Are there good "solid" cases ?

 I have written four books solely dealing with the much ignored aspect of UFOs -Close Encounters of the Third Kind and alien Entity encounters - UFO Contact? Looking at the Evidence for Alien Visitation, Unidentified - Identified: UFO Crashes & Alien Entity Encounters, Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? and Beyond UFO Contact -Aliens from Mind, Time and Space.  My previous three books Some Things Strange and Sinister and Some More Things Strange and Sinister and Pursuing The Strange & Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint also included chapters on such cases.

To add to this I published five issues of The Anomalous Observational Phenomena (AOP) Journal and these dealt with little known or some original cases of CE3K/AE. By all accounts, if I go by feedback from people who have read them, they were "groundbreaking" and "a fresh breath of air sorting fact from fiction" and so on and so forth (I'll not use any more quotes as that would be rather egotistical).

Each book is thoroughly researched and sources are fully listed and images -sketches, photos, maps etc- are ones most people have not seen before or were considered "no longer existing" or "lost" and the clue here as to how I found them is that I carry out research -original research and do not cut and paste like most modern authors. 

So, with an estimated (by someone who looked through all my social media to get post view stats etc) 1 million views of posts on the books why are they not selling? Yes, people today do not read and get most of their fake 'facts' from the internet (where bloggers happily use my clearly copyrighted illustrations without credit) and You Tube. Even up to the mid 1990s before the internet really kicked in books like these as well as, say, John Hanson's Haunted Skies UFO history books (very unique) would have sold like  crazy. Not any more it seems.

One problem may be that certain factions in Ufology have painted me as a debunker and some even state buying my books would be a waste of money. These comments come from people I can 100% guarantee have only ever seen the cover of one of my books online and I know (I am the seller after all) that they have never purchased a copy of any of the books or AOP Journals. What is going on?

Firstly, these people have a vested interest in putting down other authors because they want people to keep buying their books.  Secondly, in Ufology you either "believe" in UFOs or "Disbelieve" and that is certainly not scientific principles at work. It is a case of looking at the case reports then looking at the debunkers then pro supporters of cases and I made no secret of the fact that with UFO Contact? I decided that once and for all I would totally destroy/explain away CE3K events and then I could retire after decades of studying that aspect -comi9ng up to 50 years now that should give a clue here as to what happened.

I took a world-wide look at cases since this is a world-wide phenomenon and not just confined to the United States! I decided to go through my archives and re-assess reports. I found that I could grade them by various criteria such as single witness, single witness with third party back-up, multiple witnesses and multiple witnesses with back up independent testimony. Then there were other aspects that required more evidence such as physical traces -not necessarily a guarantee that a UFO seen was a "craft" but based on the percipients' there would seem to be no other explanation. 

I have noted this before but if a single witness claims an encounter with a UFO and entities it can be explained away (and the people involved are NOT mad). But if you have a single percipient in the countryside who has a "brief" encounter but that is unknown to people witnessing a "UFO" shooting off from that encounter area then that is secondary back up. If the percipient is found by someone and has collapsed and suffers "mental shock" and physiological after effects then you have to explain all of this away.

Now, say you have three people in a car driving along a rural road at night after a pleasant evening out and they are suddenly chased by a "UFO"; they lose time and afterwards exhibit mild radiation poisoning, post traumatic stress and much more how do you exp-lain that? If someone (or several persons)  unconnected with those three people report UFOs over the area and even spotting a car (that of the percipients and before the case was even known about)  being chased by a UFO how do you explain that all away?

People do not take casual walks in the countryside or through forests and end up with amnesia, eye damage and radiation sickness -and when the nearest nuclear facility (if there is one in the country itself) is hundreds of miles away how do you explain it away?

There are cases that can be explained away and that can be done without resorting to claims by debunkers who fake things as much as Ufologists do. I did check the debunking claims in some cases and one after another they fell apart when it was proven that facts had been twisted, omitted or fake aspects added. 

Here is the thing that people do not like. You HAVE to either say "aliens!" or jump into the camp of fakers like Jacques Vallee and his followers and claim interdimensional or fairy folk origins. They use a non fact -dimensions and the multiverse have not been scientifically proven so are convenient to use as people assume they have been proven. Or you can claim "It's all bunk!" 

I have been asked about my opinion on the origin of the seemingly constructed craft? Well, as an historian I know that nothing like them was built by humans and certainly not in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or later. 

So they are alien, right? Here's where I annoy people. Even with all of the physical evidence and testimony  that cannot be said. Percipient testimony as well as that by others is "anecdotal evidence" (in the past in criminal cases that caused more than a few people to be wrongly imprisoned or executed). Physical traces and radiation sickness etc cannot be explained away but it is still not proof of alien visitation. I have to remain open minded and study the facts and investigate so whatever I may think or feel has no relevance: I present the facts and if a case passes all of the checks and investigations then it has a high credibility rating but each reader has to decide for themselves and it is not my place to tell anyone what to think.

This is a world-wide phenomenon and I think that I have satisfactorily shown that so called "UFO waves" are anything but -they consist of natural phenomena, misidentifications, genuine unknows and more -Ufology has failed to investigate 97% of UFO reports or CE3K reports since 1947 and personal biases affect those they do investigate.

So which of the "classic" cases passed the checks? Are there good "solid" cases from outside the United States? Well, the answer to the second question is definitely "yes there are". The answer to the first question: buy the book(s) and see -before they are withdrawn in 2024 and will only be found in archives after that.

It all depends whether you think independently to form your own opinion based on evidence. Never listen to rumours from people who have never read the books they criticise!