Planetary Life May Be Common also Intelligent Life -So Why Are UFO Reports Still Mocked?

 One has to ask why, if it is far more likely that there is intelligent life in the universe -something many scientists who do not suffer Fear of Alien Reality (FAR) syndrome are now claiming- are reports of UFOs ignored openly or laughed at?

I would like a genuine and open conversation with these scientists to ask why they are ruling out testimony from people in all walks of life including scientists?

The Independent Story by Andrew Griffin

Life might be much more likely than we realised, scientists say – and it could help us find aliens

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/life-might-be-much-more-likely-than-we-realised-scientists-say-and-it-could-help-us-find-aliens/ar-AA1zedI0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b2a65c10e2cf4db1dd656001c804aa11&ei=76

Life on Earth might be a lot less unusual than we thought, according to a new study.

For decades, researchers have believed in the “hard steps” theory of life, which suggests that we needed to go through a whole set of very unlikely events to get to the intelligent life that surrounds us today.

But the new study suggests it was not that unlikely or hard in the first place. In fact, it might have been relatively straightforward.

If so, that has important effects for life throughout the universe. It suggests that life might have been likely to form elsewhere, too – and that alien life could be waiting in more places than we thought.

The “hard steps” theory had suggested that life was probably rare: it would need a whole host of things to go right to begin.

“This is a significant shift in how we think about the history of life,” said Jennifer Macalady, professor of geosciences at Penn State and co-author on the paper. “It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less about luck and more about the interplay between life and its environment, opening up exciting new avenues of research in our quest to understand our origins and our place in the universe.”

In contrast with the traditional view, researchers suggest that life formed when it was able to because of the global environment. It might be a relatively predictable process that happens as the planet goes on, the researchers suggest.

“We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist,” said Mills, who worked in Professor Macalady’s astrobiology lab at Penn State, in a statement. “Humans didn't evolve ‘early’ or ‘late’ in Earth’s history, but ‘on time,’ when the conditions were in place. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time, and maybe other planets are able to achieve these conditions more rapidly than Earth did, while other planets might take even longer.”

The researchers behind the new study propose a number of ways to test their belief. That includes looking for other planets and understanding whether those supposed hard steps are unique to our planet, for instance – or even looking at our own planet, to see whether they might have happened more than once here.

The work is described in a paper, ‘A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life’, published in the journal Science Advances.

Proximity Volume 1

 

John Hanson and Shirley Edwards

 236pp

Paperback

Black and White/ colour images profusely illustrated

£18.22

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The UFO books by John Hanson delves into the historical and paranormal aspects of the topic, published by Haunted Skies. The paperback books offer an intriguing narrative in English, focusing on real-life stories and encounters related to UFO sightings and alien phenomena. Perfect for those interested in the mysteries of the unknown, this book series explores the fascinating world of non-fiction storytelling in the genre of the paranormal.

Very few UFO books impress me these days as they are usually the same old-same old and usually leave me asking why I spent my valuable money on them.  There are the exceptions such as John Hanson's Haunted Skies UFO Encyclopedia series which is not as boring as "encyclopedia" may make it seem. Those are thoroughly researched books and many cases often left "hanging" have been looked into revealing factors that previous Ufologists never asked about or bothered with.

It cost me a fair amount but I at least have a full set of HS and every single volume is full of post-it notes and the more post-it notes shows how valuable a reference a book can be.  Having specialised in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity reports since 1974 I have to admit that Haunted Skies as a series turned up a good few UK reports that I had never heard of -because they were reported to and investigated by Hanson.

HS as a series does not just focus on the UK as anyone who has ever read a volume will know. The in depth work on the Rendlesham Forest Incident  -The Halt Perspective for instance are valuable sources for serious researchers.

So what does Proximity Volume 1 have going for it?  Firstly, it brings together some of the best cases from the HS series (which are hard to come by volumes now).  There is a look at some of the personalities involved in Ufology from J Allen Hynek, Trevor James Constable, Dr Condon, the now sadly forgotten Arthur Constance and many others including astronauts.  There is a look at UFO Disclosure but the main "meat" of the bookare the actual witness/percipient accounts.

There are reports beginning in 1870, through the early 1900s and 1920s through to the 1960s; everything from missing time incidents to recalled abductions and close proximity sightings that caused physiological effects in the observers. There are the claims of sightings and then threats and intimidation of observers to keep them quiet. Enough is presented here to make you ask "What is going on?"

But there is more. There are features within the book such as a large section on the Betty and Barney Hill case and one asking whether Morris K Jessup was murdered for getting too close to the truth.  There is a look at the claims of George Adamski and correlations from other UFO reports. One thing that stands out are the stories of the people who became involved in Ufology and how they set up groups or investigated personally reports as they came in (such as Gavin Gibbons who looked into the 1954 Jessie Roestenberg CE3).

The volume is not just a boring citation of report after report but fills in many things that people want to know such as "Who was this person? Were they a loony?" or even "Has anyone else ever reported what that person saw or says happened to them?" You will find those questions answered where ever possible in this book -Shirley Edwards adding notes where necessary.  And on top of everything else the book is full of photographs and illustrations many of which have not seen print before -some in colour and some in black and white. The last chapter of the book looks at some cases from the 1970s on that will no doubt get fuller treatment in the next volume.

If you are looking for a book that genuinely looks at the phenomena involved then this has to be it whether you are just curious or trying to learn more to become active in Ufology. The book is highly recommended.

Note: John is also interviewed and looks at his work on the Haunted Skies Project here: https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2024/09/john-hanson-haunted-skies-and-british.html

You Look At The UFOs and I'll Stick With The Entities

 

There is a reason why I stepped away from simple UFO reports and it has become a greater problem in the last 20 years.  

Online reporting.

Or, more accurately, anonymous online reporting. MUFON and other groups allow this "to get to the truth. About a year ago I did what these organisations do not do: I fact checked reports. I know, how naughty of me.

Firstly, in one case an alleged witness could not have observed a "UFO formation" fly over hills to the West of where he claimed to have been standing because west is out over the sea but the fella checked a compass.  Out of a selected twenty reports made anonymously online njot one managed to get through a basic fact check.  I found the UK MUFON rep had scored 100 out of 100 UFO reports as "unidentified". There were obvious aircraft, a satellite and so on. Those reports if they ever get tallied up will 'prove' massive UFO activity.

Claims of alien abduction were accepted yet some were almost quoting from a specific source. Of course, anonymous with no contact details (in two cases the emails didn't exist who can tell hoaxer from someone with a psychological condition or a genuine percipient? But this all gets taken by the organisations and added to the mess they make - look at Stoner and Marsden's book The Abduction Files: a debunkers delight!

https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-alien-abduction-files-just.html

If I went online and reported encountering a UFO and an entity that was 7 feet tall, had four arms and spindly legs and looked like a giant carrot and I get friends to report a UFO at the same time  -that is in the data base. One supposes that no one really checks these reports because they cannot. 

With any work I have carried out I never accepted an anonymous report because if the person(s) contacting me felt it that important then they give their names. Incidentally, in 50 years no one who requested anonymity has ever been openly identified -unlike in Ufology where confidential information is sold on or given out to news media for the publicity and TV appearances. 

 If someone claims they were lifelong abductees and "it was the Greys" no one checks. Again; added to the data base because details match up (because all those details are online).

Faking a report of a UFO sighting is easier by far and does not take much imagination. A regular aircraft becomes a "mystery (possibly alien) drone" in a mass panic. In other cases the aircraft become "mysterious black triangular craft". In the old days when some actually did investigate reports LITS (Lights In The Sky) were low priority although I know of US investigators who spent a couple years looking into one such report -with no conclusion as a pin  point of light is a pin point of light. Daylight Discs (DD) -basically day time sightings of any object were more of a priority. A DD and physical traces was a priority. A CE3K..."We'll ignore that one".

Today the CGI/AI generated UFO fakes are going out daily on You Tube and blogs as well as Tik-Tok -views and money and 'celebrity' status are far more important than the truth.  And when we see the utter mess the US has become with whistle blower after whistle blower revealing nothing but making money from TV and fakery on a weekly basis and when caught out "I never checked the source" but another fake item iss on its way the next week and then next month and you have to ask how many times someone can be caught out lying before  people realise?

So I stick to the CE3K/AE reports. 

It's An Unusual Comet or Alien Probe -Which are you betting your money on?

 

Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

Victor Tangermann

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/four-telescopes-confirm-theres-something-100023490.html

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By definition, scientists don't know what to expect as they inspect the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, since it's only the third object detected from beyond the solar system in human history.

But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert points out, a quartet of powerful telescopes — NASA's Hubble, SPHEREx,  Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and James Webb Space Telescope — have now turned their powerful gazes to observe 3I/ATLAS.

And while there's a broad consensus among experts that the object is a comet — a small, icy body that releases gases as it passes by the Sun — the data tells a strikingly more nuanced story, making clear that the object is deeply strange in ways that will make it a topic of study and comparison for many years.

For one, SPHEREx and James Webb observations have both shown that its coma, which a large atmosphere of gas and dust that surrounds a comet's nucleus, bears a much higher proportion of carbon dioxide gas than expected. In fact, scientists found it to have the highest carbon dioxide to water ratio ever observed in a comet.

TESS, which had technically already spotted the object months ahead of its July discovery that were later found in its archived observations, showed the object was already bright and active when it was six astronomical units from the Sun, well past the orbit of Jupiter, far more distant to be showing activity than most comets.

NASA's Hubble revealed a "teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off of the comet's solid, icy nucleus," yet it "does not feature a distinct cometary tail," according to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb (who has colorfully suggested that the object could have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.)

The object's origins remain as elusive as ever. In a preprint paper, an international team of researchers posited that 3I/ATLAS may contain "ices exposed to higher levels of radiation than Solar System comets," or it could've "formed close to the CO2 ice line in its parent protoplanetary disk."

For now, we'll have to be patient until the findings — as well as any future observations before it screams back out of the solar system's other side — undergo further analysis and peer review.

By the time the object makes its departure, it will have made relatively close flybys of Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. Loeb has proposed that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter should have a closer look, as the object comes within less than two million miles of the Red Planet.

And roughly five months later, NASA's Juno probe could intercept it as it approaches Jupiter. Perhaps then, we could finally get a better sense of its peculiar nature.

They Passed Polygraphs, They Had Scars, Was It All Real?

Life might have come from outer space, scientists say -That Took A Few Decades to Accept

 In 1984 a book appeared. It was titled Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism and the authors were two leading names in research -Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe and it put forward the hypothesis that life that first appeared on Earth had begun in space and had spread throughout the universe via panspermia,

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by factors such as space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, and comets, rather than having originated on Earth. This theory proposes that if a planet were to be hit by an asteroid, the impact could eject fragments of the planet into space, potentially carrying microorganisms to other celestial bodies where they could survive and flourish.

This could be seen as a continuation of their work in the 1979 book Diseases from Space wherein they propose that many of the most common diseases which afflict humanity, such as influenza, the common cold and whooping cough, have their origins in extraterrestrial sources.

Both are excellent books but I do recall the name-calling from other scientists (especially those who were of a religious leaning). In fact, at two talks that I gave at the British Flying Saucer Bureau in the 1980s the theory was mocked (by people with no scientific understanding or interest) and I was asked what this had to do with flying saucers. If I remember correctly I tried  to explain but, well, "Mr Adamski has told us where our visitors come from". I just shrugged.

It is strange that so many things postulated decades ago -likelihood that the Moon once had water and that Mars also had water and an atmosphere and possible life- were all ridiculed but as we "progress" so the current stream of scientists jump on those band wagons (grants and more papers to get more grants -marvellous how money can change scientists minds).

For decades I was digging for reports of non-humanoid looking entities since, scientists insisted, that is what we should expect. Suddenly, they changed their minds because, they now said, the humanoid form was what would be expected. They still insist on this until you hand over a report of a UFO in which humanoid entities were reported then it's "rubbish".

And one thing to bear in mind is that variations in the humanoid form should be expected based on the environment and many other factors. We are t6alking about a process, if correct, that has spread the seeds of life around the universe, not just our galaxy, for millions on millions of years.

The Independent https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/life-might-have-come-from-outer-space-scientists-say/ar-AA1JdGq9?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=186de41b51a145c289b9f22692ccea2e&ei=41

The seeds of life on Earth might have come from outer space – and might be widespread throughout the rest of the universe, scientist say.

Researchers have found complex organic molecules in a disc around a “protostar” in a major breakthrough. Those molecules are seen as the precursors to the building blocks of life, which go on to become sugars and amino acids that are then combined into the complex flora and fauna that surrounds us.

Researchers have found such complex organic molecules in other places before. But the new findings fill in a previously mysterious missing link – one that could suggest that life is more abundant than we realise.

When cold protostar becomes a young star, surrounded by a disc of dust and gas, it is a violent process that includes intense radiation and the hurling out of gas. Researchers had been concerned that the extreme nature of that process could “reset” the chemical compounds available around a star, meaning that they would have to be formed in the discs that at the same time are making planets.

But the new findings suggest that complex molecules can stick around through that process, meaning they will be inherited by the discs that follow.

The findings are reported in a new study, ‘A deep search for Complex Organic Molecules toward the protoplanetary disk of V883 Ori’, published in the The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Learn The Truth

 

The Most Disturbing Encounter: Creepy Humanoids on a Deserted Road

When It Comes To Factual CE3K/Entity Reports...Factual Lost

Despite my own good advice yesterday I decided to watch some You Tube videos on UFO encounters and Abduction reports. I reminded myself later on in the day that it was my own fault for ignoring my own advice.

Apparently the entities involved in the 1950s Kelly-Hopkinville report were "what we would describe today as Greys". No. No they were not.  I mean the number of illustrations over the decades and you are so dumb ass or desperate to get views by saying "Greys" and you ignore them all. 

 Describing an encounter and the now all too familiar use of detestable AI art gave us the account that described entities that were clearly NOT "Greys" but the AI art depicted Greys. 

In some cases the narrator (with a brain one step up from an amoeba -my apologies to amoebas everywhere) suggested (emphasising as this WAS the true answer) that the unusual entities described were nothing more than "screen images" to hide the fact that Greys were involved. Oh yes, Budd Hopkins' "screen image" that developed and hid so many lies. I once received taped recordings from my friend in the US, Lindy Whitehurst, of Budd Hopkins talks. I recall that it all seemed so plausible when he revealed what he had discovered. Something that even the Lorenzens had failed to discover, and that was that behinds the abduction phenomenon lay...The Greys!   

But, listening, I realised something was wrong. You see, Hopkins noted hypnotic regression bringing up forgotten memories -a sighting of a deer for instance- and that was all the percipient recalled.  However, Hopkins was convinced that there was more and so the deer sighting was looked at again and the percipient became very stressed and could recall nothing. However, Hopkins was convinced that the deer was a "screen memory" and pushed on until the real culprit was disclosed -the Greys!

At the time I was reassured that all of this hypnosis work was being carried out under strict protocols and oversight. What a load of crap that turned out to be. Lies, lies, lies and more lies while the alleged percipients were being put through uncalled for psychological trauma. Hopkins Comrade-in-Fraud David Jacobs can be found on You Tube videos telling people that they did not just see a UFO "THEY WERE ABDUCTED!!" Yes, he does sort of shout that.

Of course, as Ann Druffel pointed out on numerous occasions, there used to be reports involving short entities with larger heads but never what Hopkins described as "Greys" and as I have pointed out in posts and books, the descriptions of "a true Grey" are so varied that how anyone took this seriously I have no idea but as a diversion Hopkins and Jacobs concocted the story the the Greys were never the true brains behind all of this. Oh no, we had reptiloids, mantis-like creatures, Tall Whites and so many more and looking at the drawings by alleged percipients you see a mixture of aliens from popular sci fi TV shows and movies.

But this does not matter to You Tubers, or even some bloggers it seems; no, what counts are are the views because there is money in that and maybe even a degree of celebrity status in that. Put in images of Greys -even where it contradicts the established facts as written down decades ago- and people will accept what you say. There are certain YT channels where the use of AI generated art is so awful that the "percipient" in the account changes appearance repeatedly while the entities ...well, it is idiot generated AI art.

Why do people call for "Disclosure" ("Next year is UFO Disclosure year" they keep claiming since 1998) and the truth when they accept proven con-men/liars words on everything and accept provable false information?   And they throw money at these con-men!!

No, Thomas Mantell was NOT shot down by a flying saucer. Fact.

George Adamski was a con-man.

Cedric Allingham was a hoax -the man never existed.

Ernest Arthur Bryant and the whole "Scoriton Mystery" of 1965 was a 110% proven hoax (despite what You Tubers and bloggers say)

The only abduction cases are American and involve Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton. Why would citizens of any other country be of interest?  Ufologists keep using these cases as they are tried and tested and Gods forbid they do anything like genuine investigation or first hand research.

People claiming to have observed a UFO landing and entities are flatly told "No. You were probably abducted and it was Greys" and when they insist they can account for every minute of time they are told to go away. One person was told by MUFONs specialist in Abductions -there are no landings and take offs only abductions- that they were denying the facts or that it might be a "psychological problem".  Lose one possibly genuine reported account and data for research.

Facts lose out to You Tube Likes and subscribers. Only sensationalist money making books sell (if people bother reading). Ufology is and has been for decades, nothing more than a money spinning circus of fraud and entertainment.

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