Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Monday, 7 August 2017
7,200 to 86,400 Alien Abductions Per Year In The UK?
Now each of the five groups that I contacted in 2016 stated that they get "a hundred or couple hundred" new alien abduction cases each month.
When I asked two why their reports online seemed to all be written by the same person both stated that, to "prevent an abductee being identified", the person in charge re~wrote the accounts. Now, let me point out that this simply has an accusation of fakery thrown at these groups. One had a re~written account to, obviously, not identify the alleged abductee...who appeared in a photo with the investigator in question. Really wanted anonymity then.
These accounts are useless. They provide no real data. Why? If you look at any subject as an investigator then you have to read the actual words of the person involved. This is why police officers say "In your own words" or a judge in court will say to a person "It would help considerably if you told us in your own words". Re~writing a statement does not protect a witness/percipient ~a code of ethics should do that~ it merely gives the impression that everything is made up by one person: the person running the group and re~writing everything.
The situation is made worse by the fact that every witness sketch varies despite stating "It was like the face on the cover of that Streiber book!" Yet, the sketch is nothing like the 'Grey' on the cover of Communion. I have mention this all before so let's not go over it again.
I think that a great many reports are fabricated by certain 'investigators', because it brings them kudos as far as they see it. With the person actually making a report you can have various reasons: hoaxing, attention seeking, psychological, etc. etc. etc.
I am not a "debunker" ~which many Ufologists use because you offer a rational explanation along with facts to reinforce that explanation. Not a case of "I say the case involves "this" so it's a fact!" No, the investigator should look at the hypothesis offered and if it proves correct then move on. If it does not prove correct then other avenues need to be looked at. The more explanations you look at and can dismiss the better the case becomes.
There is a famous case from the United States in the early 1970s. I won't go into it in any detail but there was far more than a creatures encounter. Reading the investigator's account of the case I realised that some of the percipient behaviour at the time and afterwards strongly indicated a psychological condition. I pointed this out, very politely but have not heard from the investigator since sadly.
Every American trend from UFOs, ghosts, demons, Bigfoot and much more that get wide TV coverage or feature on You Tube tends to hit the UK. I have big files on Alien Entity/CE 3K going back to 1900 (and a few before that). I notice how the entities involved in some of these are now depicted or described as "Greys" but never were before. This seems to be down to the Ufologist and the idea that anything originally reported was a "screen image".
The "Greys", as veteran research Ann Druffell has pointed out, until the 1980s and the start of "abduction research" and wide use of hypnosis, there were no Greys as described. That is not to say that there were no similar looking, large headed entities but it is just that the Greys appear to be a modern myth.
David M. Jacobs states that if you have seen a UFO, even in the distance as it shoots through the sky, you have been abducted. I'm guessing that if you have seen a landed craft and entities that also means you have been abducted?
Utter rot.
The first thing I always did, from when I started out in 1973, right up to now, is talk to witnesses. Find out how long the sighting they had lasted: "Well, the news was ending at 10:30pm...and the object had gone by the time the weather report ended..." so about five minutes. How did they know the time in other cases? Dashboard clock in a car that was used to time how long an object took to pass over the road ahead and move away over woodland. To state that every UFO sighting is evidence of alien abduction and no one can dispute it because only you know the truth borders on a psychological condition in itself.
But back to these UFO groups and their claims for the UK.
The 2016 UK population was 65.4 millions. So let's say 100 new to each group every month ~just three groups, no more.. That's 1,200 for one group in a year and for three groups 3,600 in a year. If you accept the upper number of 200 a month that is 7,200 in a year. And for 10 years 72,000 so if the six groups I was in contact with were telling the truth then we are dealing with some 7,200 per month and some 86,400 each year...or 864,000 over ten years and those are the percipients actually making reports and so a small percentage of all UK abductees. I do not believe that figure.
"I was abducted by aliens. It was those grey ones with the lizard~men and mantis~like creatures!" Write that down, put it online and there you go. That is evidence of stupidity on the part of the Ufologist.
Now, I have a rather love~hate thing with Carl Sagan, however, there is a quote of his that is very apt:
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
I am not a "UFO believer" because that is nonsense. Someone might say "going by what I've heard I believe UFOs are real" but the title "believer" has some negative connotations to it. I am not a debunker. I look at what is reported and search for evidence to disprove or prove that evidence to be genuine. I get invitations from "skeptics" groups who feel I am on the same level of thinking as them. I turn invitations down.
Skeptics who are skeptics because it makes them seem big or more knowing than someone else I cannot abide. Sat on fat arses pontificating or making claims that only those who have no idea of the subject in question will think is fact are a waste of space. "Sea monsters do not exist because~~~" Well, no "monsters" but sea creatures so far undiscovered by science (which one has to face really screwed up badly on this one)....and Mr Comfie chair has not scoured the waters of the world ~we still have no idea what might be below the waves but Mr Comfie Chair does? All the silly explanations come out.
"Bigfoot does not exist because any such creature could not remain hidden!" I knew a zoologist who said that for years until he visited Canada and said he never realized just how vast its forests were. "Anything really big could live there ~but not Bigfoot. That doesn't exist!" He later stated.
And I do not, and never ever would, state that I do not believe that alien life forms have visited the Earth over the last 200 years, or before. I have spent decades looking at the evidence for this. I have met people who have stood up to every ounce of scrutiny, trick questions and so on that I have used. I have no doubt they are not lying. They have never suffered mental illness, head injuries or anything else (and there are things I have looked at that most Ufologists do not even know of) that would make them believe they saw aliens.
What do I make of those cases? Worth noting but one off encounters where there is no evidence or where physical evidence existed but was trampled over by Ufologists? You have to think and that is all you can do. Then look for correlations. And you keep on looking until you find the correlations or the actual evidence to prove a case.
I am not a cryptozoologist, a Fortean, a Ufologist, demonologist, ghostologist (!) or follower of any other made up subject. Which includes "Skeptics." I am a naturalist and scientific investigator. I have theories.
I want facts and evidence and the UK appears to have fallen into a prolonged period of Idiotologists (there is a good title) who just believe anything. Some probably get their training watching Dr Who.
A genuine incident or event I am always interested in hearing about and no witness/percipient should ever feel that I doubt them. It may seem so but if you just need a "Yes. We know all about this. Happens thousands of times a year!" then there are groups for you. If you want someone to seriously look at what happened to you without judging...I am contactable.
Sea Wolvea
Along the wild Pacific coast of British Columbia, there lives a population of the sea wolves
Sunday, 6 August 2017
Saturday, 5 August 2017
Continuing In A Not Quite An Englishman's Country Garden!
Ahh, the things you find in the Summer in your garden. Some can be quite mysterious. Some can make you scream out "What's that?!" If you are in the UK the answer is not Bigfoot!
The thing is that most people only pay attention to their flower bed or the height of their grass and most have no idea about insects or wildlife...or things insects leave around. Such as this....
Not great photos (I need a new camera!) but this brownish ball is a gall of Andricus kollari Andricus kollari. More information can be found here:https://alchetron.com/Andricus-kollari-1700793-W
DO NOT panic as they are harmless to your trees and there is no treatment anyway.
Below: Wondering what that other stuff was ~everything in one shot!
Andricus, Neuroterus, Biorhiza and Cynips species More information as well as photos can be found here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=803
My ornamental cherry tree has had clear sap coming from it for years. Now, if you do a web search "sap coming from ornamental cherry tree" you get this:
Common name Bacterial cankerScientific name Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum and P. s. pv. syringaePlants affected Prunus speciesMain symptoms Sunken, dead patches of bark and small holes in leavesCaused by BacteriaTiming Cankers form in mid-spring, shotholes on foliage from early summer
Now, my tree does not have "shot~hole" so I need to up its feed and I just used the last of the chicken pellet fertilizer on it. Leaf cutter insects I find plenty of evidence of! But there is one thing I encourage and that is any type of garden spider building its web between branches.
Plenty of snails, as well as empty shells from where blackbirds have eaten the snail. Slugs. Quite a few and of a lot of different types (they tend to have a meal on the food put out for foxes and the hedgehogs!). They also make a great addition to The Green Man (photo top of page).
I've watched a couple of very large hedgehogs, who do not give a damn how much noise they make by the front door (food station in poor weather) nor how many times I have to get up to make sure it isn't burglars!
As both fox and hedgehogs alter their visiting times I was worried that I might just be feeding cats ~a good few pass through here~ and I wanted to make sure. The old trick is to use a "sand trap" an inch thick (2.5cms) layer of sand around a food dish (in this case) and see what tracks you get. I had no sand so resorted to an old ghost hunters trick ~a layer of talcum powder.
The tracks next day showed a large gull, magpie and cat tracks but also hedgehog and fox. The hedgie tracks don't show up well but the fox ones are reasonable.
Below: WHERE to begin! Cat and fox but if you look at the upper right side of the manhole cover you have magpie tracks. You can also clearly see the webbed gull tracks!
I've also seen the small vixen close to and there was no sign of mange.
There are other indicators of hedgehogs, of course. Poop. Yes, I know that it should not but it makes me smile seeing it. It shows if the hedgehog in question is healthy or not. So when I walked out my front door in June and almost stepped on this I had to go fetch the camera!
I knew one neighbour who used to talk about his arguments with the neighbour who "chucked bits of black tar" onto his lawn. Never ever saw him do this and pointed to some of this "tar"...hedgehog poop.
From the photos you will see there are plenty of acorns this year. So squirrel should be okay though I spied one of the gardens further along has a squirrel feeder in it (YAY! People beginning to get more wildlife friendly around here at last). It also means the Jay will be back so I need to sort a feeder out for it.
Lola the cat from somewhere (aka: killer bitch queen for the number of mice, at least one juvenile rat and shrews she has killed) helped out by climbing trees I was trying to inspect and cut back. And she also helped by attempting to tackle my boots.
Below: Lola on patrol.
Black ants. oh the black ants. They do say the red ones bite. Right. The black ones really bite in, especially if I put my arm against the oak tree while filling the bird feeder...in fact, the main type of ant I've seen in the garden (front and back) are black ants. I used to watch them as they herded aphids in the already mentioned cherry tree.
Below: Kingdom of the Ants!!
All the cut branches from a while back are now stored and will probably be used as supports for other plants, etc..
Below: wood pigeons. At one point these birds and collared doves were almost wiped out in the UK but since the 1970s have come back in numbers.
The collared doves, wood pigeons, magpies, rooks, jackdaws, crows and of course, pigeons, are still flipping around and so are the smaller birds.
So much of the local habitat has been cut back or destroyed and as new people move in and out gardens are turned over, concreted, paving slabbed and shrubs and bushes done away with. It is nice to see people plant more things these days and not realize ~or realize~ it encourages wildlife. If you dont have the habitat you don't get Eye Hawk Moths breeding. These two were, uh, "snuggling up" last month on my back wall.
Not great but this photo shows why how they got the name.
There has also been one or two very large moths shoot out from the shade of the barrel planted potatoes. Too fast for me to see what they were. Next year I plan a survey.
Below: potatoes in a bin!
Yes, with foxes, cats, hedgehogs and no real soil here, we reverted to the old trick of planting potatoes in an old plastic barrel bin. I had planned to use the plastic compost bin, however, we have a colony of bumble bees in there so it's their home now!
Next year is also the planting of more vegetables and fruit in barrels because that means no chemicals and we know where it all came from!
Also, the 12" (30cms) tall nightshade plant has...er...grown a bit. Need to move it from the front door where it is suitably identified as toxic in case some idiot plays about with it.
So that's my update. At least it was a sunny day!
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