Having received a copy of UFO Contact? this is what the J. Allen Hynek Centre for UFO Studies had to say about it:
"...an impressive body of work. I appreciate your lively writing, use of original sources as much as possible, and forceful opinions about the cases, investigators, etc. And I concur with your evaluations of cases that have been pushed aside, such as Kelly, or Pascagoula."
Other UFO researchers who have read the book are of similar opinions. So are you going to just carry on reading the same old same old half truths and lies or try to find out what is REALLY going on?
Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth. Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.
In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.
But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?
Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?
Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?
And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?
Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?
Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".
James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers. An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved. Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.
2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.
Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.
Far be it for me to say "its odd" but I'm waiting to see the paper because either the original source DELIBERATELY gave misleading information or things are not adding up.
This also shows that despite all the claims that "we" (the free meal for lifers at SETI) would not be detecting signals left, right and centre if aliens were out there we wouldn't; this is Science trying to pretend it KNOWS when it clearly does not. "Put your trust in Svcience and we'll get the answers" is a good catchphrase until you look at the record of how many of those involved in astronomy and SETI at high levels are terrified at the prospect -look at the reaction in this case before the details were known. Go and check for yourself the very public statement that "It is never ever aliens" by SETI 'experts' and astronomers.
What makes me suspicious is that Seth ("Pant pooper if its Aliens") Shostak went around telling everyone that is was "highly probable -though I've seen none of the data" that this was terrestrial interference. Not seen any of the data but then again it will NEVER be aliens because if it was Shostak would have to hide under his bed. What a man to be involved in SETI -a man who is terrified of FINDING ETI!
This is why SETI should be handled by the people who can finance it as well as handle the possibility that alien life might exist (see any one of my books regarding this). A cluster of mini broadcaster-receiver satellites aliong the lines of Starlink sent off in different directions in the solar system might achieve more than Earth based facilities which, they keep jumping up and telling us, cannot tell the difference between someone warming up a cup of coffee in a microwave oven and a possible extra terrestrial signal.
Slash the SETI budget and the free mealers and get people who are willing to look and do more than sit on their asses. Think of the billions of $ that would save. Can't tell a microwave from alien signal. DO NOT want to find alien signals or civilisation. Sounds like a big con.
At the time that the US Department of Defence release UFO photos (a Batman balloon) and talk about possible extraterrestrial threats you have to wonder what game people are playing. Because Ufology and everyone else is being played.
The $100 million Breakthrough Listen project is scanning the heavens for possible signals from alien civilizations.
News travels fast — at the lickety-split speed of light, potentially. Back in December, great attention was paid to a report that a mysterious radio signal appeared to have come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.
Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years from us, is known to host two planets. One of those two worlds, Proxima b, is slightly more massive than Earth and might be capable of supporting life as we know it.
The Breakthrough Listen project, part of the Breakthrough Initiatives group, made the recent detection using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, dubbing the signal BLC1 for "Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1."
Breakthrough Initiatives is backed by Yuri Milner, a science and technology investor and philanthropist who founded the organization. Its Breakthrough Listen activity is a $100 million program of astronomical observations and analysis, the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the search for evidence of technological civilizations in the universe.
Space.com recently talked with Breakthrough Initiatives executive director Simon Peter "Pete" Worden about BLC1 and the search for alien "technosignatures" more generally; the protocols for announcing an ET detection; and the latest about the prospects for life on Venus, another study effort being undertaken by Breakthrough Initiatives.
Spoiler alert: Don't be heartbroken in learning how tough "radio-waving" between civilizations truly is!
1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim
1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology.
1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account.
Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group.
Reports now probably lost to history.
1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. Nothing has changed.
The truth of the matter is that distributors block you and shops do likewise if you are a self publisher. I know because I have tried since 2009.
Online stores are nothing more than show and I say that after opening one in 2009 and there are currently 169 books covering 17 pages.
These are comics of various genres. Graphic novels of various genres and comic albums (48-100pp) on various genres.
There are the World Mystery Books (4 of them covering UFOs, cryptozoology, ghosts and more).
There is the Red Paper: Canids that lomng time naturalists have called "an incredible wildlife document" and "Explosive!" not to mention the album finally explaining what the Girt Dog of Innerdale (a cryptozoological mystery) was. There was also the look at Spring Heeled Jack and as detailed as you could want.
A quartet of books looking at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs and specifically encounters with "aliens" -good review from the Centre for UFO Studies and others.
All the text books are fully illustrated have rare and 'lost' photographs and everything is fully referenced.
I asked someone to count up how many views of posts relating to these books there had been up to 2019 on this and all the other blogs, Twitter, Pinterest and so on. 3.24 million. But the books do not sell and they are all printed in the region they are ordered from so there isn't even a concern about international postage -postage is local.
Comic shops will not stock the comics unless they are on "free trial" and kept off the books and the monopoly distributor in the UK does not find out. In other words it is what we used to call a "dead shop".
Regarding books the same applies but most bookstortes still left are "Remnant bookstores" selling off old stock. Those that do buy in new stock belong to chains and therefore will only take what head office says they can. And guess what? Head office only buys from distributors. Another "closed shop".
From the 1980s to the 1990s I submitted the same manuscripts to UK publishers. All rejected BECAUSE the persons reviewing the Ms for publishers were established UFO authors and, of course, that meant they were going to block anyone threatening their money-making monopoly (I have two of the "reader reviews" the publishers sent me so I know who put the boot in -they also used a large chunk of my data as their own later).
So when people ask whether I have tried a paying publisher my response is "Yes but as long as they employ reviewers with vested interests no outsider will have work in print" (just check the UKs UFO books output for the last 20 years to see what I mean).
Considering that we appear to be in a new age of illiteracy and where only fake sensationalist books are published and sold serious and factual writers will not get a look in.
Hey, if there is a serious, established publisher out there I'll send you copies of books. Just get in touch.
I have gone past the stage where decades of work is thrown away for a few pennies. I need to live and pay bills the same as everyone else.
In March all of the World Mystery and UFO books will be deleted from the store.
Movies and TV shows would have us believe aliens would look
a bit like us, only with a big (bald) head, green skin, and crazy eyes. Don't
believe it.
Movies and TV shows would have us believe aliens would look
a bit like us, only with a big (bald) head, green skin, and crazy eyes. But we
weren't satisfied with that old cliche. So we decided to ask sci-fi authors,
science experts, and ET buffs what they think extraterrestrials really would
look like.
Kevin Anderson:
Science-fiction author
"Look at the incredible diversity of biotypes here on
Earth, all of which evolved under the same planetary environment. I don't
believe an alien species from an entirely different biochemical foundation
would happen to turn out with two arms, two legs, two eyes, ears, nostrils . .
. two genders, warm-blooded, and so on. But, for intelligence one would assume
brain capacity, and therefore the body would need some sort of protective
mechanism for the vital brain—an exoskeleton, a skull, something like that.
"To build tools they would need some kind of
manipulative digits, like fingers (not necessarily an opposable thumb, maybe
prehensile tentacles). There would have to be a reproductive system, but it
could be budding, seeding, fission, egg laying—not necessarily live,
warm-blooded birth. They would require some sort of sensory systems, the
analogs of eyes, ears, smelling apparatuses. But their "eyes" would
have evolved for the peak spectrum of their own sun, not necessarily ours.
"Do they live in a sea? In the clouds of a gas giant?
On land? In a desert? In a jungle? They would need a way to eat or consume
energy, and they would need to excrete waste. For intelligence, they'd need to
communicate—by voice? Pheromones? Blinking phosphorescent patches?"
Darren Campo: TV
producer and executive
"When it comes to film and TV, it's problematic to make
a race of aliens that does not resemble humans. Actors have to play these
roles. What aliens look like in the real world will depend on where they
evolved. An alien that evolved in interstellar space would have very different
needs from an alien that evolved on an Earthlike planet.
"There is one thing that is nearly certain: an alien
life form will be symmetrical. Everything we know of that grows follows a
symmetrical pattern. Cut a tree in half lengthwise, the branches and roots on
one side would be fairly similar to the other. The same applies to humans and
all living growth, even inorganic growth such as crystals and galaxies.
"The size and shape of the alien would be determined by
gravity, ambient density, and source of energy. Plantlike aliens are unlikely
because photosynthesis doesn't encourage complex survival strategies. The need
to chase food favors mobile life. If such life evolved in a thick atmosphere,
it's likely to be a horizontal creature. A thinner atmosphere would favor the
most vertical animals. Two legs and two arms are more efficient than four legs,
so incorporating the rule of symmetry, it's not unlikely that aliens would have
evolved just like humans: bipedal and upright.
"When we consider that 95 percent of the universe is
not perceptible by our senses or technology (dark matter and energy), then it's
most likely that's where the aliens are. So one might say most aliens don't
look like anything because they are invisible."
Aaron Rosenberg:
Science-fiction author
"Never mind the gaunt, nearly skeletal figure with the
long talons and the scorpion-like tail and the mouth full of razor teeth. Never
mind the little green or gray men with oversize craniums and oversize eyes and
tiny mouths. Never mind the cat-men or lizard-men or dog-men or people with
blue skin and strange, tattoo-like markings or odd brow ridges or pointier
ears. Why would an alien look that similar to us?
"Bilateral symmetry is actually a pretty crappy design,
when you think about it. Yes, it looks nice and even but what's the point? Why
have two sides exactly the same when you could have something completely
different on the other side? Even the Daleks figured this one out—they had a
sucker arm on one side and a laser on the other. And bipedal? Ridiculous—one
good push and we fall over. Why would another world's race evolve with that
exact same design flaw? Why would another world's race grow eyes and a nose and
a tongue and all the other fiddly bits we have? They wouldn't.
"Living beings evolve in response to their environment.
We grew opposable thumbs so we could better grasp objects. Monkeys developed
prehensile tails for the same reason. We have eyes because light breaks down
into the visible end of the electromagnetic spectrum here.
"But if we had occurred on a completely different
world, with different temperatures and topography and flora and fauna, we would
have evolved differently. And if that other world had a completely different
chemical composition, so would we. All life on Earth is carbon-based, but that
wouldn't be the case elsewhere. Life forms could be silicon-based or iron-based
or anything else at all. They could have any number of arms and legs—or none at
all.
"Perhaps life on other planets evolved without physical
form or with no fixed form—perhaps there are aliens who are nothing more than
sentient clouds, or who have mutable bodies that can alter to suit the needs of
the moment. Maybe they can sail through space unaided, and use stellar radiation
for a food source and a sensory array, detecting changes in the radiation the
same way bats detect sound waves. Who needs eyes and ears when your entire
being resonates? Who needs a distinct brain when your consciousness is spread
throughout just like our nerve endings are with us? Why have skin when your
form is held together by electrostatic shock and mental control, and can
condense or expand at will?
"There are plenty of creatures here on Earth that are
so astoundingly different from us that we can barely comprehend them. Try
watching an octopus pull itself through a tiny crack in a glass tank sometime,
or examine a tobacco hornworm, or look at a praying mantis up close. Then think
about how small our planet is compared with the universe as a whole—it's like
finding the weirdest shaped M&M in the bag, and then realizing that you're
in an entire candy store filled with literally thousands of other kinds of
candy, most of which you've never even heard of before. A real alien would be
so far from anything we've ever imagined that we would barely be able to
comprehend its existence. And we would seem just as completely, bafflingly
bizarre to it."
Harry E. Keller:
Chemistry professor, NortheasternUniversity
'Somewhere in the universe, there must be, have been, or
will be other advanced civilizations. The chances of anyone alive today seeing
or even communicating with them are very slim. However, such problems should
not stop us from imagining what they might be like.
"First, a real alien is bilaterally symmetrical,
endothermic with excellent manipulative abilities, and has a hard container for
a brain.
"Eyes? Of course. You have to see to build a
civilization. The squid has better eyes than we do, and the eye seems to have
evolved separately a few times at least. Our alien will have eyes that may only
resemble ours superficially. A lens and iris are almost an absolute
requirement. The whites do not have to be white. Neither does the iris have to
be colored in anything like the way ours are. How many eyes? One just will not
do. Inability to perceive distance will lead to rapid extinction. Unless you
can find a good reason for it, extra eyes create evolutionary baggage and will
not persist, spiders not withstanding. Eyes being important, they will be recessed
and capable of being covered, as necessary. Our aliens are not likely to be
bug-eyed, although we cannot totally rule that out.
"Nose? An alien must have the means to breathe. It must
be symmetrical. The nose does not have to be in the middle of a face, although
that is convenient for some purposes such as sharing the air pipe with a mouth
for times of exertion. You can imagine other arrangements.
"Mouth? Must have means for ingestion of food. All
large animals have some means to capture and swallow food. Some masticate it;
others do not. Teeth are rather common on Earth but other systems of eating are
possible. The problem is that plants and animals have been in an evolutionary
war for millenia. We inherit the outcome of that war. Teeth were necessary to
eat plants that became more fibrous, an evolutionary reaction to being eaten.
There are other ways to sheer off plant food, such as what birds do. They
'chew' in their gizzards.
"Legs? Most certainly. Other means of locomotion will
be relatively slow and be relegated to armored animals and of those living in
holes. Neither of these lifestyles will lead naturally to greater intelligence.
How many legs? In our case, we adapted the forelegs for manipulation from
animals with four legs. No land animals with endoskeletons have more legs. The
implication is that aliens with two legs are more likely than those with four.
"Fur? Hair? Feathers? Scales? Something else truly
alien? The skin covering could be anything that makes sense. Real feathers are
not so likely. Because feathers are used for flight, brains will be small.
Scales are unlikely because they are particularly well-adapted for ectotherms,
although a scaly sort of skin might be possible. Fur versus hair is hard to
sort out because of my inherent bias. Fur has good reasons for being that are
not related to intelligence. If furry, our aliens probably have short fur.
"Head? If you define head as a bony enclosure for the
brain as well as the location for eyes, nose, and mouth, then it's likely. The
nose could be located above or below the mouth. Above works better for
swimming, but that's not a strict evolutionary requirement.
"Neck? Not at all necessary. Useful to swivel the head,
but you can imagine other ways to look around. It's an annoying place for big
cats to grab and strangle you with their powerful mouths.
"Arms? You must have something with which to manipulate
things. Tentacles are unlikely because of their inability to perform fine
manipulation. They usually have suckers on them and a very different purpose
than toolmaking. The number of joints could be greater, and the direction of
bend could be different.
"Fingers? You must have a way to grab tightly and a way
to pick up small objects and twist and turn them. Two fingers are probably too few.
Five is overkill. Three or four (as cartoon characters have) is about right.
Our three joints in our fingers is about right. One would not do. Two, as with
our thumbs, is unlikely."
Bernard Bates:
Physics professor, University
of Puget Sound
"An octopus is a good example of an advanced-alien
analogue on Earth. Octopuses are quite (probably human-level) intelligent and
live in a totally alien environment (compared with ours). Evolution has had to
find novel solutions to the pressures they're under—pressures completely
different than those that shaped mammals on land.
"Dolphins and chimpanzees are extremely close to
us—we're all mammals. The last common ancestor for humans and dolphins was
around 100 million years ago, and for humans and chimpanzees was about 10
million years ago. Most of the evolutionary choices leading to intelligence
were probably made before the splits occurred. The last common ancestor between
mammals and octopuses is much, much further back in time, probably 800 million
years ago.
"Aliens with advanced technology would have to be on
land (technology needs fire to kick-start it). What we would expect in order to
develop a technology comparable to ours? Hands with fingers (for delicate,
precise manipulation) are important. At least two legs are needed for
locomotion. If it has four legs, think centaurs—you need those hands to build
things.
"You need binocular vision to judge distance (to prey).
Elevated head to see predators. Eyes near the brain to reduce the time delay
(or degradation) of the visual signal. Sound and smell sensors (ears and nose).
Your survival chances improve if you can use all of the ways you can to detect
food, mates, and predators. Living in an atmosphere means sounds and smells
will arrive before the stinky, noisy predator."
Nnedi Okorafor:
Sci-fi author
"Three things are generally intrinsic about human
beings:
1. We think we know everything.
2. We think everything is about us.
3. We need things to be about us in order to care.
Thus, in most of our stories about aliens, the aliens come
because of us (be it to kill, enslave, or study us) or to take things that are
dear to us. We are also usually the first who make contact with the aliens, and
they almost always look something like us or like something familiar to us.
"I believe aliens exist. However, I don't pay much mind
to the little-green-men mythology. I don't think aliens have to be humanoid,
carbon-based, or even alive by our definition of alive. Human beings aren't
made to survive in space. If aliens arrive on Earth here, it means they have
survived in space and have the means to adapt to our atmosphere. I think it
highly possible that they'll be nothing like us.
"In my novel Lagoon, the aliens that show up in Lagos, Nigeria,
are fundamental shape-shifters with consciousness and control all the way to
the molecular level, and their molecules do not resemble or operate like
anything Earth-based. They use matter (whatever that matter is and wherever it
comes from) and they adapt to wherever they are. And their wants and needs and
methods of going about their business are wholly foreign to humans.
"I don't see why aliens couldn't be microscopic, only
be seen at wavelengths beyond human detection, be built in a way so outside of
human understanding that to look upon them would cause one to faint. I don't
think aliens have been, are, will be what we are expecting."
Tobias Buckell:
Sci-fi author
"Aliens with pointy ears and bumpy foreheads are a way
for Hollywood
to save money by applying prostheses to human beings and to move forward with
the plot. It seems strange to think the truly alien would look anything at all
like us. And yet there are examples of parallel evolution in nature: the eye of
the octopus being identical to that of a human being a famous one. Some
speculate that an alien evolved to have a civilization similar to ours would
have a similar form.
"We have examples of aliens right here on Earth to look
toward that might give us a hint of what an alien intelligence would look like.
Octopuses and squids exhibit startlingly intelligent responses and learning,
and the form of their bodies is designed for an environment alien to our own.
Tentacles and large brains seems to be a fantastic form for low-gravity or
aquatic environments. Creatures that may communicate by flashing colors across
their skin. Science fiction has a long history of exploring hard-to-understand
tentacled horrors.
"An article about the gears found in plant hoppers'
legs has gotten a lot of attention online. The idea of biology and evolution
already using cogs leads one to wonder what else might exist. Minds that
evolved silicon circuitry through natural selection? Steampunk,
radiation-powered life forms that we couldn't even approach? Thought
experiments can get rather mind-boggling. Nature always surprises.
"Talking and reacting to alien behavior will be the
hardest. We already struggle to keep patient enough to understand other
cultures and differences within our own human cultures. Dolphins, octopuses,
elephants—these all seem to be higher-order thinkers, yet we cannot communicate
well with them nor do we particularly share the planet well. What will an alien
encounter be like? How will their actions seem?
"In short, I'd assume things would be easily
misunderstood, as we all come with an existing load of baggage about such an
encounter. And their actions will depend a great deal on the environs they come
from, and the nature of their groups. Are they solitary? Or prefer herds or
small bands? What would be the mind of an intelligent predator who normally
lives alone?
If we do find other life, I have to assume that it would
hint that a great deal of life is possible. We may encounter all of the above.
Creatures like us, and yet so different from us we can barely understand them.
It might be a plethora of minds and body types, much like the world is filled
now with a wide variety of intelligences and forms. It might be quite
overwhelming . . ."
Then we have Dr Harry
E. Keller whose biography reads: “Dr. Harry Keller founded Smart Science®
Education Inc. in 1981 and incorporated in 1983. After 15 years of providing
contract consulting services mostly to Fortune 500 companies, he and his
partner created the Smart Science® technologies to provide high-quality science
learning experiences to students through the Internet. The system now has 200
online experiential science lessons with real experiments and hands-on
measurement covering all major sciences for grades 3-14, and its core
technologies have been patented.”
Rosenberg: “has
written novels for Star Trek, StarCraft, Warcraft, Exalted, Stargate Atlantis,
and Warhammer, as well as other franchises. He also writes educational books,
young adult novels, children's books, and tabletop role-playing games.” Not really
the man I’d go to for a scientific perspective on the subject which I what we
really need. But this is all speculation anyway.
Campo is SVP
Programming, Production, Dev & Content Strategy, WarnerMedia truTV, Food
Network, CBS, NYU Media & Tech Professor. Hmm, so not heavily involved in
exobiology.
Kevin James Anderson
is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for Star
Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the
co-author of the Dune prequel series.
Nnedi Okorafor is
a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children
and adults. Her works include WHO FEARS DEATH (in development at HBO into a TV
series), the BINTI novella trilogy, THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, the AKATA books and
LAGOON.
This means we have at least two scientists and a media man
and sci fi authors.When it comes to
this subject it is all speculation and based on what we know of life on Earth. Incidentally, having written some Star Trek
material is not really counted as experience in exobiology J
I had expected that Popular Mechanics might by-pass
popularism and being trendy and head straight to biologists who are active in
the field. It is a pity then that they let the ball slip for the most part. If
we find life on any planet or moon within our solar system (and the chances
seem likely) then it will be microbial or bacterial. I think that we can rule
out these visiting Earth in a flying saucer any time soon.
As I have previously noted; for decades I scoured CE3K/AE
reports for non-humanoid entity reports because
the scientists with the loudest mouths told us that is what we should expect –not humanoid forms. Then, others chimed
in and stated that the humanoid form is what we should expect –amongst these experts (“X”= The Unknown and “Spurt”
is a drip under pressure) were the former “non humanoid” loud mouths.
The problem is that we only have one Petri dish to base
everything on –life on Earth (and even that has not been fully studied because
more new species are still being found each month).We have bickering going on amongst scientists
–a lot of whom are hoping and praying that we never come across alien life
through fear. Not one scientific “name” has so far looked into the CE3K/AE data
to assess it because “UFOs are silly season stories” –yet there is the official
French space agency unit that looks at reports.
In the latest book I posed the question; who do you report a
UFO landing to? A German journalist looked into this a few years back and he
found that there appeared to be no official policy on the scenario. I contacted
NASA as well as the European Space Agency and asked if there was even a
theoretical plan for any alien craft landing on Earth and someone needing to
phone an official and calmly report: “Uh, I have a sort of First Contact
scenario here…help?” Nothing.
On what happens if an alien signal is received or craft is
detected out in space there I a bureaucratic protocol –cited in full in Beyond
UFO Contact.
What is really required is for biologists and naturalists to
look at every possible scenario in which intelligent life might develop and
what it might look like and from there we have a basis to develop things
further.
With CE3K/AE reports what we really need are trained
psychologists who could accompany investigators and would know what to look for
because in the past sleep paralysis and hypnagogic states have been accepted as
‘evidence’ of real events. The point is not to label someone a “nut” but, if
genuine and experiencing altered states then they can be referred to a doctor
if they wish.
Again, and I know people get fed up with me stating this but
witnesses/percipients are human beings not cash
cows for TV or books. Those Ufologists who screech the loudest over this
because they “do” are usually the ones who do not.
I cannot even guess at how many reports are contained in my
world wide data base but I’m guessing “thousands” about covers it. They are not
all genuine –some are hoaxes- others are misidentifications, others involve “Psychological”
explanations and most single witness reports tend to be given a low credibility
rating unless there are exceptional circumstances. Many –very many- were never even investigated but accepted as
genuine on a single or several press clippings. If we throw most of those out
we might be left with 100 or so cases. Two 1973 cases –Eupora, Mississippi
being the main one- were never investigated because of a racist attitude by the
investigators.
But I’ll stop there before I go off on yet another rant. I
will end by7 stating that we really need to step up on the exobiology side of
things.
Sci Fi authors and TV executives are not scientists or exo-biologists. So I thought "AI is supposedly the Holy Grail" of knowledge in 2025 let's see what it says". And so I typed in " What scientists think Aliens would Actually Look Like?" and here is the response:
Similar to humans due to convergent evolution
Evolutionary pressures: Scientists suggest that life on other Earth-like planets may undergo similar evolutionary pressures to those on Earth, leading to similar adaptations.
Common features: Features like bilateral symmetry, heads with sensory organs, limbs, and digestive systems have evolved multiple times independently on Earth and are therefore likely to reappear on other planets.
Intelligent life: The development of large brains, intelligence, and tool-making abilities are also seen as convergent traits that could arise on other worlds.
Potentially very different due to environmental factors
Gravity: On a high-gravity planet, life might evolve to be shorter and sturdier. On a low-gravity planet, it could be taller and more lightweight.
Atmosphere: The density and composition of an atmosphere could influence how life moves. Denser air could support creatures that "swim" through it, while an oxygen-rich atmosphere could support more energetic life forms.
Other variations: Other factors like the presence of wind, tidal locking, and unique chemical compositions could lead to highly diverse and unexpected forms, such as life that floats, climbs, or has multiple limbs for stability.
The most probable life form
Microbial life:The most likely form of extraterrestrial life, based on Earth's history, is single-celled microbial life.
I ought to point out that AI is not that great. I know one person who frequently asks AI questions and then explains in response why the AI is wrong and on the next search HIS reply is given as a fact when he has fed it false info. Asking the question again I got a more concise and likely more accurate summary:
"Scientifically, there is no way to know what aliens would look like, as no extraterrestrial life has been conclusively detected yet. However, scientific speculation suggests that their appearance would depend on their environment, and could be very different from humans, possibly resembling creatures like octopuses or birds, or even being entirely different life forms like robots, depending on their planet's gravity, atmosphere, and other conditions. "
The problem, as many who are intelligently looking into the whole UFO subject seriously,
and I believe that there are some, scientists tend to ignore accounts of UFO landings and just
roll their eyes and sigh if there is even mention of an "alien". "Little Green Men" is still a
response from these people despite any description to the contrary being given. There is no real
scientific reason for any scientist to ignore reports as looking at data is what they are supposed
to do. They are not endorsing blonde-haired, blue eyed space brothers or any of the cultish tripe
pushed out by fringe groups.
Betty and Barney Hill were not involved in an on board UFO experience. Why? "Because
it's silly flying saucer stuff". radiation exposure, landing traces and even physiological effects
are ignored or dismissed. Hopkins, Jacobs, Carpenter et al made bloody sure (while declaring
science MUST pay attention) that people in the scientific community would dismiss reports
because of what they were making up and claiming to be fact.
And it has to be said that Ufologists in general must take a huge chunk of the blame for the situation.
We have reports deliberately faked by Ufologists to hoax and discredit other Ufologists. Faking reports
for media attention and it goes on and on while they ignore any report that does not involve a "Grey" or
claims of lifelong and familial abductions.
For decades I searched out as many reports of non humanoid entities associated with UFO reports and one after another proved to be hoaxes by Ufologists or journalists or there were so many claims and counter claims that the report had to be dismissed.
One thing I did find is that there were certain entity types associated with UFOs that matched up but were largely ignored by Ufologists. Admittedly I started this work in 1974 and I do a lot of research sand do read very obscure reports ( non English) as well as recorded cases in which organisations have obviously not read their own reports because they failed to note quite obvious similarities.
It would be nice to sit down with biologists and look at entity descriptions and just ask "What do these features tell you?" It would be equally nice to have all the reports computerised and descriptions analysed but that might take years and no one is willing to carry that work out for free!
To show the mess Ufology as well as our knowledge of these cases is I next asked: "AI: what similarities are there in reported UFO entity reports?" Brace yourselves: Yes, the "God Fathers of Alien Abductions reports" totally screwed up everything which is why in videos ands on blogs all you see are "Grey" aliens (take your pick of which type!) and even well known historical cases are rebooted to make entities "Greys" -the Hills, Villas Boas, Walton and many others and there are even claims that "Contactee George Adamski did describe seeing Greys" -my response to that is so rude I will not type it.
