Disproving Alien Abductions Proves They Happen?

There can be very little doubt that the current Covid19 pandemic has proven that the pop culture alien abduction phenomenon publicised by the late Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs et al is all trash.

Now before you go on a raging moan about "bloody debunkers" I should point out that I am not a debunker but a sceptic. In other words You claim it then prove it. Every aspect of the (formerly known as) "The Grey abduction agenda" has fallen to pieces when looked at in any detail. Someone claims to have been abducted in a busy cioty park with no one noticing the space craft or aliens because "their technology enables them to 'cloak' and no one can see them".

In UFO Contact? I looked at "Ruth Syndrome" -this is not a name you will find in any medical book but one I used based on a fairly well documented case that was, I discovered, not that rare and other cases were known but never publicised- and I think that this explains many cases of "life long alien abductions".  Ruth Syndrome does not carry any stigma with it because....well, read the book!

With Ruth Syndrome you are looking at something that cannot be used to explain away incidents involving 2+ individuals. Nor can it explain away reports from persons who saw "a UFO" from a distance at the spot where an abduction was claimed to have taken place. It cannot explain R-V (radar-visual) reports at the time of a claimed abduction. It cannot explain away physical traces in the area of such an alleged incident.

When all of those factors are pulled together the debunker (a classic example being the late Philip J. Klass) goes for absolutely anything negative they can discover about a percipient. They had a conviction for an unpaid traffic violation...so, they have a criminal mind-set (even if circumstances at the time made them forget about the ticket) so lying about being abducted by aliens is nothing to them if they can make a few bucks.  If nothing negative turns up then you can offer bribesa to people who know the abductee to say they believe it was all faked or just say anything negative about them. Even offering the actual person involved money to recant their "story" -Klass was a perfect case study in these areas.  Klass was not above writing damning letters about someone to ruin (or try to) their careers over UFOs. Petty minded and vindictive he undoubtedly was and whether this was through fear that the accounts might be true or not only he could really say.  Of course, astronomer Donald P Menzel was also a debunker.  Yet these are the people whose 'facts' are quoted so often by astronomers when asked about UFOs (if they can stop the dopy grinning and snickering long enough).

Debunkers and Debunker-hangers on.

What a sceptic does is look at someone's claim and background. Okay, unpaid traffic ticket but any record of falsifying statements to the police or in general? No? Move on because genuine abductees tend to not want to publicise what happened publicly (that usually -99% of cases- comes about because of the ufologists involved) and certainly no such person has ever "made it rich" from their accounts.

There are physiological and psychological effects involved in many cases that can lead to long term physical health problems as well as psychological conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These should all receive long term support from ufology but do not: the only interest is in getting the most publicity and financial reward from a case. However, it is important that a percipient(s) past history is looked at: have they a history of seeing ghosts or strange lights or have they believed they could communicate with the dead, etc -factors that should raise red flags.

"Sex with ghosts" appears to have become a rather popular subject in recent years -a few cases turned up in the past such as when the Birmingham group UFOSIS asked for my opinion (in the 1970s I was the only person in the UK specialising in alien-entity and "CE3K" cases) on one such case. It is what led me to look into accounts in more detail.

In UFO Contact? I list cases that I consider have enough physical or anecdotal evidence to tell us "something" took place. Even -these are rarely accepted by me though I do note them- cases involving an individual encountering an entity but only because other people in the area witnessed an object as described or found physical traces at the site in question. The witness also tended to suffer from shock brought on by witnessing "something".

The point is that only the people involved in the incidents were involved in the encounters -they were the percipients. Not you. Not me. Even they cannot say where the entities they encountered came from -only what they might have been told. With no support over the years they try to piece things together to make sense of what happened. A lot of emphasis was put on the "star map" Betty Hill saw yet she made it clear that she could only remember parts of it -it was not a complete star map even if ufologists want you to think so.

An astronomer once said to me: "And what about the Hill alleged star map?" to which I responded: "What about it? One percipient saw it and made it perfectly clear that they could not recall all of it so it is not evidence"  He seemed rather annoyed -I think that was his big argument against the case. If anyone mentions the "Hill Star Map" to me -a debunker or ufologist- I tell them that it has no significance because it has no significance. Look at the other aspects of the case instead.

If I am honest then I have to make a declaration. I picked the "best" cases I could find and decided that once and for all I was going to disprove them all. There was so much information out there and some of it unpublicised and if I could prove Case A delusional, a hoax or even a joke gone wrong it meant it could be ignored as anything other than reference in future. I spent two years of intense research (I've been doing this since 1975 so I had a lot of records already) and on several occasions I was arguing with myself that I must have missed something.

One case I doubted passed my checks. No, no, no that was not right. Go back to the original source. Double and triple check it and any statements by the percipient....at one point my sister (in another room) asked "What are you swearing about now?"  I was swearing because I could not disprove the account. I even went to the debunkers claims, most falling to pieces quickly because a lot of twisted truths and outright lies and misquotes were used.  I got the original case files where I guessed I would find all the red flags I expected. Nothing.  I tried every explanation I could come up with but by accepting them I would need to be going by things I made up that were not featured or mentioned.

What do you do if you try everything to disprove a case but it still passes -it cannot be shaken (even 50 years after the event)?  Well, I cannot say "It was aliens" because I was not there. Not even the percipients could say extra-terrestrials were involved but guessed that because it was the only thing fitting (in their minds) what happened. Certainly, decades later, no technology or craft as witnessed in these incidents has appeared and been identified as being man-made by the United States or former Soviet Union (despite the claims).

It has to be recorded as "Unsolved -Possibly Genuine" because that is what the known facts tell us.

I even went back to the very beginning several times. I scoured astronomical, aeronautical -any records I could (not referencing UFOs) to find something that might fit and offer an explanation: nothing. All the facts in cases put together -after separate examination- left me stumped. I had looked at everything from debunkers claims to claims by vindictive scorned ufologists and even the ufologists involved in the cases (and set a few records straight that they passed over). Nothing. In effect the final work was a failure as far as what I had intended it to be. If it looks like a cat, Behaves like a cat. Scratches like a cat then it is 100% confirmed to be a cat. We know cats. People have studied cats.

Scientists as a whole have not studied UFO reports and if they have, in many cases, it is because they have an agenda of some type. The French have a policy of investigating UFO reports as I detailed in Contact: Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? wherein I also detail cases from other parts of the world some not having been puvblished in the English language before. That book, as well as Unidentified -Identified also let me focus in on seemingly unconnected sightings/encounters and "abductions" around the world -again many not publicised in English before and some quite obscure- whereion the descriptions of the entities involved match up to a high degree.

Almost 50 years after starting in this whole UFO business and becoming very sceptical I have now found myself -and I am not a ufologist- confronted by reports that seem to defy explanation. If asked "Do you believe that these people were abducted or encountered aliens?"  I would have to respond:

"In many cases those involved do not know who or what they encountered. In some cases they are led to believe that they have encountered aliens -as they were told by the entities. In many cases itis the only explanation they think fits what happened to them. I was not there. I have never encountered an alien life-form. I am left with cases that have no apparent rational explanation. Youeither accept what percipients claim or do not. I was not there."

Not a cop-out statement really as it explains how things stand.

It is reported that a number of claimed alien abductees have died during the current pandemic. Their 'alien' abductors just letthem die. "They" are here to help us but do not step in when a pandemic hits and many, many thousands die?  Seems to be a very disinterested attitude.

All of the evidence we have seems -seems- to suggest that if any aliens are abducting humans then they are one off events.  However, based on the study I carried out, it seems very likely that there are many cases not reported for fear of ridicule or because those involved have seen how ufology and the media treats those who come forward and how "confidentiality" is thrown aside when media publicity and money rear their heads.

Eupora, USA, 1973: multiple witness observed landing of one object while another object hovered. The near landing (?) involved an entity sighting and a description of it I have not come across before. All on a US Interstate at the height of a UFO "wave". A case any reseracher would wantto get into or investigate. UFO investigators were in the region but never investigated. All the known observers were "black".  In 2019 MUFON became insulting and flatly refused to even look into the event as a cold case. No TV coverage. No media of any kind...no money in it. A known of but totally lost multi-witness event.

That is what ufology is.

Nasa funds major new search for signs of life elsewhere in the universe

Article by Andrew Griffin of The Independent. My comments follow:

Nasa is funding a major new search for alien life elsewhere in the universe.

The project – which is being run by scientists at Harvard and the University of Rochester – will scan the skies for signs of life known as technosignatures. Those are indications of alien technologies, which would be revealed to us either on purpose or by accident.

The research is the first time in three decades that Nasa has given a grant to look for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and the first time it has ever tried to do so without looking for radio technosignatures.

Researchers believe that while life elsewhere in the universe may look very different, it is likely to be identifiable by similar signatures as those given off by life on Earth. As such, they hope that they will be able to spot indications that alien civilisations elsewhere are using the kind of technology we are already using, or could theoretically use in the future.

"Technosignatures relate to signatures of advanced alien technologies similar to, or perhaps more sophisticated than, what we possess," said Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard. "Such signatures might include industrial pollution of atmospheres, city lights, photovoltaic cells (solar panels), megastructures, or swarms of satellites."

Astronomers believe that the search could have more success than in the past because humanity has made great strides in finding worlds elsewhere in the universe, and understanding whether they could serve as home to life elsewhere. With those discoveries, researchers should now be able to know more accurately where they should be looking.

"The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has always faced the challenge of figuring out where to look. Which stars do you point your telescope at and look for signals?" said Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, and the primary recipient of the grant. "Now we know where to look. We have thousands of exoplanets including planets in the habitable zone where life can form. The game has changed."

At first, the researchers will look for two main signatures: solar panels, and pollutants. Both represent key and identifiable ways that humanity has changed the Earth, and so any alien civilisation might do the same.

It is likely that other civilisations would look to harness the energy of their sun as they look for new ways to power their technology, for instance. If that was done in the form of solar panels, we might be able to see reflections being sent through the universe.

"The nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, hosts a habitable planet, Proxima b. The planet is thought to be tidally locked with permanent day and night sides," said Loeb. "If a civilization wants to illuminate or warm up the night side, they would place photovoltaic cells on the day side and transfer the electric power gained to the night side."

Likewise, the chemicals released as any alien civilisation builds its infrastructure is likely to be possible to pick up. By looking for chemicals that are unlikely to be produced naturally, we might be able to see that sign across the universe." End

The problem of "solar panels sending their reflections thoughout the universe" is that you are using the universe as your sandbox. Chris Baraniuk in a post on BBC Earth on 13th June 2016 gave this quote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20160610-it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe#:~:text=Today%20we%20are%20fairly%20confident,billion%20light%20years%20in%20diameter.

"Today we are fairly confident that the Milky Way is probably between 100,000 and 150,000 light years across. The observable Universe is, of course, much larger. According to current thinking it is about 93 billion light years in diameter"

In 40 years time we will -or you might- hear "We've not found anything yet but...."

Firstly, what if an extra terrestrial civilisation does not want to light up its planet at night? If they do it may well be that they have power sources we cannot imagine and use those to light up any cities or areas it needs to. Don't get me wrong; it is one thing to look for and after all but what if they detect "something" because as most prominent astronomers like to say as part of their mantra:"It's anything but aliens"   Odd signals: "It's anything but aliens".

My favourite part of this is: "...the chemicals released as any alien civilisation builds its infrastructure is likely to be possible to pick up" which means that if you are very -VERY- lucky and everything is just about "peachy" they might possibly detect the chemicals. But there is still going to be that quote "It's anything but aliens".

The number of people in the astronomical and space community who are terrified of confirming any form of alien life from microbe to higher (microbe is "meh. Possibly acceptable" -and that we know from findings in our own solar system.

People have this idea, possibly brought about by the various planetary charts they have seen since childhood, that you leave Earth and it is a straight line to Mars, then Jupiter, then Saturn and so on. Almost as though the route from Mercury to Pluto (there, I wrote it) is a straight line -an interplanetary highway of sorts. It isn't. Neither is the universe linear: Earth is a grain of sand somewhere in 85 million tons sandbox.

"At least astronomers are trying" someone might say. However, they are looking into deep space -93 billion light years of it. We know that with radio signals you can expect them to take many thousands of years to get to the target "area" of space. Say a civilisation picks up that signal? It will take thousands of years to get the response. We mioght not still be here -in fact scientists say they have sent signals to areas where any intelligent life may have ceased to exist.

If I type a letter then put it in an air-tight sealed container and bury it ten feet (3m) somewhere in the Somerset countryside, miles from any buildings and with no signs indicating where it is located....how long will it be before anyone finds the container let alone reads the letter?  Welcome to sending signals into space.

To put it bluntly, we know sod-all about our own solar system. Asteroids skip past us without being detecyted until a few days before. I am sure that the money given to this new "search" could go toward an asteroid defence system. Or, perhaps we ought to concentrate on probing the planets of our system before probing deep space?

Oumuamua showed just how astronomers and scientists can get hysterical -arguing, fighting and name-calling and all done publicly because they must have their five minutes (and it might lead to some profitable TV work, know what I mean?). Ufologists...I exclude from any debate on the subject as even now they are still using the PAINTING of what Omuamua might look like as though it was an actual photo -and they are picking up details on it!

In my book Contact -Encounters with Extra-Terrestrial Entities I wrote about why the French space agency has a unit that looks at UFO reports and the French have investigated and catalogued many UFO cases since the 1950s. Had such open policies been adopted in the UK, United States, Soviet Union/Russia we might be far more enlightened today.

I do NOT believe that an alien space craft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, definitely never did at Aurora. There was no UFO crash near Nottingham, UK in the 1980s and that was proven beyond a doubt. Rendlesham Forest never saw a UFO crash. The whole "Grey alien abduction phenomenon" as made into a pop culture thing by Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs using very dubious data is just that -a modern pop culture myth. And I write that know that there are certain cases that seem genuine (but do not involve "Greys").

Any intelligent lifefrom elsewhere watching Earth is not going to want to make any open contact. Our best chances of encountering any intelligent life is in near space. Signalling and searching for signals in nearer solar systems -forget the next galaxy over. We need a large number of small probes that can send out a repeatable signal but also listen for such signals. 

I would not expect official government bodies to do that (just the mere discussion as to the name of an advisory panel and all the ego pushing would take years. It needs someone with a lot of money and aerospace interest to do this and cut through red tape.Look at Elon Musk and his Starlink satellite system.

I hate to say it but this new search seems to be yet another "free meal-ticket for life" venture that professional astronomers love to get.

Unfortunately, I do not have thousands of years to wait and see if "anything" might be detected. 

New Book

For some daft reason my mind has forced me into working on another Ms.

This one is preliminary titled: Exobiology, UFOs and the Aliens. Started this afternoon and am now on page 23.

However, as there appear to be no new UFO entity cases emerging anywhere I'll need to draw on my files.

Anyone Know of Any?

I know I waste my time with these appeals but I was always told I was appealing...

Ahem

If anyone knows of any largely unreported pre 1990 alien entity/CE 3K encounters from the UK could they please let me know. I have extensive files so date, location and witness name ought to stop anyone wasting their time as I can check the AOPB files first.

I can be contacted via the AE/CE3K Face Book page or AOP Bureau Face Book Messenger or aopbureau@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you.

The Kathy Reeves Encounter & Reeves Farm Events 1966 -A Call To UFO Investigators

As time passes we lose more eye witnesses and I would ask that any serious investigator look into this report before the witnesses have all gone.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Alien Entity Project

Terry Hooper-Scharf

Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau (1977)

AOPMAR1966/Reeves

1966 4th Of July Parade Street Scene Newport Oregon Kodachrome Slide Ref L-B

The Kathy Reeves Encounter & Reeves Farm Events

On the night of April 5, 1966, a 16-year-old witness named Kathy Reeves was allegedly walking along with her friend on a secluded dark road in the small city of Newport, Oregon, when they got the sudden, unmistakeable feeling that they were being followed and watched. The two girls assumed it was just someone messing around trying to scare them, which was made clearer when they thought they could see a dimmed flash-light beam bobbing about behind them.

They picked up their pace and even tossed rocks behind them at the unseen follower, but the feeling that someone was lurking in the darkness behind them did not abate, and when they turned around at one point what they thought had been a simple flash-light suddenly erupted into a brilliant beam of incandescent light far beyond what would be expected, which was then joined by more spears of brightness jutting from the night to converge upon them. Squinting through the glare, they claimed that they could make out a large, dome-shaped object some distance off that seemed to be wreathed in some sort of fog or smoke.

The now terrified girls began to run as fast as they could towards home, but as they did their path was blocked by three unearthly creatures the likes of nothing they had ever seen. The entities were described as being headless and armless, and as looking like mobile tree stumps that moved about on what resembled spider legs and which were dressed in some sort of multi-coloured cloth. The creatures thankfully did not seem to pay too much attention to the witnesses, instead scurrying across the road to scamper off out of sight towards the inscrutable dome, which still flickered in the dark behind them.

The case attracted quite a lot of media attention at the time, and was covered in both Jim Brandon’s Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, as well as Jerome Clark’s Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings, but no further reports have ever been recorded of these enigmatic stump-like beings, leaving us to wonder just what they could have possibly been, if anything.

In fact, again, Clark is simply quoting from Brandon. The question is: who investigated this report? Inference is that the Sheriff talked to Reeves –and the other witnesses?- but if UFO investigators were involved I have to ask why every single recounting of this incident is basically word-for-word the same. I can give a list of ten sources without even going into my files and that would be pointless because it is all the same.

Location of Newport in Oregon 

All the same unless you read J. Francyl Howard’s Weird Phenomena At Toledo, Oregon, USA that was published in The UFO Register (Contact UK) volume 5, nos. 1 & 2, 1974 pp. 55-56. Howard begins his piece with these words: “During the early days of 1972…” My initial reaction was to ask “Two cases involving a person with the name Kathy Reeves?” The phenomena described by Howard is interesting and seems to border more on something akin with lights seen at ‘Marley Woods’ or the Skinwalker Ranch –but far more intense. There are other problems, however.

Howard must have surely carried out some research? His is the only account that I have come across that states the Reeves events started in 1972 –seven years after the date given by everyone else: April/Spring, 1966. It is worth giving Howard’s account as it is, as far as I can find, the most detailed available and that is a very sad thing to have to write.

“During the early days of March, 1972, a succession of very strange happenings centred at or near the Douglas Reeves farm at Pioneer Mountain, near Toledo, caused this otherwise quite normal family at the farm to abandon it, and to make other local residents to doubt their senses. The following information summarizes several of the many weird events tha occurred during this period.

“Pioneer Mountain, incidentally, is situated in a sparsely populated region between Toledo and Siletz, in Oregon. Also, a total of some 30 or 40 persons claim to have witnessed extraordinary effects and aerial objects near the Reeves property so there can be little doubt that the undermentioned account describes events that really took place.

“The beginning of the succession of events culminating in the Reeves’ vacating of their farm began in early March when 16-years old Kathy Reeves, and a girl friend, were walking through woods near the farmhouse, when they glimpsed out of the corners of their eyes a fire apparently burning in an open section of ground cleared of trees only shortly before. Approaching closer, the two girls realized that the “fire” was really some type of object hovering only a few feet above ground level and which gave off a ruddy glow visible from some distance. The object appeared to be dome-shaped, with sparks and smoke flying outwards in all directions, almost as if the object was burning up. Somewhat frightened the two witnesses hurried homewards to fetch older relatives to confirm their sighting. But, hurrying now through the woods, they found themselves confronted with what appeared to be a large searchlight beacon. Thinking that they were the victims of a poor joke, the girls picked up stones and small rocks and threw them at the light’s source. Suddenly, and without warning, they found themselves surrounded by identical lights, that seemed to be moving in on them from all sides. Near to panic, the girls now raced at top speed back to their farm to tell their parents.

“Arriving at the Reeves’ farm, the teenagers blurted out to Kathy’s mother all that had befallen them. Kathy’s mother, Evelyn Reeves, did not at first take the girls’ story seriously, but then noted how extremely frightened they were and that they would not retract their story no matter how much she tried to get them to. After discussing the matter with her husband, and the parents of the other girl, Mrs Reeves decided the best course was to keep silent about the events that had supposedly happened.

“However, about midnight the same day, after everyone had retired to bed, Mrs Reeves was awakened from a sound sleep to find her bedroom filled with a strange pitched hum unlike anything she had previously heard. Rising to investigate, she was instantly attracted to a pulsating light shining through the curtains of the partly opened window. Drawing the curtains apart, the entire room was filled by a harsh glow emanating from what appeared to be a large object sitting in the yard outside. Suddenly the same glow filled all the rooms in the farmhouse, and likewise appearing from nowhere were strange doughnut shaped lights that seemed to be creeping up the very walls of their dwellings. By this time, the hum had increased in intensity and the doughnut shaped lights were rapidly increasing in numbers.

“Grabbing a gun from a rack in the living room, Mr Reeves pointed it toward someone or “something” he thought he saw moving outside. Immediately the house sparkled anew with bright lights and many more “crawling lights” materialized on the walls. Indeed, for a while it seemed as though the Reeves family would be overwhelmed by literally hundreds of these weird lights.

“Then the original reddish harsh glow gradually dimmed and disappeared, the humming sound fading away at the same time.

“Realizing the unbelievable nature of their experiences, the Reeves family decided to remain silent about what they had seen and heard. As the days passed and no further similar events occurred, the Reeves began to forget about their strange experiences, and felt that they could again live normal existences. But their hopes were in vain.

“After a while, however, the family began again to be woken up at about 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning by a rosy glow filling the entire farmhouse which was so intense that one could “read a newspaper by it”. These occurrences became so frequent and annoying that the Reeves boarded up their windows. This failed utterly to exclude the glow, and, worse still, the “crawling” doughnut-shaped lights returned in various rooms.

“About this time, the Reeves decided it would be best to call in experienced ufo investigators. One, the percipient of weird ufo activity himself, later told how he had observed disc-shaped lights flying in helter-skelter fashion through some trees in the Reeves’ apple orchard. They flew at high speeds and produced an almost inaudible high-pitched hum.

“Another witness, Max W. Taylor, a chemist with the Georgia-Pacific Corporation reported how he and a group of neighbours camped, at the request of the Reeves family, on their property in an effort to find a rational explanation of the amazing happenings. Originally sceptical, Taylor soon joined the ranks of believers when he, and his co-watchers, saw several strange pulsating blue lights that appeared on the outside walls of the kitchen at the farmhouse. Telephoning the local police, Taylor brought in deputy sheriff Thomas W. Price, from Lincoln County. At approximately 1.30 am, Price arrived at the Reeves’ property, and, as he got out of his squad car, saw a very fast moving unknown aerial object speeding from northeast to southeast. It emitted a high-pitched whine. It was orange and appeared to be spinning. It also made a complete stop, then passed on again towards the southeast. Price said that the object “made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end”.

“Other initially sceptical neighbours likewise reported odd occurrences. Five or six of them, described by police as “apparently sober”, insisted that they had seen “stumplike” entities moving across an open field near the Reeves Farm on two occasions.

“On another occasion, Douglas Whitlow, a 17-year old high school senior, found himself being followed down the Siletz-Toledo highway by a bright object that criss-crossed the road for over an hour. Others watched strange lights through binoculars, some witnesses asserting that the objects were oval shaped and that they appeared to be scanning Earth as though conducting a survey.

“Similar sightings continued to be made in the Pioneer Mountain region into May, while the astonishing and unnerving activity around the Reeves Farm persisted to such a degree that it forced the Reeves to abandon their home. Apparently unable to stand these visitations any longer, the Reeves family suddenly left their home and left no forwarding address. Their present whereabouts is unknown.

“This, and many other strange aspects of this series of sightings, are still under investigation. One day, perhaps, we will know the purpose behind these events, why the Reeves appear to have been singled out by the ufos, and what in fact became of the ill-fated family. All that is certain is that ufos continue to be sighted in this remote area of Oregon”.

Firstly, date error aside, the duration of events comes to around two plus months. A pity no one took any photographs of the phenomena. Now those photographs would be interesting to see.

Secondly; everyone from Keel, Coleman et al state that Kathy and her friend saw the stump-like entities. In this account it was not the girls but neighbours who saw the “entities” and we have to be careful as we have no real details; I note the article seems to indicate these may have been seen more than once.

Thirdly, you can see and note a great deal with a good pair of binoculars, however, that these “craft” appeared to be surveying Earth is highly conjectural. We cannot say that extraterrestrial craft were involved because there is no evidence of this just of there being some form of phenomena and based on the Maracaibo, Venezuela case of 1886 it was probably for the best that the family did move out. It could very well be that, if a natural but unknown phenomenon (UNP) was involved then levels of radiation could have been encountered.

Has no one tried to locate Kathy Reeves in recent years because if it was all a gag then being in her 60’s (?) now she is liable to say so but I cannot see why she would since everything was originally about her and her friend and their encounter with entities; an encounter that, it seems, did not involve them. We are not just talking about a far more complex case than any of the “big names” such as Keel and Coleman have hinted at; they both seem to take the event that never happened with tongue-in-cheek humour but have obviously not looked at the case at all.

I hate to say it again but it appears that this is another case of IBNC –Investigation By News-Clipping.

In 1974, Howard tells us, the case was still under investigation. Well, my late friend and colleague, Franklyn A. Davin-Wilson tried for years, right up to his death in 1983, to find out what happened to this investigation and report. Every year or-so I give it a try but can find out no more. Even if most of the witnesses have passed away now but surely their families must have heard the stories about the Reeves Farm? There is still the possibility that the area in question is still subjected to light phenomena even if not as intense as in 1966.

Interestingly I came across an item relating to the Reeves’ in the November-December, 1966, APRO Bulletin; p. 6 titled Weird Aerial Phenomena In Oregon:

“In October of 1966 a remote logging area near Toledo on Pioneer Mountain experienced the presence of strange objects which captured the interest of the press. Among those who observed the manifestations were Georgia-Pacific Co. chemist Max W. Taylor and the Evelyn Reeves family. The sequence of events began in March when the Reeves’ called Deputy Sheriff Thomas Wayne Price about the small doughnut-shaped lights which had been “crawling” across walls almost nightly both inside and outside the house. These were accompanied by noises described as like a high speed saw or a “giant, spinning top”.

“Taylor had been called by the Reeves family also, and one night while visiting there for the specific purpose of observing, he saw one of the small light spots on the living room wall and at the opposite end of the house, another spot, located in such a way that it indicated that an invisible beam of light had penetrated the house and was showing at each extreme.

“However –there was no apparent source for the light and no beam in between.

“When Price arrived on the scene at 1:20 a.m., the morning he was called, he was startled to see a large orange, glowing object maneuvering in the sky. The whining noise was then heard and the orange object vanished.

“The first indication of the strange phenomena came when Mrs Reeves’ daughter, Kathleen, 16, was walking up Pioneer Road with a friend and both girls saw what looked like a neighbor’s field on fire. “It was dome-shaped”, she said, “and it looked like it was burning.” The sight perplexed the girls and they started on home and then saw what appeared to be a “flashlight with a cover over the end so there was no beam.”

“Kathleen said she thought it was someone playing a trick, and threw a rock at the light, whereupon, “a lot of big ones went on all around it and we ran home.”

“Thereafter, according to Mrs Reeves and her daughter, the house was increasingly visited by pulsating “wall donuts” and the strange noises including the high-pitched whine heard and described by Price.

“On one occasion, said Mrs Reeves, one member of the family went for a gun after seeing “something” outside a living room window. When he pointed the gun, the “thing” appeared to back away, and then the inside of the house suddenly sparkled with a multitude of crawling lights.

“Another incident took place at about 2 one morning when Mrs Reeves woke up to see her whole bedroom lit up with a rosy glow so bright it would have furnished adequate light by which to read. She turned toward the living room door and saw a watermelon-colored red thing, like a cloud –just hanging there. She could see through it. It hung there, a hazy mass for a couple of minutes, and then disappeared.

“Among others who witnessed the strange sights was the owner of the house, Delbert Mapes, who bought the house from the Reeves. He said there has been no more activity since the Reeves left.

“Mapes observed round, luminous objects whizzing about through the orchard on one occasion.

“The remarkable thing about this incident is that no one believed the observers who reported the strange manifestations –until the doubters saw the things themselves. One of the incidents which Kathy reported and which no one can accept is the three little “stumps” that walked across the pasture one night.

“The activity, which started in March was still going strong as late as October 1966 when a secretary and two others in a car had a “near miss” with a “house-sized glowing sphere” on Friday the 14^th of October.

“This seems to be another one of those series of incidents which may involve UAO occupants engaged in certain activities in a certain area, and the methods by which they discourage local residents from interfering with them.

“An Oregon member far removed from the Toledo area has volunteered to make the long trip to thoroughly investigate the incidents and attempt to procure exact times, places and dates. We will report on this series of sightings when more information is available.”

In fact, I went through the 1967 and 1968 APRO Bulletins and any follow-up is notable by its absence. Instead the Lorenzens seemed to concentrate on the “sexy news” –such as ‘UFO fleets’ over Europe and South America, more South American reports, Richard Greenwell’s tour of South America as APRO representative, flying saucer ‘attacks’ and their own books. I doubt the Reeves case was sensationalist enough –or the investigator (whoever) was greeted with silence.

The noticeable differences in the account stick out like a sore thumb. Kathy and her friend saw the stump-like entities. Kathy alone saw the stump-like entities by herself one evening. Locals saw the stump-like entities. So which of these was it? The account in the APRO Bulletin seems to clearly describe lights “coming on” around the dome-shaped object and there is mention of Kathy throwing a rock and not both girls picking up rocks and stones and throwing them. We then have the part of the account where Mr Reeves takes a gun –I am assuming this was a son since it is clearly identified as the “Evelyn Reeves family” –usually indicating a widow and family. I am not sure where Howard got the information for his article but it is a good deal different from the version APRO reported on.

Here we have a major problem in that we have no idea which is the most accurate account, though I would edge toward Lorenzens’ version.

To complete a full record we need to try to locate any surviving members of the Reeves family. We have the names of Deputy Sheriff Thomas W. Price of Lincoln County and Max W. Taylor and Douglas Whitlow –others mentioned in the APRO report. There were said to have been 30 to 40 other witnesses to phenomena –all of these people must have told their families the UFO stories or recorded them somewhere?

And just who were the UFO investigators?

There must be competent UFO investigators who can locate and talk to the witnesses if any can be located and carry out a newspaper archives search. With all the fuss over ‘Marley Woods’ and the Skinwalker Ranch we have here an historical precedent for light phenomena that surely deserves a fresh look?

I am already re-opening two investigations in the United States because UFO investigators there –MUFON- are simply not interested in getting up off of their backsides to look into events. This case, and others, really require local investigators or people who know the area, people and resources.

More Devon Abductions?

When it comes to my looking into the Buckfastleigh Encounter of 1978 I seem to have stirred up a whole can of worms.

If we count the trio in Buckfastleigh who are the main focus then add in the reported abduction that MUFON simply ignored when it was reported to them years later as well as one person who may have scarring along the spine following a supposed abduction then we have five possible abductees.

In a couple other cases, although a light (seen by a secondary witness) was reported and there was "paralysis" there is no conscious recall of anything more.  I could dig deeper but that would mean opening up the percipients to trauma and there is nothing in place to help support percipients after main investigation. I will not put people through this just to add more case material.

However, there is a sixth possible abductee from that period.  Around September, 1978, Gordon (pseudonym) and his fiancee had moved to Devon, not far from Buckfastleigh, to take up work as chef's while Gordon waited to hear back about his application to join a northern police force.

One morning, Gordon's fiancee shook him awake to look out at a very bright object not far from where they were staying.  Things then got odd.  Gordon remembers waking, seated on a chair in the living room.  This appears -as far as we know- to have been a one off event.

Many years later, having retired from the police service, Gordon's fiancee-then wife of many years- was dying and told him that she had seen much more on the night they had seen a UFO.  She told him that at one point she had seen him accompanied by "others" before he "awoke" in the living room.

Gordon just wanted to let me know something had happened but did not want to go into things too deeply as his late wife had seen -or recalled- more.  He simply wanted me to know that this took place around the time of the Buckfastleigh event in case it helped.  Eventually I wrung out of him that the "others" seen by his wife resembled types known as "Nordics" in Ufology. Something else was related to him by his late wife but he would say no more.  He does, however, have my contact details.

Although Gordon was not after publicity I still have to note but give a low credibility rating since I on;y have basic details.  That does not mean he was lying. I just have nothing to really dig into and, again, I was not going to push to exploit.

However, since Gordon could not know of the details in one case I was struck by a certain aspect of his report that matched. That is a big "coincidence".

I have stated for many years that 1977 leading into 1978 was a peak period for CE3K/AE reports in the UK and further afield.  We may never know what happened in that small area of Devon in 1978 but something obviously was going on.

Unusual Features Revealed by Most Detailed Map of Titan

Research Never Stops

The introduction to Contact: Encounters with Extra Terrestrial Entities

Research Never Stops

   If the Reader has read my previous two books on Close Encounters of the Third Kind -referred to in this work as “CE3K”- and Alien Entity cases, UFO Contact? and Unidentified –Identified then they should know what to expect in this one. Reports that have been researched or investigated as thoroughly as possible and that are fully referenced.  I always encourage others to follow-up on a report if they want to and, should they find evidence that counters what is presented in any of my work it is always welcome. Research is not about saying “case closed” because, unlike Science in general which closes its eyes and looks away, we cannot have that attitude.

   The Debunkers like to assert that they apply the Principles of Science to their work. In fact, if they did so we might not get to continually laugh at them as they impress their fans (oh yes, there are groupies and it is quite embarrassing to see) with talk of how members of the public cannot judge size and distance when their own televised debunking tests prove that they can.  And where would we be if the debunkers, who are not marine biologists and ignore everything said and written by marine biologists with decades of field work, did not explain to us that there are no sea serpents or sea ‘monsters’ –even Sir David Attenborough in the book Life On Earth (Harper Collins, London, 1979) states that it may be possible that we will one day discover the legendary sea serpent(s).  Oh, and some debunkers would be lost if they could not cry out “It was owls!” at least twice a year.

   Debunkers by using that very name reveal that they are here only to gain attention and make money from TV shows, books and other outlets. If you look into something and your mindset is that you know everything and its all hoaxes or psychological then you are serving no purpose other than hiding your fear behind a big ego (and cheque). If you cannot disprove something and have to resort to lies, trying to corrupt other witnesses with money and fake evidence then you are hiding something.

   The “Sceptical Ufologist” is just another name for a debunker.  These people hide in online groups or attend UFO events while criticising Ufologists, conventions and telling private groups that they will be “spying in the background” at events and report back.  They are actively involved in attempting to explain away UFO reports through far fetched or non-tenable theories. The reasons why they will not look at or accept the possibility of extraterrestrial visits is purely down to Fear of the Unknown Phobia – Xenophobia: the irrational sensation of fear experienced about a person or a group of persons as well as situations that are perceived as strange or foreign. It is the fear of anything that is beyond one's comfort zone. Why these people insist on being in the Ufological field also indicates a deep psychological anxiety because if “It’s all hoaxes or psychological” then get out of the subject and live your life.

   In November, 2018, I received three emails from people involved in UFO groups and online chat groups.  They were outraged and sent me the full body of text from a message on the supposedly private EuroUFONet group regarding “Current international UFO research coordination/liaison projects”. The author was none other than Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos.  As this email is now public knowledge and I have made this known to EuroUFONet I can see no problem with publishing it here unedited:

   “I am not surprised by lack of reaction on those "events". In a very brief comment, many of us worked on similar initiatives in the past when we still believed that (1) there was a legit subject-matter to investigate (i.e. a possible visit of spacecrafts, or at least the possibility to discover a novel atmospheric phenomenon), and (2) ufologists' motivation was sincere, educational, research-oriented. Such attempts failed basically because major differences in attitude (research vs exploitation) and conclusion (different forms of skepticism vs crude belief in flying saucers) emerged as the result of advancement vs stagnation.

   “What was impossible 30 years ago is now impossible because sides are sharper. We all know all the guys listed, one by one. Their biography (perhaps with some exception) is clearly one of belief and/or exploitation. Most of the individuals listed simply attempt to disguise their own credences in spacecraft visits with the appearance of serious investigation, but they are sensational-seekers and opportunists, trying to get recognition and a few bucks. Most if not of them are mediocre people in search of fame and money. All of them use and abuse the popular UFO belief to their own benefit. For me, this is ludicrous and immoral, in addition to totally wrong. I, for one, would not associate to any of them.

   “If an institution (ignorant of the reality) decides to waste some money and invites them to a congress, it will give them an excuse to release the magnificient proposal of an international confederation or the like, just to fabricate a news with zero base. They just share identical personal objectives (perhaps with some exception). If they find an institution or government naive enough to invest money on this subject, they will jump on this, specially if it allows them to travel, go to good hotels, make publicity of themselves, enjoy TV coverage, and the like. In 5 years, nothing will have been accomplished. As in the last 70 years.

   “Regarding MUFON: is there anything we do not know about what really fuels this organization?”
 
   I see points that I would agree with and others that I would challenge but I suppose that the main question is why would you remain active in a field you think is utter rot and full of idiots and con-men?

   When we add to this the Ufologists and the bragging rights (they think) to declaring that they employ the Principles of Science unlike the scientific community we can see why things are messy.  The first question here is why do Ufologists not submit their completed reports and case files to the Centre for UFO Studies in Chicago? At least there they can be read by other researchers.  The purpose of research is not to collect UFO reports and let no one else see them simply because you feel they are “yours” and I have encountered this again and again over the last four decades.  In the UK it seems that as soon as 1985 arrived genuine UFO investigation and research groups around the UK just packed up and vanished –where are all of their reports: in an attic somewhere.

   The lie here is that Science, Ufology and Debunkers “apply the Principles of Science” because there are no internationally adhered to such principles.  Look it up and you will be told “The three Principles” or “the four principles” and I have even seen five and six principles laid out. A Principle is defined as:

        “A principle is a concept or value that is a guide for behaviour or evaluation.
        In law, it is a rule that has to be or usually is to be followed, or can be desirably 
        followed, or is an inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws
        observed in nature or the way that a system is constructed”.

   If you want a better definition then this should do:

        “Scientific Principles and Research Practices. These principles are at work
        in the fundamental elements of the scientific method, such as formulating
        a hypothesis, designing an experiment to test the hypothesis, and collecting
        and interpreting data”.

   I am afraid that “We hypnotised this woman and she said it was all the Greys” is not counted because without exception those involved in defining and leading “Abduction Research” from Budd Hopkins, john Carpenter and David Jacobs on have not applied scientific methodology but have led subjects, added and/or removed data such as testimony and submitted material (symbols, etc.) as convenient and even gone as far as to misinterpret what they have been told by subjects –or to paraphrase Jacobs and how he puts it “I have to interpret what abductees say” because no one knows the truth other than him.

   As for designing an experiment to test an hypothesis I am sorry to say that there is only one and that would take money and effort that Ufologists and scientists do not have since they are all following dogma.

   I was once a big supporter of Jacobs and a very big supporter of Hopkins –I was called (twice) “Hopkins UK promoter”. To find out that he redraw symbols that abductees claimed they had seen during incidents so that they matched, holding back of facts that proved that Linda Cortile was at best a hoaxer.  Add to this the fact that both he and Jacobs had no form of oversight and none of their material was/is peer reviewed and there is no access to recordings to quantify the methodology used in regression sessions it is a mess.  According to Jacobs: “If you see a UFO no, it did not vanish almost instantly: you were abducted!”

   Hopkins and Jacobs made it so that they decided what was to be revealed and that everyone had to take their words on the matter. This led to the obliteration of any credibility Ufology had.  Even the farce that was “New Ufology” never created such damage.

   I have copies of witness interview tapes where the investigator is referring to a Lights-in-the-Sky UFO as “the space-craft”, “the space-ship” and so on. I have seen Ufologists on TV shows tell witnesses at their first meeting how “We know it’s a race called the Zeta Reticulans –they are one of a number of species coming to Earth”.

   Why does science not take UFOs seriously? Because of debunkers, sceptical Ufologists and Ufology is why.

   “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean” and Isaac Newton was quite correct but today we have Science becoming almost entertainment and scientists from all fields jumping on to the media roller-coaster to become “celebrities”. George Gillet spoke to scientist and author Rupert Sheldrake after his Oxford Union talk The Science Delusion: Has Science Become Dogmatic? (The Student, 28th November, 2013) and noted that:

    “After much consideration, it seems that what Sheldrake is suggesting isn’t as radical as it seems. The idea of always analysing the evidence behind a theory is fundamental to the practice of science. What is surprising is the reliance modern science seems to have on opinions and dogmas, and how certain beliefs in science appear to be immune from scrutiny or inquiry. Sheldrake may indeed be a taboo figure now, but his criticisms of science may prove popular in years to come”.

   I once had a conversation with a physicist and I noted that he skirted around a certain theory that was gaining popularity at the time. I told him that I had noticed him doing this and asked why?  He told me that his “old Professor” who had taught him had instilled in him that the theory he taught was never to be questioned and that he applied the same principle in his teaching students and “Lord save the little sod who questions what I am telling them!”  I could not let that go and discovered that his old teacher had been the same because that was how he had been taught.  I suppose that the teacher’s teacher was taught what his teacher had been taught! Five generations of teachers at a university were basically teaching out of date things because it was the way things were done.  Then it came from his mouth: “The university relies on funding and if we start telling people that the lab named after an esteemed predecessor that they funded was teaching old stuff we’d be up shit creek in the rainy season!”

   Money. Funding –I have heard this over and over again.  When I was trying to get backing or at least a base to work from on exotic fauna in the UK and foxes I approached colleges and universities.  I was told again and again and again that “in the old days we used to have biology departments and field biologists” which beggared the question “Why not now?”  The answer was simple: field biology was not the “sexy science” –no one from local or national businesses or investment groups were going to put money into it.  Where was the publicity or slick product they wanted –funding research into average shoe sizes in the UK or whether youngsters would prefer to eat vegetables or chocolate and sweets (I am not joking) or even “Who does the dishes at home” –that gets backing.  Looks good on tax returns and a company can put down that it supports scientific research on its portfolio which share-holders like.

   It is far easier for scientists in different fields to be dogmatic and joke or make fun about UFOs without ever having carried out a day of research.  Someone is phoning from the BBC to ask your opinion on UFO sightings –Google it. I was once on Australian radio about Big Cat sightings and asked about reports from Australia and I mentioned two cases in which there were really good, clear paw-prints that were photographed and plaster casts made and identified by a zoologist.  That same day I had an esteemed member of Australia’s scientific community telephone me and tell me that I had been speaking rot and so I told him who the zoologist was who had carried out all the work in that part of Australia. “Probably some ornithologist!” he snapped back. I told him the department and university name and gave him an email contact.  There was silence followed by “That’s my university!” never heard from him again.

   This dogma and blind eye of science runs through most fields.

   According to a post on the Astronotes blog of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, on the 9th May, 2013, titled The Truth About Zeta Reticuli:

   “Zeta Reticuli, a dim binary system of Sun-like stars only 39.5 light years away in the little constellation of Reticulum is strangely well-known. Why is it so famous? This system was once identified as the home of the little grey-faced and black-eyed humanoids who allegedly abducted Barney and Betty Hill and ever since has appeared in popular culture as the quintessential location of extraterrestrial mystery. What do we really know about these stars?”

   Firstly, “Admin”— I hate it when someone claiming respectability hides behind a vague title rather than put their actual name to what they write. Put your real name to it or expect it to be ignored. On this occasion it just shows that “Admin” had read whatever the first web site he/she came to for ‘facts’.

   Secondly: “home of the little grey-faced and black-eyed humanoids” shows equal lack of knowledge since Betty and Barney Hill were not abducted by “Greys” –the Greys only came into being in the 1980s thanks to the questionable work of Hopkins, Jacobs et al so incorrect there.

   Thirdly, Betty Hill stated that the chart she had seen was so detailed that she could not possibly draw it in any great detail but focussed on one part that stuck in her mind and drew that –and even then it was a case of “the best I can remember”.  From there the sketch was re-drawn, copied and redrawn and then subjected to study and Zeta Reticuli was seen as the prominent point in the now “star map”. If someone points to a map of England on a wall and asks: “Where is it you come from?”  I can point at it and say “There” now, yes, Bristol and Cardiff will show up prominently in the area I have pointed at but looking you would also see Bath, Yate, Midsomer Norton, Chipping Sodbury and so on.  Even then it is not clear which area I come from though accents can be a giveaway (we have no idea whether aliens have accents).  We also have to recall that these were not crystal clear recollections but recollections under hypnosis so to say “This is an accurate star map and we did not even know about those stars back then: Zeta Reticuli is where they come from!” is ludicrous.

   The fact that stars were included that were generally unknown at the time is interesting to note and those sceptics and debunkers attacking the Hill case tend to side step that or suggest “just a lucky guess!”  The Hill case does not rest on something that was never claimed by Betty to be a complete star map and was something she did not fully understand.  Ufologists are the ones who tend to make all the claims and they really ought to stop and move on. The Hill case was in 1961 and there have been other cases since.

   This is something that is common in most fields where a report has caused a stir or become popular –it becomes a “classic”. If you look at the question of the North American Sasquatch/Bigfoot there are hundreds of years of legends, accounts, reports, tracks (before the modern day fakery) described in detail and so on. Work was carried out by the renowned field biologist John Bindernagel as well as others looking at habitat –food resources and so on.  John Green carried out a great deal of work marking what seemed to be a migration pattern and territorial patterns.

   Then, sadly, the “Bigfoot fans” became involved and every tree stump seen in a photograph was a Bigfoot. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation, like certain UFO groups, began to fake reports and new trends followed such as Bigfoot “calls”, “tree-knocking” and so on that were never reported previously. The main classic case is the 1967 brief clip of an alleged Sasquatch known as “Patty” and that short piece of footage has been cleaned up, digitized, analyzed any way possible and you either believe it is fake or genuine –the fuss created if you say “I’m neutral –we’ll learn nothing more so let’s get to the new cases”.

   After 50 years some people are pointing out that the Patterson-Gimlin footage needs to be filed away and if a body of a Bigfoot is found and it looks like the one in the footage then we will know it was genuine.  The same applies to the Hill case which I dealt with in UFO Contact? –it is not the only incident since 1961 and so needs to be filed away.  Arguing over the case serves no purpose what-so-ever: you either believe it happened or you do not; both percipients have been dead a long time so nothing new will ever be added of relevance.

   Astronote in its blog post also stated that:

    “Only just visible to the unaided eye, Zeta Reticuli was first referred to as such in 1756. Can I just repeat that Zeta Reticuli has been seen in the sky without a telescope for centuries. Anyone who tells you it was not discovered until after the Hill’s story became famous is utterly wrong”.

   Well, “Admin” is the one who is utterly wrong in fact –as far as I am aware no one who knows anything about astronomy either in Ufology or in looking at the Hill case has ever claimed any such thing –unless you get your information from a debunker who will claim that this was stated. I think “Admin” really does need to do a little reading because this kind of unprofessional and silly blog post is something the snorting astronomy fan boys might go for but it is a falsehood. Why should I believe anything Armagh Observatory claims if it either lies or twists facts –it lacks the scientific credibility it likes to claim it has.

Sceptics often offer little personal snippets that sound acceptable to the public and others but lack every detail and fact that makes them sound a little genuine.
Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic and in an issue of the Scientific American magazine (Scientific American vol. 292, February, 2005. p: 34) he wrote about his abduction experience:

   “My abduction experience was triggered by sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion. I had just ridden a bicycle 83 straight hours and 1,259 miles in the opening days of the 3,100-mile nonstop transcontinental Race Across America. I was sleepily weaving down the road when my support motor home fl ashed its high beams and pulled alongside, and my crew entreated me to take a sleep break. At that moment a distant memory of the 1960s television series The Invaders was inculcated into my waking dream.

   “In the series, alien beings were taking over the earth by replicating actual people but, inexplicably, retained a stiff little fi nger. Suddenly the members of my support team were transmogrified into aliens. I stared intensely at their fingers and grilled them on both technical and personal matters.

   “After my 90-minute sleep break, the experience represented nothing more than a bizarre hallucination, which I recounted to ABC’s Wide World of Sports television crew filming the race. But at the time the experience was real, and that’s the point. The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. Thanks to science we have learned to tell the difference between fantasy and reality”.

   So to any closed mind of science, his pals and fans not to mention his ego, Shermer had easily explained away UFO abductions by totally ignoring the facts.

   Firstly, of course, he was being all macho and ignoring advice from his crew so pushed himself to his mental and physical limit.  That ought to tell you the type of man he is –big on ego and not listening.

   Secondly, and this is a popular misconception amongst the ignorant –debunkers and sceptical Ufologists: Shermer’s ‘abduction’ (he claims) had constant references back to the TV series The Invaders.  I have dealt with this in blog posts and alleged UFO abductees do not refer to elements of Star Wars, Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the 1950s movies like Invaders from Mars, etc. In fact such references often help eliminate fantasy prone people so that those reports can be catalogued but taken no further.

   Going along with this theory then surely people should have reported strange sounds and giant ants - the movie Them! was very popular and why did other popular and international blockbusters not spawn panic or droves of reports of flying children’s nannies? Why no wave of sightings of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bangs? You cannot push a theory that a popular TV series or movie will spawn hysterical mass reporting of sightings but “only when it comes to UFOs”.

   If Shermer was correct then Kelly Cahill and five others (four unconnected to her) were all exhausted and sleep deprived on one particular hour on one particular day and in one particular spot and I would have to question the odds in favour of that. The Hills were also exhausted and sleep deprived? Walton and his crew were all exhausted and sleep deprived?  The person who left their house for work after a good night’s sleep was sleep deprived and exhausted?

   Were there other witnesses to Shermer’s ‘abduction’ or did others report UFOs at the time of his experience? Was he seen with a UFO above him or was there trace evidence?  Was there any radar-visual evidence? “No” to all of those because it was all in Shermer’s mind in a situation he created by ignoring advice and pushing himself too far.  A bad example when it comes to TV series reference as an explanation: David Vincent was an architect who had driven too far and was too tired to go on; however, as we know he was not dreaming but had seen ‘real’ aliens and a space craft and did not wake up and say “Wow, did I hallucinate last night!”

   I have no time for debunkers and sceptical Ufologists and, oddly, both of those factions continuously try to recruit me to their groups because “You seem to have the same outlook and approach as us!”  Rejection often offends but I like to quote Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29th September, 1864 – 31st December, 1936) who was a Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca and he wrote that:

“The sceptic does not mean he who doubts,
but he who investigates or researches, as
opposed to he who asserts and thinks that
he has found”.


    I do not just criticise for the sake of it and I am not here to make friends. If I criticise it is because there is just cause to criticise and I do so based on facts and those I fully reference.  I do know that there are, out there in France, Germany, the United States and even the UK, people who may or may not call themselves Ufologists but investigate and research and these people are in the position of having accumulated data but finding no central location to send it to or where it can be published and peer reviewed.   Most try to avoid contact with Ufology in general for reasons I can understand.

   I also know that there are astronomers out there who have a serious interest in the subject and I have met some of them and they may keep private files on the subject.  Some well known astronomers have gone to their graves having never revealed their interest and some acted the role of debunker.  Fear that your colleagues might “pull your leg” or joke about you is not the basis to hide your interest in the subject matter. In the past astronomers have been tortured and executed because they stuck to their beliefs and theories and to bring enlightenment to Humanity. And you worry you might be called a name?  Open interest and discussion with colleagues will always be difficult if they do not believe in the principles of scientific investigation.

   Why do we know that the Earth is not the centre of the solar system and that there are galaxies out there that were never even known to exist in the past?  How do we now know that water is not only confined to the Earth in this solar system –suggesting that previously resulted in astronomers being mocked by colleagues in print and at conferences.  So much that we are learning now is often carrying the added line of “We always suspected this” when, in fact, “we” never did but took part in the mocking but now it is proven “we” all knew it.

   Do we really think it is worth waiting 50,000 years for a signal to reach a point in space and take 50,000 more years to get a reply if there is anyone there?  If scientists are seriously looking for extra terrestrial life rather than a meal ticket for life then they have to take the example of the French and get out there or study case reports. This should carry no stigma, perhaps a few jokes, but imagine if you find evidence here on Earth of such visits.

   I would like to see real researchers and investigators cooperate on the whole subject but I do not believe they will or can because they both create obstacles. There is the need to have financial backing and a national reporting centre –there is the Centre for UFO Studies in the United States but no real equivalent in Europe.

   For the Reader who, by now, may be wondering when the case reports will appear I need to point out that this work, as with the previous two, are not meant to be pot-boilers with case after case.  That would be too simple.  I look at reports and then check as many sources as possible to make sure that I only use good cases or cases worth noting.  I also try to up-date with any new research findings –the Reeves Farm in 1966 and how the Dandenongs Encounter (Kelly Cahill) fits in with the black entity research and I also try to focus in on reports that have similar entities involved that seem to indicate that there is a core of genuine encounters.

   As for “proof” this is different for each sceptic of course.  I have seen a group of sceptics argue over what one has given for criteria but another one rejects.  As with Sasquatch most will not be happy until there is a body!  Firstly, I do not believe that there are any captured or dead aliens of flying saucers held anywhere so we do not have that proof and even if we did there would be claim and conspiracy theory ad infinitum as to why we are not being told the whole story, how we are being deceived and so on.

   Photographic and video evidence is up-dated daily online but the only problem is that it is all faked.  There was once a joke made that one day someone would upload photographs and video footage of genuine aliens and a space craft but it would be called fake because it is one genuine item amongst thousands of fakes. I watched a lengthy video clip of a marine animal on You Tube one day and glanced at the comments -45 claimed that it was “so obviously CGI!” and “You can see where it is poor quality CGI!” and there was one person who clearly identified the species that was filmed and gave a reference and that person was totally ignored as the arguing continued.

   All we can do is take each report and gather as much data as possible and if the witness/percipients are still alive try to talk to them. There are many old cases where the details are so basic because the only sources are newspaper clippings. Once those people have died we lose their evidence. If I can I try to find a photograph of the witness/percipient because that takes the report from words to putting an actual human face to them and that is important.

   Multiple witness or percipients get High strangeness ratings of around 5 and if there are independent observations that add to the case then the rating can get higher and if the PRA in Australia ever releases the Dandenongs Report and it backs up the claims then that would be the first case to get a rating of 9-10.

   People ask about the simple UFO landing, entities exiting, taking samples and then returning to the object which then takes off.  We even have such cases where several people are asked if they would care to board the object but refuse –the entities then go about their business and depart: no missing time or abductions.  Those cases are so basic and constant that it seems almost unbelievable that they are faked –no one makes money and most witnesses do not even want to be named. But if only one witness then the rating is low.

   The question has been asked over the last few years: “Why are abductions and UFO reports declining?”  The answer is that there were never “many thousands” of sightings, no multi-millions of generational family abductions.  We are seeing the situation as it has always been with less people reporting sightings of meteorites, unusual light phenomena, aircraft, drones and balloons under unusual conditions. If those who do have genuine encounters see how the media, press, science and Ufology have treated witnesses in the past they are more than likely going to keep quiet.  One off event and that is it –why ruin your life?

   I would hope that if anyone had a genuine encounter that they would report it and damn the ignorant.

   I can always be contacted by serious investigators and researchers and by anyone who believes that they have had an encounter and in 40+ years no person asking for anonymity has ever had their names revealed.  I am not in this for the money and fame, which is probably a good thing really.




Terry Hooper-Scharf
CE3K/AE Project
23rd December, 2018



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