Strange Aliens From Outer Space And Others

I have just had to revert some posts to drafts so that they are no longer available.

My reason for doing this is quite simple: copyright theft.

You see, with the internet I know that there are a lot of people playing at being ufologists or cryptozoologists etc and they have no real knowledge or data base.  So they copy and paste huge chunks of my articles as their own.  That happens. Annoying but there you go.

But quite by accident I found out that a lot of UFO forums and sites are using illustrations I drew and, again, I have no problem solong as there is credit given to myself as the artist.  Pleading ignorance of the law is no excuse and this usage is known as copyright theft.

To be honest I am sick to death of everyone using my material and illustrations and giving no credit.

It stops now.  You use my illustrations without giving credit on your site I AM going to sue.

1950 and two dead aliens -both in Germany?

 Published in the German magazine Neue Illustrierte just after the success of the Wiesbaden photo in April, 1950 under  the title "Der Mars-Mensch" -The Martian Man.

1st April, 1950  Wiesbaden, Germany

Wilhelm Sprunkel, journalist of the Wiesbaden daily newspaper "Wiesbadener Tagblatt", in Germany, set up an April's Fools prank for the 1st April, 1950, issue. He had read a flying saucer story in some other newspaper and decided the matter was ideal for such a prank. what he did then was contact the liaison officer of the Wiesbaden US Army base and explained that he needed to take a photo of two soldiers for a flying saucer prank he was planning. At the time German civilians dressing up in a US uniform might have caused a few problems.

Obviously the liaison officer was a bit worried and asked his superior if this was okay and he was told it was! In fact the approval came from the US Army headquarters in Heidelberg.

Photographer Hans Scheffler took photos of his son Peter, aged 5, walking between two soldiers. He then produced a collage and over-painting of an alien over his son's image. The weird alien apparently had only one foot resting on some sort of small disc, a big head with some sort of "Y-shaped nose and two large eyes. "It" was also equipped with what was meant to be a breathing apparatus.

Schefflerworked hard and also made a photograph of a flying saucer wreck and a photograph of the saucer flying above Wiesbaden.

The hoax story was published in the newspaper on 1st April, 1950. The story told of a huge flying disc that flew over Wiesbaden and crashed in a nearby wood in Bleidenstadter Kopf. Readers were told thatvthey should remain confident about the matter, since the crew-member was in a secure place, at the Neroberg hospital in the city,and the military had "reinforced radar surveillance", 

The alien, who would float on a rotary disc, was walked around near the hospital everyday between 2 and 3 p.m. so that he could get acclimatised to our gravity and the breathing apparatus was also furnished by the military.

The hoax apparently had some local success and was believed by another newspaper who repeated the account! . A female journalist wanted to buy the photographic rights for publication in another newspaper and Sprunkel took over 20 minutes to convince her that it was just a prank.

The matter was then completely forgotten until 1977 when an FOIA request for FBI UFO documents showed that some anonymous person had sent the photograph of the "alien" to the FBI and claimed the space visitor had been photographed in New Mexico. Cue author William Moore hearing about it  and he put it in his Roswell book.

When German ufologist Klaus Webner saw the poor photocopy of the picture in Moore's book in 1981, he explained that he knew about this prank as he had found the newspaper article in their archive and gotten the explanation first hand from Sprunkel and Scheffler.

BUT no. The UFO believers were not having that but, it is true and I wrote at least two articles on this in the 1980s -with the help of CENAPs Werner Walter.

It Is Probably The Last Book

It is very likely that my next prose bool: Unidentified - Identified will be my last.  I have twelve (?) books and publications under my belt and that covers a great deal.

The new book will be available in October.  writing it has not been easy.  Working 1100 hrs to 2300 hrs each day, writing, editing is not good when you have eye problems.  It is not good when it results in extreme hand and arm pain.

My first love is field work, wildlife or otherwise and I intend to carry on with that but if typing this hurts -so 200-500 pp books are gone!

So there's the announcement!

The other announcement is that the last lot of people I spoke to about a "Mysteries" TV series pulled out of the project bacause the owner of the company "changed interests". pfah

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Final Editing

Ignacio Darnaude (1931-2018)

I am somewhat ashamed to say that I missed this announcement on the Inexplicata blog on 28th June:

Ignacio Darnaude (1931-2018)

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Ignacio Darnaude Rojas, one of Spain's foremost UFO researchers and a staunch defender to the end of the UMMO controversy. Mr. Darnaude's reach spanned continents and decades, being a friend and colleague to several generations of researchers.

His written works included Preguntas Metafíscas, La Vida Después de la Muerte, El Desafío Extraterrestre en el Siglo XXI, Libros Revelados y Síndrome Contacto E.T. and extensive list of articles and newsletters.

Despite the slow change of scholarly ufology into a more commercial activity, Darnaude never lost faith in his chosen field. In an interview with José Manuel García Bautista, he noted: [Ufology] has not become stagnant. There are cases wherever you look, but since they do not appear in the media, people have unplugged from the subject. There are UFO cases worldwide, there is a great deal of information, but it does not reach the public since there isn't any interest in publishing UFO stories. But the field is not stagnant at all."

Rest in Peace.

Unidentified - Identified: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity Encounters

I am currently up to page 120 of the new book Unidentified - Identified: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity Encounters.   As with the previous books this one will be fully illustrated and contain some rare images. Some of the cases I look at even surprised me which was a pleasant surprise.

The book is basically for my reference and I will not be promoting it like previous books because it is quite clear that no one is interested.  In this case I may simply print off 30 copies and then remove it from the online store.

Not really that concerned any more.  Just up-dating people who asked.