trace people involved in what could be amajor old incident. "it's just a story" seems like an excuse to not deal with a CE3K since MUFONs whole approach to the subject is Grey abductions and making even old non Grey cases Grey cases>
It's over 30 years since I asked Wal;t Andrus Jr, then head of MUFON what solid evidence they had gathered over the years. His response (letter still in a file) "No such thing". Let's see what a search asking what hard evidence MUFON has gathered since then finds:
"The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has collected thousands of witness reports, photos, and videos. However, they have not gathered any universally accepted, independent scientific evidence of alien spacecraft.
"While MUFON investigates potential physical clues, the mainstream scientific community views their methods and findings as pseudoscience rather than hard proof."
I know several people who left MUFON because of how it works. The criticisms can be found online so not a subject here. Ted Philips' Physical Trace Evidence is often cited and I tried many times before his death and after to get any papers revealing the evidence. The online catalogue you can find is basically a list of reports and traces -some well known even in the 1970s as hoaxes. The same applies to the much lauded Jacques Vallee Landing Cases Catalogue. Budd Hokins and David Jacobs have all had their work on abductions proven to be made up or based on personal theories.
MUFON accepts al;l of the above and even had these people as guests and presenting their work which was never questioned.
So plkease excuse me if I feel that MUFON is full of hobbyist trying to pretend they are on X File episodes and gathering solid evidence while ignoring cases even more recent than Eupora. It's online Report a UFO site is full of unstabstatiated reports from anopnymous people but they cite these (mainly uninvestigated) reports as "evidence" for UFO reality.
Where are the REAL UFO investigators?
I have tried local radio stations and news outlets as well as podcasters but so far not even a glimmer of interest.
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