How Dare I? Questioning Stale Ufology

"How dare you??  Who the hell do you think you are?"

That was a reaction to my stating that the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction case and the "Hill Star Map" were done and dusted decades ago.  It was a genuine or psychological/fake incident. I have no reason to doubt the Hills since both were subject to scrutiny of even their most private lives by debunkers and came through it all. I have no reason to doubt that the incident in New Hampshire took place but that was 1961 and both percipients are now deceased.  As for the star map: it was interesting but really proved nothing in the end since even Betty Hill stated that she was unsure of all the details and without all the details you have...not much.

There were alleged abductions by entities from UFOs prior to the Hills. In a number of cases the percipients were invited aboard a landed object but declined and that was it.  Americans love to be first and so the Hill case is a shining example: it got lots of press and a few books -the Hills not profiting from any of these- and all because their confidentiality and privacy was breached. Ufologists today constantly churn up the Hill case because "everyone knows it" -it is a stale classic. Every time I see Ufologists on TV and they start with "In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were--" my eyes roll so far back that I can now map the back of my skull.

There really are other incidents out there and not just from the United States. France? Germany? Australia? The United Kingdom -alleged alien abduction cases and most widely un known because the case reports are not in the English language.  My chapter on German CE3Ks in Contact: Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? took a great deal of work aside from translating material and not one single German UFO group I contacted was willing to help in any capacity (how things have changed since the internet!).  As far as I am aware, the book is the best and only English language source of so many German (pre-Hopkins/Streiber) CE3K reports.

Portugal also gets a little coverage but, again, despite some promises, Portuguese Ufologists did not help out.  Is it any surprised so many non-US/UK cases are unknown?

Not surprisingly Europe seems somewhat similar the the United States when it comes to looking at what could be called "cold cases" or cases that went un-investigated (armchair ufology based on collecting newspaper clippings is NOT research nor is it investigation).

Let me make it very clear since it seems difficult to make people understand a basic fact (especially ufologists): witnesses to CE3K or abduction percipients from the 1950s and 1960s not to forget the 1970s, are getting older.  Some have already passed away. A scrappy 1 inch news report does NOT tell you the whole story. Once those involved have passed away their experience and memories are gone. That is it.  No indignant "Well why the hell did no pone carry out a proper investigation!" MUFON are not interested (no money in it) and groups in Europe seem to not be interested.

I would guess that 95-96% of claims can be dismissed for one reason or another. That remaining 4-5% are the reports we should -MUST- be looking at for evidence.

I am a sceptic which is NOT a debunker but someone who needs to see the evidence backing up reports/claims.

Remember: once a UFO percipient/witness dies their evidence dies with them.  Lost forever.

That is unacceptable.


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Buckfastleigh Update -and more

When I first appealed for information regarding the 1978 Buckfastleigh incident which I wrote in fuller detail about in UFO Contact? I never expected some of the unrelated responses I would get.
https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/buckfastleigh-devon-1977-witness-appeal.html

The story of the daylight sighting, in May, by three boys, in school at the time, in Paignton was interesting especially since they all still knew each other.  It also hinted at problems with local investigators which had created the whole mess surrounding the Buckfastleigh report.
https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/1978-paighton-school-ufo-sighting.html

What I learnt from never before reported sightings is that Devon, in 1979, saw an incident that might have been sleep paralysis but the woman involved tried to, and then succeeded in getting up to see what was casting the strange glow she had seen -but too late. Nice easy explanation except her husband witnessed the odd light. Both kept quiet but she did tell her friend.  Her friend -who put her in touch with me- was one of two groups who observed a very good CE I in Summer 1979.

Just prior to September, 1978, a man -living and working in Torquay with his fiancee- was woken by her one night and both knelt on the bed to watch an object (described) some 50 metres away from them"I for some reason woke up sitting on a chair in the room. Thinking we were late for work and had overslept we ran to the hotel only to be 2 hours early" -his wife was sleeping in the bed. He continued to tell me about having served in the police (in Scotland) for 30 years and then: "A few years ago before (his wife) passed, out of the blue she asked if I remembered that ufo in Torquay. she said, when they put you to sleep I saw a lot more than you".  I have some details but the percipient wants to take  it no further but having heard I was chasing up UFO reports from that period "just wanted to let you know".

Apart from the main Buckfastleigh event I learnt, quite by accident, of what appears to have been an abduction -object and entities seen- at the same rough date.  It also appears that another abduction might have taken place (same time frame) with the UFO  being sighted over the person in questions house by two others.  In this case it is claimed that there is spinal scarring from a seeming operation but the percipient has never had a spinal operation and I am told his doctor was mystified.

There are other reports that show a peak of UFO activity over a quite local area of Devon in 1978 and 1979. The importance of some of these cases is significant.  If the three involved in the Buckfastleigh event were abducted then that would take a total of 5, possibly 6, abductions over one very short period of time and very localised.

I have to confess that I cannot pursue these reports(and promises of confidentiality mean that I cannot forward personal details to others -I have found ufologists guarantees to take third place to publicity or personal agendas and I will not submit genuine percipients to that.

As my books don't sell and my personal finances are..."low" I cannot afford one or two field trips to interview, etc. and such work is not funded and I have tried ways including Paypal donations.  It is both frustrating and depressing to me personally that what could be significant cases cannot be fully investigated and will remain as they are.

But that is the update and if anyone out there knows the Buckfastleigh threesome PLEASE ask them to get in touch!

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The Rendlesham Forest Incident

People keep sending me Rendlesham Forest related items and today some Suffolk Press man contacted me over the RFI.

MY involvement and hearing the Halt Tape before release is mentioned in John Hanson's excellent Haunted Skies covering the period.

The American TV series UFO Hunters quite clearly describe my visit to the area (as I don't drive the other fella was my driver) but go full out into fantasy.

1. I NEVER interrogated any USAF personnel -I was a UK Civilian no matter who I worked with.
2. I CLEARLY identified myself
3. I absolutely DID NOT administer any kind of drug to a USAF person

I submitted a report to the MoD which Nick Pope as a desk clerk answering calls as a public relations man NEVER saw. He even confirmed never having seen any of the reports submitted by me in his tenure as a desk clerk.

I DO NOT make any public statements as they would have to include breaches of confidence that I never would even if some involved are now dead.

Seeing how toxic ufology and Rendlesham have become I cannot see my position changing. See Haunted Skies!

Haunted Skies vol. 8

The Beast Of Faudiere –Mystery Killer

I state "five years" as the time spent looking into this report. In fact it is well over 15 years now and if you have read my last book, Mysterious and Strange Beasts, you will have read how I eventually put the pieces together -still controversial but backed up by historical records.

Here, though, is the original write up in Some More Things Strange and Sinister:

    Believe me when I say that I have spent more than five years trying to find out more about this report [1].  I have scoured as many of the newspaper titles as I can from the United Kingdom at that time.  However, in the early days news was received in letter form from Englishmen or travellers abroad –everything from food shortages, crime and much more.  It may well be that some other newspaper also published a piece on this but it is more than likely only one did!

    This is where French researchers who know the newspaper/local record system can help. 

                    “A Letter from Nantes, dated July 19, says,
                    “Yesterday evening about eight o’clock, a wild
                    beast devoured two girls, one about twelve, and
                    the other seven years of age, the daughters of a
                    farmer in the Commune of Chevroliere.  The
                    animal immediately after took shelter in the fo-
                    rest of Faudiere.  It appeared to be larger than
                    a wolf, had a snout about a foot long, and a very
                    formidable set of teeth.”


    Of course, folk, especially those living in the country, knew what a wolf looked like.  In fact, during the severe winters of the 19th century, wolves became a huge problem with severe cold and heavy snow-falls driving them down into woods and valleys in a state of starvation.  Here, though, the animal is described as a “wild beast” and it is said to have been bigger than a wolf with an almost foot long (30 cms) long snout.

    Certainly no wolf, even under-nourished, would devour (not wholly I assume) two children even if small and young –running off with a body would be more like it and this did occur in France* but the child carried off was quite young. People knew what a wolf looked like.

    So, if not a wolf, just what was The Beast Of Faudiere?


Reference.


1.      The Caledonian Mercury, 2nd August, 1800


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