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Friday, 9 September 2022

To Make Something VERY Clear

 I am a sceptic and go by the evidence.

I am NOT a debunker who dismisses things without looking at any evidence.

I have made it very clear that I believe any alleged encounter such as a Close Encounter of the Third Kind must be investigated with an open mind taking many things into account. Since 1974 this has, sadly, been my main work so I have seen the flaws in investigation as well as in cases that point to a solution being non alien.

It is very important that these reports are investigated and if out of 100 cases 99 can be dismissed then that still leaves the 1 report. It would be good to have people involved in exobiology/xenobiology involved in looking at the entity descriptions in reports but that does not seem like something that will happen soon.

I point out proven flaws in evidence and procedure and that is it. I go into each account open minded and with absolutely no pre conceived conclusions for or against. 

Review -UFOs The Ultimate Abduction: We Are Property -Raymond E. Fowler

 


  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mindstir Media (22 Sept. 2020
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 410 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1735478571
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1735478579
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.39 x 22.86 cm

This book addresses and answers a rampant question within UFOlogy, whether UFOS are physical or psychic in nature. In my early days as a UFO investigator I would throw UFO reports that contained paranormal phenomena in the proverbial wastebasket. My position, etched in the halls of Congress, was that UFOS were machine-like physical craft from another star system. However, as time went by, I watched in dismay as several respected UFO researchers moved from a physical to a psychic interpretation of the UFO phenomenon. Little did I know then that my own view would also slowly but surely be honed to accommodate ever deeper levels of the psychic components triggered by the UFO experience.

Stringed to together by amazing synchronicities, I became obsessed, one after the other with UFO Abductions, Out-of-the-body experiences, Near Death Experiences, After Death Communications, Quantum Physics, and the Time Slip Phenomenon. Studies of these phenomena led me to the startling conclusion that they, and UFOS, are interconnected and all part of one encompassing metaphenomenon. I concluded that UFOS originate from the dimension NDErs describe and that we are transitory citizens of that world of Light who shuffle back and forth between a particle dimension and a wave (light) dimension through reincarnation.

The UFO abductions reflect UFO entities monitoring and caring for the human particle form in preparation for their metamorphosizing by OBES into a new body of light in the afterlife dimension. The robed human-appearing entities that greed NDErs at the world of light appear to be controlling this process and to be genetically related to humans. PLES on the other hand reflect physical humans returning and repeating this process by reincarnation as part of a natural constant inter-balanced exchange between matter and energy - between particle and wave. Inconceivable as this might be to the reader, the final analysis reached by the author is that UFOS represent a final abduction for one’s current life and that we are property!


Fowler notes how he, like others in Ufology would dismiss anyone reporting a UFO twice or multiple times as crap pots. Also dismissed were reports of people encountering entities. This is true even outside the United States. I have previously written about how, in the 1970s right up to the 1990s I would be mocked and called (never to my face) the "UFO Nut" ("UFO Naut" -they thought it was funny!). We lost a tremendous amount of data and cases because of this attitude. The Ufologists were "nuts and bolts" men who chased reports of UFOs but did not even think what or who might be piloting them -an incredible lack of logical thinking and if a reported UFO did not "fit" in with the rest then....put it in the bin.


When confronted by accounts of alien entity encounters -CE3Ks- Ufologists tended to be totally unprepared. Their mindset was not to ponder the "Who's in the UFO" but here they were being confronted by reports such as the Hills, Walton and Andreasson. Abductions. Just as there is a fear amongst many astronomers and even those working in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence of aliens being proven to exist so there was a fear amongst Ufologists of entity cases being real -some even jumped into bed with debunkers (not literally!) and added extras that they made up or had heard to ridicule the accounts. Even in 2022 there are 25 and 35 year "UFO veterans" who ask "What are these reports of the little guys about?" (they need to read my books)/


Fowler came from that nuts and bolts group and admits it freely.  Reading this nook was almost painful.  I feel that the Andreasson Affair was a classic in Ufology. We have the classic case history of how a person becomes an 'abductee' -Karla Turner's books are really must reading for this as it shows how everything from the "trigger" to believing even the minutest incident may involve alien intervention. I believe that Turner was genuine in her claims but the evidence is that she had Ruth Syndrome (again, read my first CE3K book (UFO Contact?) for a full explanation and case samples).


With the Andreasson Affair we have another perfect case study and all that it entails from coincidences, dreams and altered states all intermixed with religious belief. In this case Fowler has documented what should be considered a classic and must reading.


The book itself (UFOs The Ultimate Abduction: We Are Property) is far more than a book about UFO abductions. It tells us about how Fowler had a UFO sighting as a child and how he eventually got into Ufology, the attitudes that prevailed, how the CIA destroyed NICAP from within (a classic case of counter intelligence infiltration and taking over an organisation/subject), the Condon Committee, USAF Project Blue Book as well as some very interesting UFO cases. On that side of things this is, again, must reading for people interested in UFO history and wanting to find out about Fowler's involvement in these matters.


The section where he turns to abductions is where people may have their minds blown.  There are cases where there is sleep paralysis as well as altered states involved and all the classic symptoms are there and yet these seem to be dismissed "because of the UFO involvement" and with that response eyes should start rolling. 


Why are 'abductees' finding synchronicity in the times that they wake up? Yes, again, this is a subject mentioned and it is almost as though people tend to not research or read up on things. Your body's internal clock (yes, we all have one) is controlled by an area of the brain called the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus). The SCN is located in the hypothalamus. The SCN is sensitive to signals of dark and light. The optic nerve in your eyes senses the morning light. The Circadian rhythms form a basic “schedule” for our bodies that cause us to wake up at roughly the same time each day- provided that you live a relatively routine life and many things can throw this off including stress.


No aliens involved.


The striking case for me was that of the Lebels and what appeared to be a long term study of them and their property.  It made me think, to a degree, of the Coombs farm in Wales during the 1970s. Reading this was like reading an old style CE3K account and, as Fowler suggests, there may have been far more involved but once the family moved on that ended the matter. In Ufology this is a big problem; once the initial account is compiled the case is closed. There are practical problems; you want to keep a property under surveillance in some way even if just asking the new owners to report anything unusual how do you approach those new owners? "Hi. You do not know me and I can guarantee you I am not insane but I am a UFO investigator and the previous owners used to see aliens in and around the home and property---" at that point the door probably slams in your face and you go sit in your car and wait for the police responders to ask you questions.


Now I did write that this should be a classic for another reason and that is because we see how Fowler went from nuts and bolts to becoming a 'UFO abductee' himself.  Everything is circumstantial and even people he was with cannot confirm what he claims to have seen -this for many tends to add that touch of "alien interference" and tends never to be questioned. That Fowler resigned from MUFON after believing he was an abductee was the correct thing to do and the reason is simple; he was head of MUFON Director of Investigations and could be "led" by any aliens to dismiss reports and totally taint research (this MUFON eventually did themselves without the aid of aliens). So, however improbable that seems it was the right move.


Leo Sprinkle dealt with many abductees via hypnosis but then believed it possible that telepathy between the subject-hypnotist-UFO investigator might taint what the subject was telling them. For that reason he stopped but something else also caused him to retire from that line of work (what he thought could taint subjects accounts if telepathy were at work) -he believed that he, too, was an abductee.  Sprinkle felt that there were signs of his being an abductee but these seem, as in Fowler's case, to be circumstantial at best. 


I'm prone to sleep paralysis, I sleep irregularly and wake at specific times when I do sleep -am I a UFO abductee? No. I have seen up to five light phenomenon in my adult life -I can account for every second: no missing time.  My parents observed a UFO in Germany just before I was born -am I an abductee and were they? No. It goes on and on and it is the trick the mind plays because it takes common events and things and then plays a game of dot-to-dot so that the picture you make is not of a bunny rabbit sitting in profile but of a 'Zeta Reticulan" beckoning you with a long finger.


A few incidents Fowler mentions from his later years had me cringing and concerned but none had anything to do with UFOs.  We also see how Fowler has led himself to intermix UFOs, abductions and "synchronicities" with Near Death Experiences and Out of Body Experiences and the conclusions are completely illogical. Out of Body abductions and then the hypnotic regressing adults (who have accumulated decades of TGVF and media accounts of UFOs) to something they believe they remember from when they were a 2 year old...a three year old and even before. That is a mockery on so many levels and showing total misuse of hypnosis.


Is it any wonder that Fowler then takes the stance of the discredit Jacobs and claims "We are property" and that aliens control our minds and spirits to the point of not just physical abductions but out of body abductions?  Fowler notes Andreasson's Christian belief but also his own "fundamental Christian" belief that caused him to argue with his father when he recounted odd events and called them of "Satanic origin".  I have seen this so many times since 1974; rational people who cannot explain aspects of UFO reports as nuts and bolts jumping to the conclusion that "UFOs are paranormal" and some go as far as to call on the fictitious Satan as the source of it all. 


This was a fascinating read but probably not for the reasons I had thought when I purchased the book. The same facets of UFOs that make some -some- astronomers and scientists ridicule the subject can also make some Ufologists 'abductees'.

Utah UFO Display (and Skinwalker Ranch) -review)

 



  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cedar Fort, Inc.; Illustrated edition (July 8, 2010)
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1599554054
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1599554051

 Do UFOs really exist? Shedding new light on the UFO mystery, noted biologist Frank B. Salisbury, in collaboration with Joseph Junior Hicks, brings to life dramatic eyewitness accounts that address this timeworn puzzle. 

Written in the context of modern science, Utah UFO Display includes countless interviews of people who adamantly insist they witnessed a flying saucer or were abducted by extraterrestrial beings. 

Prepare to be hooked from the first page!

Well, I have to admit that for the most part this was a good read but Salisbury admits himself that he had retired and been out of the UFO field some time -hence his being dropped as consultant by Bigelow and the Skinwalker ranch group. In fact, Hicks, whose work the Skinwalker team used a lot as background and credited got the big heave-o and that rings weird.  It's akin to a businessman stating he is in heavy financial trouble and he knows a friendly accountant but screw him -"I'll go it alone!"  Most of the leg work and investigation work was carried out by Joseph Junior Hicks.

The problem I find is that in the years since this book first appeared Ufology has moved on (slightly) but in the table of cases we see "saw a silvery figure in house" and that's it. Even a UFO sighting recounted early in the book does not mention the fact that a entity was reported...well, it is a kind of side note at the end of the section.  Everything else is pretty much "UFO standard" and it does not appear to have entered Salisbury's mind that the phenomena reported in many cases may be a natural phenomenon. This is where old Ufologists tend to make the mistakes as they conclude that every "unexplainable" is intelligently controlled or nuts and bolts.

Where we get to something new and very relevant to UFOs in 2022 is the chapter on Skinwalker Ranch itself. The family that owned it from the 1930s (not 1950s as the current myth goes) had never encountered strange phenomena of any kind and certainly not UFOs and the brother of the late owner (Garth Meyers spoke to Salisbury) had even worked on the ranch as a young man and encountered nothing unusual. Everything changed after the family of the deceased couple who owned the ranch sold it (they were all quite old so running a ranch was beyond them). Salisbury seems to suggest that the new owners accounts may have some truth in them but to my reading it read as if there was a huge pile of bovine excrement and now some denial from that source ('Tom Gorman').

Where things get bad is  when George Knapp and Colm Kelleher got involved. Allegedly, Knapp had never spoken to 'Tom Gorman' but heavily embellished accounts and 'Gorman' did not even know about the book until after its publication. As I wrote at the time after reading Knapp and Kelleher's book; I do not believe a word of it. No photographs, absolutely no evidence what-so- ever (as Knapp has been recorded as stating when pushed on the subject.

It comes down to this; someone was taking the money and making the most out of false accounts and reports -even from the "crew" who were supposed to be investigating the ranch. That Bigelow actually called Meyer a liar when he stated that there was NEVER any strange phenomena at the ranch from 1930-1990s and its sale but later sold the ranch on to another "entrepreneur" says a lot. I think Bigelow caught on to the con at some point. The "must not dig in certain areas before consulting the seller" is nothing spooky but is something put into land contracts in the area due to oil deposits!

This is an interesting read for those who do read these days and do not rely on the lies found on the internet and You Tube. This book does note that some observed odd lights near the ranch but this sounds like natural phenomenon.

Conclusions about UFOs all fall into the same "I'm a nuts and bolts man and this does not seem to fit" category. The same "false gods of Ufology" are quoted (seemingly people are unaware of how their data is inaccurate or corrupted) and the same old theories pop up including how religion can help (Salisbury is a Mormon).  

An interesting read as I note and the greate4st contribution to modern Ufology (again) is to the Skinwalker Ranch farce.

Wednesday, 7 September 2022

British Ufology Kept Pushing and...Someone pushed back

 Thinking about why the "false beards and we don't need no warrant card" brigade got involved in messing up Ufology in the UK.

If you were not there in the 1970s and 1980s this may be news for you.
At a Trowbridge UFO Conference in the 1970s we had Rex Dutta ("Fish tanks Ltd) showing official leaked UFO documents -dates, names, sources -and all completely faked. VERY amateurish also. Got a bit of publicity out of it and, of course, Ufologists pestered HMG over them as well as MPs.
There were claims that letters between Ufologists were being opened. Intercepted by "the security services". Even in the 1970s if an agency wanted to read what was in a letter it did not have to open letters. If it did you would not even know that they had. Re-sealing with sellotape would be the most clumsy and unprofessional thing ever. I was asked by several Ufologists why their letters were intercepted (rumour at that time spread by Ufologists was that I had "connections").

I talked to each one of them and then I did what no one else had bothered doing. I looked at who had sent the letters in question (some allegedly having material missing -removed- from them). Two names cropped up and they were at the conference. I took them to one side and told them that I hoped whoever was behind this would stop as I would otherwise have to raise the matter with "Royal Mail Security" who could track and take finger prints from the envelopes I was given and the tape would reveal a lot more. I said I'd wait a week and see i8f it continued. It didn't.

Then we had Merseyside UFO Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena (MIGAP) who created a great deal of a fuss and made claims of cover ups and even walked into a police station accusing the police and others of taking part in a cover up. UFO? No, a low flying RAF jet at night. MPs started asking questions and the press became a nuisance and listening to the tape of the police conversation I was surprised at how calm the officers had remained. Big stink that resulted in...nothing.

Some people in UFO groups then started going from silly to a point that I could not believe. They snuck around military airfields and bases sneaking photographs not just of aircraft but military personnel and civilian workers. This at the height of the Cold War and IRA high alert notifications. They photocopied photos and passed them around and there were a number cautioned by the police.

More faked 'official' documents.

More pestering Members of Parliament, the MoD and other bodies.

Then we had Eric Morris who continued faking information and documents up to a year before his death. He threatened witnesses (mainly women of advanced age such as Joan Amos) and told anyone within ear-shot or letter writing about his Royal Navy Intelligence work and how he was paid to "get at" certain Ufologists.

It was an out of control situation and one that, in the United States, would have been dealt with quickly. If you push, push and keep pushing and cause problems then eventually someone is going to ask "These people are telling all of these lies -why isn't someone doing something about this?" Military airfields and bases with nuclear weapons; someone decided enough was enough.

Certain Ufologists, prominent ones, were "helpful". Faking UFO reports and when being caught out not declaring which reports were faked and WHY. This began from the 1980s on and still goes on to an extent. It's why reports from the UK any time after 1979 are considered by me as not worth noting unless the witnesses can be contacted and spoken to. Flying Saucer Review gave a lot of these Ufologists a platform to work on -FSR itself was tainted by fakery and eventually fringe/crank theorising but had a world wide readership.

There are so many questions about the sudden finding of the Calvine UFO photo and the stories (there are three) behind it. And why at this very moment with all that is going on with the counter intelligence led "UAP" dialogue? The ex RAF man kept a photo in the hope someone might be interested one day. Bovine excrement. Far too convenient and enough variations on the story behind the photo.

Has anyone contacted any of the U. S. journalists specialising in Area 51 or secret aircraft development to see what they think? If not then we take a dodgy story and photo and jump up and down shouting "It's real! It's real!" but "real" what? Alien spacecraft or Earth technology?

I believe the Ministry of Defence has clean hands on this matter. If the top people in Defence were not seeing these photos then who saw them (question their account) and also ask why one ex journalist noted that the truth about the Calvine incident "lay with the Daily record" -which, unlike any other newspaper at the time, did not make copies for themselves or PUBLISH the photos.

Maybe I am getting paranoid after four decades because it is messing up my sense of smell and I am sure there is a dead rat somewhere.

But Ufology and media is praising the find of "the best (no) UFO photo ever".

Ignore me. I don't believe Luis Elizondo either and look where that got me on social media!

75 Years on -where are we with UFOs?

 


Getting away from the UFO crackpots and frauds we can say that some UFO reports are natural phenomena while others are misidentifications and they (excluding all "bright light" UFOs) are identified and thrown aside and that leads us with what appear to be solid, constructed craft which WE do not have. 

If Russia, China or the US had these in the 1950s the world would be totally different now.

 We can dismiss the "Greys" (Hopkins, Jacobs and, after looking at things again, to an extent even Mack) because prior to Hopkins we had short, large headed entities but NO GREYS (though Ufologists have started changing those reports). What Hopkins, but especially Jacobs, has written is pure nonsense and both are discredited. 

We know certain stimuli can create a seemingly 100% physically real encounter for some people. Unless there is secondary, independent witness testimony then single witness events are excluded (but studied). That leaves us with incidents involving two or more percipients and if those have corroborating independent witnesses then you have a pretty solid case.

 Abductions are very rare (I could write books on that...oh, I have...four!) and if those inside these seemingly constructed craft do not look wholly human and state that they are from another planet then they must be. 



The encounters and physiological/psychological effects are genuine

The radiation contamination are real

Signs that something large landed are real

Now in a criminal case that is almost 100% circumstantial/ anecdotal evidence. Does it give us 100% irrefutable evidence of aliens visiting? 

No



An abductee really needs to steal something or be involved in something Jacobs, Mack and Hopkins agreed to take part in -the Damocles Project -which might give results. 

For every Adamski fraud or Cynthia Appleton there are cases presenting more evidence. Unfortunately my getting the chance to be involved in an encounter seem to be getting shorter but all we can do is gather the data.



Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Calvine UFO and The Bude Flying Triangle

 Am I missing something?

According to Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/best-ufo-picture-calvine-photo-found-30-years-missing-1733673
"On August 4, 1990, two hikers near Calvine in Scotland took a photograph of a mysterious, diamond-shaped flying object hovering in the middle of the sky.
For 32 years that image, dubbed the "Calvine photo," disappeared from the public eye, becoming the object of speculation, theories and myths. But now, the groundbreaking image has finally resurfaced thanks to the efforts of British journalist David Clarke.
After 13 years of research, Clarke—who has worked as a curator for Britain's National Archives and is currently an associate professor at Sheffield Hallam University—found that former Royal Air Force (RAF) press officer Craig Lindsay had held on to a copy of the last remaining original print, waiting for someone to enquire about the mysterious image.
In the photo—one of a series of six the hikers reportedly took—a diamond-shaped object can be seen flying in the sky, while a fighter jet can be spotted in the background not too far from it."


The first thing I noticed all those years ago was that there is something "off" about the positioning and quality of the UFO and there was something wrong about the aircraft. In point of fact the main criticism was that there was absolutely nothing in the photo to use as scale or -pointed out very quickly- nothing to show WHERE the photo was taken.
There are things you can look for but if you are dealing with a copy from a copy (with the old film cameras) it gets harder. Ground Saucer Watch in the United States "pioneered" UFO photo computer analysis and even ones identified as "genuine" many years later were revealed as hoaxes; you really need the original negatives now THOSE found would have been a breakthrough.
This is certainly NOT "one of the best" UFO photographs in existence.
I have to keep asking myself why an "arch sceptic" such as David Clarke go so excited and started promoting this photo?

We KNOW that Ufologists have been faking UFO stories since the 1980s almost like a cottage industry. It is why certain reports are never given a high credibility rating. The biggest hoaxing Ufologists are based -or were- in the North of England and I wonder whether anyone recalls this photo from 1995?

A copy was sent to me anonymously all that identified its source was a Yorkshire postmark and a note (typed) that read "Taken in Scotland I want to be anonymous for saffety" ((sic). Then Encounters magazine published the photo -after I received a call from them about this "genuine flying triangle being refuelled" and had I seen it? No one at the magazine seemed to want to answer any questions about who the photo was from. In fact, they were downright refusing to answer questions -after they had phoned me!

I then got a phone call from a reporter at the Mirror newspaper who asked me about flying triangle being refuelled. I stated that I had seen it along with some photo specialists and we believed it to be a fake. The reporter then said "Yeah, our photog reckons its dodgy" -my guess is that they wanted someone to say it was genuine!

I then followed procedure and checked with various people and organisations including the Ministry of Defence. It took less than 24 hours to find out what was going on.

The story was that Encounters had received the photo just before going to press. They asked no questions and never checked but "grabbed" the photo. They then -the magazine which would have no right to do so- immediately contacted the Daily Mail newspaper to sell the photograph to them. The rather annoyed editor told me they had "checked the photo" (no details) and that it was "a bloody fake". It was a "fake" in the sense that it was a mock-up produced to show how stealth aircraft being refuelled might look. In fact, Encounters had "paid hardly anything" for the mock-up image and then went about trying to sell it themselves for a great deal.

Things got even less likely when the hoax was exposed. Encounters stated that they knew who the hoaxer was but would not name him and would take the matter no further since he had "learning difficulties" -yet conned them into buying the image ("a very good quality photo" I was told)? And so the "Bude photo" as it was known died a death after a quick apology and before anyone dug into the story and found out that they had been trying to sell the photo as their own for money.

The only reason this was discovered to be a fake is that it was published in a magazine read by an aviation reporter who spotted it. So, if 'lost' and turning up in 2022 would it be genuine because the copy looked good?

Look at these photos sent to me by someone I know -NOT involved with UFOs- and who was shocked by what he captured on a hot sunny day on a hill overlooking Bristol. I guarantee these are not faked.
We can see that these objects are at a distance from the observer (not seen at the time) and would be 300 feet or so above the city.
Below we can see the two discs one above the other


The "saucer shape with dome -two objects moving together over the central Bristol area. and I have darkened this a little to try to make the shapes seem clearer. The photo gives us a lot of the information we need and which is lacking in the Bude and Calvine photos.

So why has this copy of the photo suddenly turned up after 32 years of, I am led to believe, Nick Pope and many other Ufologists trying to find it? It has been mentioned on TV, online, in magazines and the word was out in RAFT circles as well as the MoD in general Lord (Peter) Hill-Norton told myself and others associated with our work that he had never heard or seen the Calvine photo. Would he be expected to have seen it? Yes. In case you have no idea who he was:

Hill-Norton was swiftly propelled into the post of First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in July 1970 and then, having been promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 12 March 1971,into the post of Chief of the Defence Staff in April 1971following the unexpected early retirement of Sir Michael Le Fanu due to ill health. In the latter role he gave the final commitment to Project Chevaline, the Polaris missile improvement programme. He became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in 1974, remaining in that post until his retirement in 1977. He also maintained his various links within defence after retirement and was responsible for the setting up of UFO Concern which aimed at getting some form of UFO disclosure from the UK government (my own disclosure is that I was recruited to UFO Concern after it was setup).

Again; why now and WHY such a hullaballoo over a copy of a suspect photo?


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