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Monday, 14 November 2022
Missing People & "The UFO Connection" - Higdon Case A Personal Comment
Sunday, 13 November 2022
"And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?" A Brief Answer For "Veteran Ufologists"
It seems that again and again I hear Ufologists state: "And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?" On hearing this I want to whack themn over the head with C.D. B. Bryan's Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind book (it's hefty).
I have said and written this so many times before but, if you are a "35 year veteran Ufologist" what the actual f have you been doing in over three decades? Watching You Tube videos? Putting your backside on a chair at talks? Chasing after a dot of light in the night sky to "break the case wide open"? Seriously, you are not that bright and I am guessing that all of those UFO books they claim to own either do not or are just put on to bookshelves to look impressive.
"And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?" just...well, after 50 years of looking into these reports and having a book shelf of well thumbed as well as annotated books on the subject I bang my head on the table (my doctor says that I should not do this but what the heck). What exactly have these Ufologists been reading about -the latest MUFON scandal? US government disinformation campaigns?
Hynek dealt with CE3Ks in his The UFO Experience as well as The Hynek UFO Report. Then we have a slew of books by the Lorenzens who specialised in looking into such accounts and reported on them in The Humanoids, ed. by C. Bowen; Flying Saucer Occupants, UFOs Over the Americas, Abducted, etc., etc.. The High Priests of Abduction also wrote books, were featured in magazine and newspaper articles as well as TV shows and documentaries. Even Otto O. Binder's rather alien sex obsessed Flying saucers Are Watching Us dealt with the subject.
John Keel -he wrote on these cases.
Jacques Vallee wrote about these cases.
MUFON Journal, Flying Saucer Review, APRO Bulletin and many others carried reports on these cases.
I could give a whole reading list of books from 1965-2021 dealing with the subject. The above are all just basic reading. Buy my books and get an education and ignore Hopkins, Jacobs and Mack.
The statement also shows that the subject has been treated with little interest over the decades; 1964 no one could be bother visiting the Reeves farm, in 1973 UFO investigators, even when asked, refused to contact the Euporia witnesses who were black. I could provide a very long list of CE3K reports from the United States that no one bothered looking into -it is okay, though as the Ufologistsd have the newsclipping!
Firstly, it was not all "little guys" -yes, the most common type of entity reported was short -up to 5 feet tall (1.5m) and had oversized heads with largish eyes and were spindly. NOT "Greys" think more the end of the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The above looks about right but there were subtle differences as not all had the very long fingers we saw in Spielberg's movie. This was the type of entity seen during the alleged abduction of the Hills, Walton and Moody. The head below is about right (we are going by percipient verbal reports not photos here).
The full figure below is correct with clothing being described as tight grey, white, black and silver in colour. This is a costume and the eyes would have been normal in appearance but large.The movie itself has been seen by millions since 1977 with images appearing in books, magazines, newspapers as well as merchandise and unlike in the UK other countries, particularly the United States show it regularly on TV.If you look at the TV movie based on the Hills encounter, The UFO Incident (1975) the budget was not great but the masks worn to represent the aliens is spot on -false Ufology has tried to reboot this as involving "The Greys" when it did not).
Above: The Hills (the great James Earl Jones as Barney and Estelle Parsons as Betty) being "abducted" The UFO Incident (1975)Below: Betty (Estelle Parsons) interacts with the alien crew. The UFO Incident (1975)
There is one morte thing that it seems no one in Ufology noted: there was a very tall spindly alien at the end of the Spielberg that many viewers felt "creeped out" over. And, uh...it introduced the Greys to us (well, one of the Grey types)...
Above and below images that were probably embedded in minds from an early age and may -may- have sparked many accounts of Greys under hypnosis. From Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Those were "The Small Guys". Also noted were far more human looking entities who varied in height from 5 feet to 6 feey plus (1.5 -1.8m). Again, clothing varied from coverall type with uncovered head or helmeted/masked head. These entities often elicited the response from observers that "Wearing normal clothes I wouldn't look at them twice on a crowded street".
It was suggested that the third most commonly reported entity type was the hairy, bellicose dwarf. However, there were not that many cases of these and some still suggest that they may belong to the "mystery hairy hominid" subject but they tend not to have much knowledge of the cases.
Yes, there are other such as those seen at Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1973. In fact over that short period there were several other reports that might be describing the same entity type but, again, they were not looked into (two reports from Mississippi involved "black" witnesses and so were ignored despite the strangeness of the cases and possible correlations).
Are we dealing with androids which, as Wikipedia notes: "An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids were completely within the domain of science fiction and frequently seen in film and television, but recent advances in robot technology now allow the design of functional and realistic humanoid robots.
Or are some robots? Again, let's have Wikipedia define robot and they are far more widespread on Earth than most people think: "A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics.
"Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (ASIMO) and TOSY's TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed swarm robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic nano robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense of intelligence or thought of its own."
One migh assume that robots would have been perfecte4d by a more advanced civilisation and certainly the objects encountered by Robert Taylor in Livingstone, Scotland in 1979 could be robots. There are other reports but Taylor's is probably the best known.
Again, officially, no one has ever encountered an alien life form and the "turn a blind eye" of SETI and astronomers and science in general when it comews to these reports means that they can safely claim this until they retire and their pensions kick in.
There is tyhe possibility of "lurkers" within the solar system -hiding on or behind asteroids and monitoring Earth from a distance. But I think that the late biologist, zoologist and world traveller Ivan T. Sanderson explained why there are variations of "occupants" in reports. This appeared in the paperback Uninvited Visitors (1969 p. 133):
"Just imagine what would happen on some other planetary body if one of our space-probes was manned by (1) a middle aged Bushman woman, (2) a six-foot-six-inch Nigerian from somewhere around Katsena, with his near bhlack skin color and his flowing white robes and turban, (3) a blonde, buxom, Swedish girl, (4) a blue-black-skinned Melanesian with a full mop of branching red hair, (5) a Japanese child, and (6) a Neapolitan man. with shiny, black, wavy hair and an ivory skin. I can imagine the inhabitants of such a planet , if intelligent at all, going into near hysterics ande their authorities immediately locking up any who said thjey had encountered such a coterie coming out of a space vehicle and collecting plants and domestic animals."
Sanderson continued:
"The situation would become more confounded if only one or two of these six types happened to be seen manning a space traveling vehicle. And if only one of the types was seen at a time in various places and by different people, the debate among the witnesses as to which was telling the truth and which imagining things could well lead to bloodshed. This is just about the situation in which we (terrestrial man) are today. So let us try to be a bit more logical."
Unfortunately, finding good samples of Sanderson's Six is a tad difficult with copyrights and nothing showing up as exact matches in colour image searches so here is the best I could do.
There are various things that can discolour human skin and blue skin can be caused by not enough oxygen in the blood or silver in the blood. Green skin and reddened skin is also not known and some people are so white they are almost ghostly!
Paul Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was from Bellingham, Washington whose skin turned a purple-blue color over a period of about a decade. His skin was described as having turned blue after he took a homemade silver chloride colloid and rubbing a solution of colloidal silver on his face in an attempt to treat problems with his sinuses, dermatitis, acid reflux and other issues.
Above: Paul KarasonJust look around or use the internet for what it was intended to do: bring knowledge into your home. Just look at the variety of peoples and skin colourations and all humans! And if you are a Ufologist do some research and do not show your ignorance with that dumb line: "And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?"
Scientists: "There Is No Other Intelligent Life In The Universe. Maybe. Probably. We Have No Idea."
Here we go again with people earning big salaries churning out the same old same old dogma. Other than that some good points (but from the writer not scientists).
Images added
Article by Dave Axe https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-theory-why-might-alone-010721240.html
More and more astronomers are coming around to the idea that we’re not alone in the universe. To them, it’s a matter of math, and humility. With potentially trillions of life-supporting planets out there, why would ours be the only one to evolve a high-tech civilization?
But if extraterrestrials do exist, we still haven’t met them yet. (Probably.) You’d think out of trillions of chances for life to spawn in the universe, we’d have found signs of other intelligent life by now, right?
Now a team based at NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Even more chillingly, we’re on track to “filter” ourselves out of existence as well, so to speak. In that sense, understanding why we haven’t met other civilizations—that is, what aliens may have done to destroy themselves—could hold the key to saving our own civilization.
“The key to humanity successfully traversing such a universal filter is… identifying those attributes in ourselves and neutralizing them in advance,” JPL astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and his coauthors wrote in a new study that appeared online on Oct. 23 and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Not everyone in the sciences buys the idea of the Great Filter. “It feels overly deterministic, as if the Great Filter is a physical law or a single looming force that confronts every rising technological civilization,” Wade Roush, a science lecturer and author of Extraterrestrials, told The Daily Beast. “We have no direct evidence of such a force.”
But there’s no disputing the
theory’s impact. The Great Filter was originally proposed by Robin Hanson, a
By “explosive,” he’s referring to the possibility of a civilization achieving cheap spaceflight and colonizing a lot of other planets, fast. In Hanson’s theory, there’s something—or a lot of somethings—that prevents intelligent life from thriving on its home planet, expanding to other planets and surviving long enough to make contact with aliens such as us.
At least one leading advocate of the search for alien life has no objections to the theory. “I think it is plausible,” Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist, told The Daily Beast.
To understand the Great Filter, Jiang and his coauthors turned a mirror on humanity. Whatever seems likeliest to kill us might also pose an existential threat to intelligent life on other planets, they proposed. They drew up a short list of the biggest threats to the human species, all but one of which are entirely our own fault.
Sure, an asteroid might hit Earth with enough force to kill pretty much everything on the planet. That’s not necessarily something we can prevent. But the other civilization-killers the JPL team think are likely are also self-inflicted. Nuclear war. Pandemic. Climate change. Runaway artificial intelligence.
Jiang’s team chalks up these existential risks to what they describe as deeply ingrained dysfunction in intelligent beings such as humans. “Dysfunction may snowball quickly into the Great Filter,” the researchers wrote.
But dysfunction isn’t inevitable, Jiang and his coauthors stressed. “The foundation for many of our possible filters finds its roots in immaturity,” they wrote. We could grow up as a species, dismantle our nukes, switch to clean energy, tamp down on the zoonotic viruses that cause the worst pandemics and even develop better technology for deflecting planet-killing asteroids.
All of these reforms require humanity to work together, the JPL team wrote: “History has shown that intraspecies competition and, more importantly, collaboration, has led us towards the highest peaks of invention. And yet, we prolong notions that seem to be the antithesis of long-term sustainable growth. Racism, genocide, inequity, sabotage… the list sprawls.”
With peace, love and understanding—and some major technological breakthroughs—we just might survive our own self-destructive tendencies and defy the Great Filter. And if we can work together to get past the filter, it stands to reason other civilizations could, too. Our own survival should give us hope that someday, somehow, we’ll meet the other Great Filter survivors.
Or maybe not. Hanson himself thinks Jiang and company got the Great Filter, and the potential solutions to it, partially wrong.
The global cooperation Jiang and company advocated as the means of our survival could be the very thing that ends up destroying us, Hanson told The Daily Beast. “Clearly they recommend more centralized control and governance of our civilization,” Hanson said. “But I actually see excess governance centralization as the most likely contribution to our future Great Filter.”
In Hanson’s conception, the more we decentralize, the more likely some of us to survive and thrive. Imagine isolated homesteaders riding out a devastating pandemic, or private space-explorers—your Jeff Bezoses and Elon Musks of the world—establishing off-world colonies on the moon or Mars. Colonies that could endure even as some calamity wipes out everyone on Earth.
Other critics think the entire Great Filter theory is bunk. It’s possible we haven’t met aliens yet not because they’re all dead, but because… well, we haven’t met them yet. The universe is vast. Even if there are billions of thriving alien civilizations, they’re almost certainly very far away. It’s going to take patience, and a lot of searching, to eventually find them.
“The Great Filter theory
depends on the assumed observational result that nobody is out there,” Seth
Shostak, an astronomer with the California-based SETI Institute, told The Daily
Beast. “But that conclusion is far too premature. We’ve just begun to search.”
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Well, Seth Shostak is the astronomer who almost appears to be terrified at the prospect of other intelligent life being found and here he is cheering on the SETI....though that is his free meal ticket for life so maybe not unbiased?
I did like the fact that “probably” was added into the line about not having been contacted by aliens. Perhaps that was a reference to the current interest in UFOs? (NO. I am not going to let an official disinformation program force me into using “UAP”).
When you put “Theoretical” in front of any job title you know that, basically, there has to be no physical proof or even actual data involved just a lot of hyperbole - exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally but pontificated upon by those involved to keep the grants and pay cheques coming in.
We have been over this ground over and over again to the point that it is the skeleton of a sad dead horse being dragged around a dusty deserted town.
Not one of these people has
ever encountered an alien, received a communication from an alien civilization,
stepped off this planet and some have limited knowledge of the life forms on
this planet. Yet we are supposed to listen to them. How many of them has suggested that Close
Encounters of the Third Kind or UFO landing reports need to be studied to
assess their validity and what we can learn from them? Not one. A bunch of fake
videos has everyone wetting their pants and listening to one of the worst actors
around (Luis Elizondo). Yes, light things whizzing about the sky are the things
to look at (hey, just a wake up call but if there are genuine constructed craft
not from this planet flying around…who or what do you think is in them?
Elizondo can tell you, he said so on camera…uh, but then…he cannot possibly
actually tell us as he is still a
Astronomers will go for the grants and safe jobs and would never actually rock, tip or wobble the good ship cash cow. Dogma is what keeps jobs secure and it is almost comical how some put forward theories that support some of the “no life in the universe” group…who then turn to argue and attack the theory. It’s like Ufology.
When scientists from all
fields stop being led by the military and intelligence community and do
independent work and stop pushing their petty terrestrial and unscientific
ideas and start looking at the data in UFO reports we may get somewhere. Until then all they are depositing on us is a
huge heap of Dr Brian Cox
Saturday, 12 November 2022
Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact
Or so an article by Victor Tangermann tells us:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/scientists-preparing-for-alien-contact/ar-AA142fjp?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3bcc391b47af4055b14583ef8dd7ea01
Hello Out There
The University of St. Andrews in Scotland has announced the formation of a new research hub last week, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for the day we might make first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization.
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Post Detection-Hub is meant to be a meeting point for experts to devise a unified way to respond to aliens — in case they do get in touch with us, or vice versa.
"Science fiction is awash with explorations of the impact on human society following discovery of, and even encounters with, life or intelligence elsewhere," said John Elliott, coordinator of the hub at the University of St Andrews, in a statement.
"But we need to go beyond thinking about the impact on humanity," he added. "We need to coordinate our expert knowledge not only for assessing the evidence but also for considering the human social response, as our understanding progresses and what we know and what we don’t know is communicated."
Alien Conduct
Earlier this year, NASA scientists updated a new message to beam out to any potentially intelligent life in the cosmos. But what would we do if they were to actually reply?
The new Scottish hub's purpose is to fill a policy gap by coming up with internationally agreed-upon procedures in case we ever make contact.
So far, the only commonly agreed upon rules have been set out by the SETI community, as laid out in the SETI Institute's "Declaration of Principles Concerning the Conduct of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
Message Received
But those rules are very vague. The SETI Post-Detection Hub is planning to overhaul and expand upon them significantly.
"Will we ever get a message from ET?" Elliot said. "We don’t know."
"But we do know that we cannot afford to be ill prepared — scientifically, socially, and politically rudderless — for an event that could turn into reality as early as tomorrow and which we cannot afford to mismanage," he added.
Friday, 11 November 2022
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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?
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