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Sunday, 8 November 2020

let them know!

 Before the blog closes....

The print on demand company are rumoured to be thinking of a book price hike as their printer wants more money. This could mean £5-10 ($5-11) on each book. I'm told this should take place in December but does not include The Red Paper.

So if you know someone who wants to get those UFO or mystery books while they are still at a low price -let them know!


Friday, 6 November 2020

Sunday -bye-bye blog

 I did write that November was the crunch point for this blog.  338, 042 views and I've made 1,237 posts and...nothing. Not a jot.

That shows there to be no real interest in the blog or ele there would not be just silence and no forwarding of reports or items.

So, Sunday -bye-bye blog and you'll need to visit the Face Book group or buy the books.

The UFO Factor

Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Anyone Can Write A Book...But Do Those Books Count?

 In this day and age, so long as you are semi-literate, it is easy enough to write a book. Cut/copy and paste and alter the odd sentence and then throw a few over used images in. 

There is a reason why I, specialising for over 40 years in reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity cases no longer buy new books on the subject. They are all the ame and add nothing new new just the ame old "Grey abduction agenda"...or Reptile abduction agenda...or Tall Whites abduction agenda...I lost count with David Jacobs last book -is another race in charge now?

Re-churning the Betty and Barney Hill case or the Kelly-Hopkinsville case or even the Flatwoods incident (which ha been re-written and rebooted so much I hardly recognise it). Two of those cases are from the 1950s and the Hills report is from 1961. Apparently the only report after that was the 1973 Pascagoula event and Travis Walton abduction.

Everything else is ignored because there wa either no big press interest or 'investigators' could not be bothered out of sheer laziness or racism.  Oh, of course, incidents outside of the United States are of no interest.

And so we get stale old report or people adding twists and lie to old cases and even ignoring specific details -important detail.

For me, if I am producing a book then writing is only part of the work. So many names of faceless people in cases and I like to see what these people look like. It shows a human being who underwent an alleged UFO event or was involved in some other report of the strange. I also like to include maps that give readers some idea of the location involved. 

A photograph taken over Alaska purporting to show the city of Bristol (the city I live in) is reported by Forteans and other "knowledgable" persons as having been "lost over 100 years ago".  I search archives and find the source -and the, uh, 'lost photograph.

A drawing of an alleged wild canid given to London Zoological Gardens was 'lost' -I found it and since then it has been used by others without stating who found it.

I have many files and they have copies of pages and images from other 'lost' sources. To me these images or documents are not lost it is just a case that "scribblers" find it easier to churn out the same old stale lines than do any actual research -it is not just in this field of interest either.

Prof. David Bellamy described The Red Paper as "explosive research".

I have a reputation for finding things and that comes from investigation and research. For instance; the Forest of Mouliere.

In Flying Saucer Review vol. 16 no. 4, July/August 1970, is an article titled Eerie Night at the Chateau Des Martins. Written by Jean-Claude Baillon of Cercle d'Information des Phenomenes Insolites (CIESPI) it concerned a night-time incidents that, as far a I am aware, was never adequately concluded (see Mysterious `and Strange Beasts).  Quite by accident Baillon came across a newspaper item on an old legend "The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere". The story is quoted but for me this was a mystery attached to another mystery.



As far as I could find out this FSR article was the only instance of the Mouliere story being printed in English.  I was told that the "legend" was of no interest to UFO groups or others interested in mysteries -it was a local legend.


Well, it interested me. It took a week or so but I managed to get copies of the pages citing this mystery from the actual original source. I even managed to get a map that was useful and even a photograph of La Comtessa Dash taken later in her life.

And all of this then gets tidied up and presented in the book. But even then I still check regularly to see whether anything new can be found but to date -nothing.

The Beast of Faudiere and its exploits were mentioned in a letter in 1800, Tweny years on I still dig around.

And the most important thing is that each of my books is fully referenced so anyone can continue the research if they want to. No quote from this book or that book and no reference to the original source: it is all there.

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Foxes and the 2000 Attempted Survey

 


In 2000 I sent out a letter to fox watch groups as well as the various British Naturalist Asociation (BNA) to try to get cooperation on the Fox and Hybrid Study Project.

I followed up with a second letter.
Emails.
With the BNA member groups I got in contact by phone -apparently they did not do that type of field work...in fact, as I noted to the Secretary of the BNA, they were only interested in talking about butterflie and pretty birdies.

On 27th July, 2001 I noted on the folder: "No response from any fox study groups" and that was it.

A pity since I had been getting reports of various foxes, including Acrtic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) from people around the country -I often ended talking on the phone with people about foxes more than 'big cats' on some days!

The following is the initial letter and questionaire I sent out in 2000 and it is not that stressful to complete but I suspect a few of the groups were more social gatherings than anything else.

Would have been nice to see what data we could have come up with.



Wednesday, 28 October 2020

"Retirement" -pfah!

 


"Noted British naturalist and scientific investigator Terry Hooper has announced his retirement...."

I was sent a link to a wildlife blog that carried this item...then two other non wildlife blogs. All very nice biographies and noting that I wa a sceptical investigator in "a number of fields" but not a debunker. 

I have been in contact with the three blogs and the posts have been removed.  I believe this all started when I posted about Covid19 putting a stop to field investigations. I have not retired...I've looked and my dictionary does not seem to have that word in it.

I may not be able to travel and investigate things but there is still the internet and as I pointed out in a post yesterday I am still doing field work but closer to home...actually in my garden.

https://exoticanimalsregister.blogspot.com/2020/10/trail-cams-foxes-hedgehogs-and-killer.html

I still write and am currently looking into the little known CAV case from Peru to re-assess it. My invitation to serious researchers to cooperate on the CE3K/AE study is still open and so to is my fox and felid study. By December I hope that my paper on what some UK police wildlife officers called "Hooper Cats" should be ready.

Things on this blog and others will be quiet since I cannot afford time to work on posts that get no reactions anymore.

I do have eight (8) books available so if you want to support the continuing book pleas consider buying one!

"Retirement" -pfah!

Go to the Face Book page or miss anything new

 The books do not sell and it seems that non-sensationalist posts on blogs are unpopular. There are 4-7 views per post on the AOP blog and considering posts can take 2-3 hours I am saving myself time by not doing anything new.

Heads up.

Go to the Face Book page or miss anything new.