Just to prove a point. Today is a quiet day for views but look at the numbers (it is 14:41 hrs BST).
Not one single person providing these views has read of any new sea or other creature sightings? The odds against that are fairly high.
The fact that no one buys books now -mine are thoroughly researched, referenced, illustrated and even contain photogrtaphsthought lost over 100 years ago- shows how far down interest has slumped.
In my lengthy post from 2019 "Humans Have Probably Killed Off 'Sea Monsters'", which can be found via the link below, I looked at the history of reports as well as the environmental changes taking place in our hydrosphere -specifically the seas and oceans.
While the armchair 'experts' with reputations built over expensive luncheons and shouting at students who dare ask a question that made them think, others were studying reports of unknown sea creatures. It was even noted in newspapers that reports of "sea Serpents" increased over a certain few months at certain locations. A migratory route. People went out to see if they could spot the beasties -rather like people walking shorelines today keep a look-out for whales.
Yes, we have discovered a large number of sea creatures since the 19th century and while some may match descriptions of the old 'sea monsters' we are left with reports that cannot be put down to Oar Fish (Agrostichthysparkeri or Regalecus glesne or Regalecus russelii) -those popular “explainer aways”. Nor can they be identified as giant squid (Architeuthis dux) or even giant octopuses.
There may be some rare smaller sea creatures –that is animals below the length of 20 feet (6m). These may be living in less well travelled waters or areas of waters where humans have not intruded to a heavy degree.
For the past 20 (yes, twenty) years I have contacted anyone and everyone I can to see whether they are hearing of or receiving new reports of sea creatures. I have put appeal after appeal up on social media and on this blog requesting that anyone who might know of a report forward it or a link.
The response has been...non-existent. Nothing. Not a word. Obviously faked You Tube videos are not evidence of anything other than the way that the internet has allowed hoaxers and frauds to expand their ‘game’ more.
Yes, I do check new You Tube videos because, though they may be a time waste totally dismissing clips “could” lead to missing something intertesting.
People still sail around the world. People go on cruises. There are more cameras around now than ever before so why are there no new reports?
People scared of being laughed at? Well, in this day and age they can send a video clip and details to a museum or oceanographic organisation of their choosing and ask “Have you any idea what this might be?”
A simple, non-sensationalist request.
Instead we have nothing.
The claims that museums cover-up reports is somewhat ludicrous. The idea that an oceanographic research organisation studying marine life is going to cover-up footage of a genuine unidentified creature is equally ludicrous. Such a video clip would almost guarantee them new research funds and much needed publicity.
Perhaps all those sea creature reports from the past were the last vestiges of a population of creatures now extinct. We have no way of knowing because, despite official reports of such creatures from the British Royal Navy and others, no scientist has bothered to collect the data and study it and draw conclusions.
It is very sad to think that the ‘sea monsters’ of old may no longer be with us. Like species of land animals now gone, we had our chance to study them but on;ly bemoaned the fact that we did not after they were gone.
Last night the wildlife and cats returned. Nothing unusual was picked up by either of my cameras.
There was no interest shownon the AOP Face Book group and none here, therefore I have decided that anything recorded in the future will be part of a private project.
Based on my promise of strict anonimity a person who was very active in "New Ufology" in the late 1970s/1980s in the UK offered up some information -all checkable by me.
Firstly, he name ufologists who were involved in the APEN (Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network) hoaxing (google it). There were no surprises as all but one was already known to me and in a file held by my solicitors in case it was ever needed.
Secondly, something that I suspected fort a long time. Reports by Northern UK based ufologists were often made up or twisted and added to UFO sighting reports. Also, some of those involved in UFO investigations were "unstable at best" and added a lot of imagined incidents or incidents that could be easily explained to their reports.
The sad thing about all of this is that I do not care. I found out things over 30 years or more ago and adjusted files and so on back then. I have examples of documents faked by certain ufologists and much more.
My research is based on research that means double, triple and quadruple checking of sources and not relying on something from the internet. I was not, as I explained beforwe, surprised when I was told that reports from "black" observers tended to be disregarded. Nor was I surprised that observer(s) reporting UFOs on more than one occasion were listed as "cranks".
Ufology never really had any scientific approach in the UK. The same can be said of the USA despite attempts made there.
Euporia 1973 -multiple witnesses (two groups) of a low level and one landed object on a US highway. Disregarded because the witnesses were "black".
Dipole antennas of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in western Australia: Dragonfly Media
Australian astronomers who used a powerful telescope to explore the constellations said they found no signs of alien technology in a patch of space known to include 10 million stars.
The researchers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to explore "more than 100 times broader and deeper than ever before" of the sky around the Vela constellation.
The study, published by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, explained how the scientists searched for powerful radio emissions at frequencies that could indicate the presence of an intelligent source.
CSIRO astronomer Dr Cenoa Tremblay who carried out the study in the outback of western Australia, explained that such frequencies are known as 'technosignatures'.
“The MWA is a unique telescope, with an extraordinarily wide field-of-view that allows us to observe millions of stars simultaneously,” said Dr Tremblay.
“We observed the sky around the constellation of Vela for 17 hours, looking more than 100 times broader and deeper than ever before.
“With this dataset, we found no technosignatures—no sign of intelligent life.”
Professor Steven Tingay, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), also took part in the research.
He said despite the broad nature of the search, he was not surprised by the results.
“As Douglas Adams noted in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, ‘space is big, really big’," said Dr Tingay.
“And even though this was a really big study, the amount of space we looked at was the equivalent of trying to find something in the Earth’s oceans but only searching a volume of water equivalent to a large backyard swimming pool.
“Since we can’t really assume how possible alien civilisations might utilise technology, we need to search in many different ways. Using radio telescopes, we can explore an eight-dimensional search space.
“Although there is a long way to go in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, telescopes such as the MWA will continue to push the limits—we have to keep looking.”
The scientists hope to next use the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope for their studies. The SKA is 50 times more sensitive than the MWA.
“Due to the increased sensitivity, the SKA low-frequency telescope to be built in Western Australia will be capable of detecting Earth-like radio signals from relatively nearby planetary systems,” said Professor Tingay.
“With the SKA, we’ll be able to survey billions of star systems, seeking technosignatures in an astronomical ocean of other worlds.”
The MWA is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, a remote and radio quiet astronomical facility established and maintained by CSIRO - Australia’s national science agency.
over 24 hours and views sky rocket and people filch items (I've seen them on other blogs) but absolutely NO ONE can contribute anything or point me to a link?
Fair enough. One hour and the blog is dead again. I can be contacted on face book.
