Book Formats

To be honest, having now seen both formats for High Strangeness/UFO Contact and Mysterious & Strange Beasts/Strange & Mysterious Beasts I will be dropping the smaller format size in future though the two sizes for these books will remain in the online store.

The reason is a practical one. A great deal of work and effort goes into these books and someone is then, hopefully, going to buy a copy and I want that person to enjoy the book.  With the A4 format the photographs, illustrations, etc., come out in a lot more detail because, obviously, it is the larger format.  I think the quality holds up in both so it depends on what the customer wants.

Personally, I think the larger format is best so I will stick to that in future.

More Zoo Animals Die...in ANOTHER Fire

I am getting sick and tired of this happening. I always wondered when I was a police consultant, why these zoos and safari parks I contacted seemed to almost panic. I think it is because of their incompetence.

London Zoo -it had to be a dog walker alerting people to the fire and animals died. Now this -13 Patas monkies (Erythrocebus patas). You see, years ago, zoo keepers did night and day shifts and patrolled the zoos at night and any problem they acted.

Now it is someone sat behind a monitor nodding off between dunking his biscuits in a cup of tea.

And zoos AND safari parks have very successful breeding...too many...no other zoo wants to buy...kill them. Oh, sorry..."euthanize" them. All while extolling the virtue of the great work they are doing in making money...I mean helping the species survive.

I really hate Humans.

 Also, ONE zoo fire in the early morning accident. TWO zoo fires in the early morning...suspiciously coincidental: establishments need to tighten up security.

13 monkeys die after fire breaks out at Woburn Safari Park

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/13-monkeys-die-fire-breaks-woburn-safari-park-092652613.html

Thirteen Patas monkeys have died after a fire broke out at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire.

The park’s owners said the enclosure within the African Forest drive-through caught fire in the early hours.

An investigation is under way into the cause of the fire.

Woburn homes more than 1,000 animals in a road and foot safari. This includes rhinos, giraffes, elephants, lions, monkeys and tigers.

The attraction will remain open to the public.

In a statement the park said: “In the early hours of Tuesday 2nd January, a fire broke out in the Patas Monkey house within the African Forest drive-through enclosure of the park.

“Staff and fire crews attended the scene; however, devastatingly for everyone at the park, none of the 13 animals could be saved.

“All other animals within the jungle drive-through enclosure are being monitored, but early signs suggest that they have not been affected.

“An investigation is under way into the cause of the fire and while the park will remain open, the Jungle enclosure will remain closed for investigation.”

“The park is grateful to the quick response from Bedfordshire Fire Brigade, who attended with three appliances.”

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was spotted by security guards on a routine patrol before firefighters arrived at 2.37am.

“They found the outbuilding housing Patas monkeys was well alight and its roof had fallen in,” it said in a statement.

“They fought the fire using fire hoses while wearing breathing apparatus to protect themselves from the smoke and fumes.

“The building was 90% damaged by the fire.”

The fire service said the incident was over by 4.46am.

The Alien Remains Found In Peru in 2017...Fact?

Sadly, this case never made it into Strange & Mysterious Beasts as I never got certain expected confirmation -after all, my field are felids, canids and wolverine.  But this is how the story ran -and still does with the help of sensationalist journalists looking to continue boosting ratings and  that odd mixture of cryptozoologist-ufologist.

Yahoo News 8th January, 2017:

Explorer claims 'alien claw' and 'skull' found in Peru tunnelsYahoo News 8th

Self-proclaimed paranormal researchers say they have proof of an "alien claw" after discovering a three-fingered bone structure in tunnels in Peru.

'Alien claw' and ' mummified skull' found in caves below Peruvian desert

The Institute Inkari-Cusco, a group of "paranormal enthusiasts", said they also discovered a skull close to where they allegedly spotted the "hand".

The claims have not yet to be verified, but the researchers said they found the bones while searching caves and tunnels across Cusco in January 2016.

Researchers claim they have proof of an "alien claw" discovered in tunnels in Peru. Source: YouTube/Tyler Cusco

Dr Edson Salazar Vivanco concluded that the "mummified hand" was 33 cm long, has three fingers, metallic implants. Source: YouTube/Tyler Cusco

French researcher and explorer, Thierry Jamin, released the findings on his Facebook page on November 27.

He said, researcher Dr Edson Salazar Vivanco used x-rays and concluded that the "mummified hand" was 33 cm long, has three fingers, metallic implants.

"According to some estimates of physicians, archaeologists and anthropologists, this hand belonged to an individual whose size was maybe between 2.7m to 3m tall," Dr Vivanco said, according to aPeruvian blog.

"This hand belonged to an individual whose size was maybe between 2.7m to 3m tall," Dr Vivanco said. Source: YouTube/Tyler Cusco

French researcher and explorer, Thierry Jamin, released the findings. Source: YouTube/Tyler Cusco

'Paranormal enthusiasts' said they also discovered an elongated skull in the same area. Source: YouTube/Tyler Cusco

Dr Vivanco claimed the "claw" and "skull" were genuine biological objects with real bone and skin tissues and further testing was underway.

The researchers will conduct further radiocarbon and DNA testing of the mysterious specimens in the US in early in 2017.

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Now to me this is all pure bovine excretia.  More fantasy by persons looking to make money or become celebrities.   The only reason I actually checked the story in the first place was because I was looking at images relating to South American mammals that might be mistakenly identified as "mystery hominids" (long story).  There was the photograph and so I checked out the story.

I have no doubt what-so-ever that these are the remains of nothing more than a Three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus). Buried away in a cave for a very long time with dirt and grime building up on the skull -I note that these persons have not revealed the skeletons of these 'aliens' only the "hands" and head because they look strange and so are exploitable.

Here -a three-toed sloth skull and skeleton (the latter from the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology):

Liars, frauds and cheats always need to be exposed.

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The Most Ground Breaking UFO Revelations Ever (well...)

Is everyone involved in Ufology just very dim these days?  They are astounded by documents released by the British Ministry of Defence via the National Archives such as:

1) UFO reports have been taken “seriously” by some of those in the Ministry of Defence in England, particularly by some of its “scientists and engineers”

I am sorry but the MoD has always stated that it can call upon scientists and other professionals to look at UFO reports and it has been widely known since the 1950s that there were those who believed UFOs were not of this Earth and those who did not.   There is nothing astonishing or ground-breaking in this.

2) A decision was taken in 1993 to classify a UFO study for the British Ministry of Defence and its output as “SECRET UK EYES B” explicitly “since a potential exists for political embarrassment”

Again,  nothing new. The whole reason that the AOP Bureau's officially unofficial worked stopped was because every agreement made by those who instigated the AOP B was reneged upon because it might be embarrassing. 

3) The British Ministry of Defence in 1993 was aware from intelligence sources that “Russia believes that such phenomena exist and has a small team studying them”

Again,  NOTHING new. The UK, France, Australia, United States -everyone knew that the Russians had a small UFO study group and there were enough articles about it in publications such as FSR in the 1980s.

4) The British Ministry of Defence was aware in 1993 that “an informal group exists in the US intelligence community” in relation to UFOs and that it was possible that this reflected “a more formal organization” or “more formal assessment activity”

Oh really, I am not writing "again".

5) In 1982, unnamed “US authorities” wished to have copies of any reports on a UFO incident which involved the launching of two USN F14 aircraft and the diversion of a RAF Phantom to “assist” a USAF aircraft to the south of Cyprus involved in a “UFO incident”. The few documents on this incident in the relevant file refer to various materials which are not included in the released material

I write nothing!

6) A British Air Attache in Paris in 1977 reported in that “the French military authorities had found nothing of an aggressive nature in the sightings although their scientists had been unable to explain the phenomena”

Okay, absolutely nothing new. As I discussed in High Strangeness/UFO Contact? the French attitude has been consistent since the 1940s and every other country could have learnt from "The French method". NOTHING new.

7) The Ministry of Defence had learnt in relation to sightings over Belgium in 1990 “informally, that the view of the Belgian Air Force is that a craft of some sort was involved and that they maintain an open mind on the sightings, which remain unexplained”

Oh come on. These points are all being treated by certain "elitist" (it is how they see themselves) Ufologists, who do everything from a comfy chair so as not to bruise their arses, as ground-breaking. This is the state of 'Ufology' now.

No, the Ministry of Defence never sent out "Men In Black" to silence witnesses and there was never ever a secret UFO study headed by Nick Pope -I had an internet exchange with an American over this last week and gave up because...the person in question seemed unable to understand what I was stating. The UK has always exchanged UFO information with its allies but mainly as an informal "So what's new?" Q&A.

From trying to set out investigating flying saucers in the early 1950s to subject has devolved into a factless, repetitive arm of the entertainment industry. Are there no really serious Ufologists out there now or is it all now pure spin?

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This Is A Worrying Trend

So how do I relax on Christmas Day? I check out You Tube videos.  And I notice that there is a very worrying trend.


"Mad Sasquatch attack!!"
"Aggressive group of Sasquatch"
"Terrorised by a Sasquatch!"

And many other similarly titled videos.  There are videos with vocalisations that could be "Bigfooters" out "Squatch-calling" or even coyotes.  Certainly some bear warning off vocalisations and this follows on from years of TV and online fakery and lies.

But then we have the comments to videos about "As the sasquatch population is growing they move closer to urban areas" and "They are moving into urban areas and unchallenged its humans who will pay the price" to which can be added: "We heard these noises in the forest close-by and we need to move before they attack!"

The fact that humans are cutting swathes out of forests and covering former game trails or habitat with houses is NOT wildlife/Sasquatch "invading" urban areas but humans invading THEIR areas.

It seems that in the United states EVERYTHING is out to kill humans so needs to be killed.  Wolves, wolverines, badgers -you name it and people will shoot it.  When you see two grinning morons hunters posing next to a truck load of wolves they just killed you understand what "Federal protection" of a species means.

Say a Sasquatch was shot and this proved they existed -what then? Federal protection won't do any good because the good ole boys with guns will want to get their trophy protect their families and livelihoods and the rich hunters will want one, too.   Constantly building up a very faked threat from a species simply puts it in the sights of anyone with a gun -"It was standing there and looked at me and I'm sure it was going to attack so I shot it!" (people killing wolves have tried that one).

Wildlife -which includes Sasquatch if they exist,- live in the wild whether forests or mountains. It has been where they lived before Europeans landed in North America -and I include the Vikings, Irish and Welsh before Columbus.

Leave the wildlife alone and it will leave you alone.  Bigfoot is not going to go on an inner city rampage.