I had a rather bad, sleepless night but nothing new there! What was new is that I had a very long dream (which means that in reality it was only lasting 1 second!) that was both disturbing and depressing.
In this dream I was trying to track down more details on a "classic" CE3K case. I went to one ufologist who told me they got the account from another. I went to that ufologist who told me that, in fact, he had not investigated the case but it had been mentioned by another ufologist in a book. So I sought out the book, read the account and noted that, up to this point all of those I had spoken to were simply copying word-for-word (or adding the odd extra word because you do not want to be thought of as a plagiarist, do you?).
So, it took a few hours but I tracked down the original ufological source and explained that I was interested in seeing whether there was anything left out of the original account as I had noted a couple odd things in the report. "Oh, I never investigated the case. I heard it from ------ who was told about it by a guy used to come up with all sorts of stories -most of them untrue!"
It was a fake report. A very highly likely hoax used to fill a few lines with sensationalism and, rather than correcting the record so that serious researchers did not waste time, effort and money, this ufologist had allowed the account to become 'fact'. Twice I have spoken to veteran and very well known American ufologists and the line: "Oh, I never investigated the case. I heard it from ------ who was told about it by a guy used to come up with all sorts of stories -most of them untrue!" is a real one. In one case I pointed out to the "highly respected" ufologist that he is given as the original source and was told that he had lifted the item from a website. Oh, and he added: "If you do find the original source and there's more detail do let me know!"
That afternoon I found that I did have the original source for the CE3K -it was a 1930s book of 'real' ghost stories. Did I tell the ufologist? No. The book in question was neither hard to find nor expensive and I found several copies for sale at between £3-7.99 ($5-9 US).
In the last 25 years I have gone through this over and over again. I gave up with "Forteans" because, to be honest, they are just larking about and mostly lie through their teeth and when caught out scream: "It's in the tradition of Charles Fort!" A hobby formed around a man whose intentions may have been good but could be wildly inaccurate in reporting or in reference sources.
Same can be said for "cryptozoology". Look, you want to look for rare or scientifically unknown animals then become a naturalist or zoologist not use a hobby name. Add "Fortean" to "Cryptozoology" and....
With ufology I have to say that I have tried to correct the record. You Tube videos I used to comment on and explain the incident they just claimed was "the most mysterious and unexplained UFO incident ever!" Well, they made a video so they do not want to know that case is a well established hoax. UFO websites (including the ones that use my illustrations without permission on their pages) would be interested, right? No.
Serious (I swear that I am not laughing) ufologists would be because their research depends on full and accurate information and as my late colleague Franklyn Davin-Wilson once wrote: "one piece of bad data will spurt out lots of bad data". But no and the reason is clear; ufology is nothing more than a money-spinning part of the entertainment industry. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in the US has been hit by so many scandals and what serious scientific work is it carrying out and what was its last scientifically presented (if to just ufologists)? It is now a money-making business and firmly seen as part of the entertainment media. The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) has also been hit by scandals and the only difference between BUFORA and MUFON is that MUFON is slicker and makes more money.
A high number of cases -UFO or CE3K- since the mid-1970s in the UK are fake. Deliberate hoaxes by ufologists and even admitted as being deliberate hoaxes -all with the serious intention of messing up British ufology (it was doing the messing up fairly well before them). Before you can accept any UK report -especially CE3K/AE it has to be checked, double checked and triple checked.
Others seriously interested in the subject have finally caught up with what I have been saying for years. People out there do not want the truth. Facts are just not "sexy" enough. As far as most Americans are concerned we live in an almost Dr Who world: Sasquatch, goat-man, lizard-man, demons, dark entities, Black Eyed Kids -like Slender Man a registered trademark and fiction- bullet-proof mysterious animals, vampires and of course the aliens abducting millions each year in conjunction with the US Armed Forces...or being fought by the US armed forces...or...it goes on and on. TV shows like The X-Files, Dark Skies, Supernatural, etc. are fiction.
Now I know all of this so why should one dream affect me so?
Probably because of age for one thing. I started out in 1974 and since then I have found that very few people are really interested in getting to the bottom of mysteries such as UFOs. The idea of a thorough investigation seems to be a novelty. From 1947 right up to the present the favourite method of UFO investigation appears to be via newspaper clippings.
In some cases it has taken me 40+ years to get to the bottom of a report and find an explanation and I doubt that I have 40+ more years to waste.
What is needed is a money-man, let's not beat around the bush with niceties here. There are, supposedly, or so I read and hear, any number of very rich men who have "a very deep interest in UFOs". Subscribing to a journal or two is not that serious an interest!
We need someone, avoiding existing UFO groups who will soak up cash for....nothing. Look at the whole Skinwalker Ranch fiasco; plenty of folk in for the free meals, hotels followed by the books, TV shows and tours that will make me a healthy living (better than actually getting a real job, right?) while producing zero evidence just "Well, we were not here but gosh darn it, wouldn't you know all the stuff was going on after we left (again) -caretaker told us all about it!"
There are decades of reports not investigated. Serious writers and researchers, in the past when such people existed, pointed out that the CE3K/AE reports are probably the most important aspect of UFOs because it is not just another lights-in-the-sky (LITS) report that could be a sighting of anything and tells us zero.
You have a landing of a seemingly constructed craft (UFOB) and entities are sighted or encountered then you have the (possible) controllers of the craft. Now put that into perspective: soak up lots of money that gods know where it goes, and your UFO group presents you with a few LITS reports or you delve into the whole "Grey Abduction Agenda" that will yield zero in the end, unless you need material for your psychological work and twenty years down the line the "Big Event" still has not happened but we learn that the real power behind abductions are species 50 or 51 (and, hey -no one has been given a date for the "Big Event" so it could be decades off still!).
You talk to those people who reported landings and who encountered entities. You look at the reports and try to find a pattern or commonality. If some reports a landing more recently then you get people out to the site and interview them and get as much trace evidence as you can from the landing site. And the trace evidence then needs to be tested by properly equipped labs to see what we can learn. Not money to throw away but money to use for things other than providing free meals.
Where are the "UFO mad" Elon Musks?
If these are extraterrestrial visitors, and we have a lot of anecdotal evidence, then this is cutting edge exobiology. Not broadcasting a radio signal at a point that will take thousands of years to get to "A" from Earth and just as long to receive a signal if "A" had a civilization when the signal reached them. Not aiming telescopes into deep space to see if you can count "possible" planets (but cannot locate large bodies in our own solar system). We are talking, literally, "boots on the ground" and if such a team can prove or even if it can "only" produce very strong evidence that UFOs are controlled craft from elsewhere that puts the financial backer in the history books...the investigators become the footnotes -names miss-spelt included.
I will carry on doing what I do because it is not an "obsession" but a scientific need to learn and find out what is going on.
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