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?
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 gettheir 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.
Standing in five feet of crocodile-infested water could very well have been photographer Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan’s favorite moment of 2017. That’s because the resulting shot of a shy orangutan has earned the Singapore native the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year. Nat Geo recently shared the winning photos of the annual contest, along with the top images in categories for landscapes, underwater, and aerials.
The winning photo, “Face to Face in a River in Borneo,” was shot when Bojan was photographing orangutans in the Tanjung Puting National Park, a multiday project that meant living in a houseboat. While there, the photographer heard of an orangutan with some unusual behavior — crossing the river. Bojan decided to spend some time by the river to see if he could spot the swimming primate. After waiting a full day and a night, his patience was rewarded when a ranger spotted the primate further down the river.
Rather than risk scaring off the animal, Bojan hopped into the Sekoyner River at a spot about five feet deep. The river is also said to be home to some freshwater crocodiles, but Bojan just focused on the orangutan. The orangutan hid from the photographer behind a tree — and Bojan captured the winning shot when he peeked out from the side of the tree.
“Honestly, sometimes you just go blind when things like this happen,” he said. “You’re so caught up. You really don’t know what’s happening. You don’t feel the pain, you don’t feel the mosquito bites, you don’t feel the cold, because your mind is completely lost in what’s happening in front of you.”
For the winning shot, Bojan received $10,000 and publication in National Geographic’s magazine and Instagram.
The judges — Nat Geo senior photo editor of natural history Kathy Moran, Nat Geo photographer Anand Varma, and photographer Michaela Skovranova — also selected category winners. For landscapes, Karim Iliya of Hawaii took first for her shot of the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. A shot of an anemone won Jim Obester of Washington first for the underwater category. For aerial shots, Todd Kennedy won first for a shot of a rock pool in Sydney.
A few
years back I decided that it might be nice to play with other people for a
while. Or "cooperate" and work with other people involved in
'ghost hunting'. I obviously tried the two local groups that I knew of
and they seemed pleasant enough.
However, after more than a year I
had still not been invited on any of their investigations and there had been a
few. So I began being more straight forward and asked whether there was a
problem?
"Well, we were...a little
concerned about why you wanted to join. You have a ...reputation".
I asked what type of reputation and
it seems that my name was known in ghost hunting circles as a sceptic and
someone that stood no nonsense and did not accept claims without solid
evidence. The other group responded that "Oh, we were concerned you were
trying to expose us or something!"
I
explained as politely as I could that no one person or group needed to be
concerned about me if everything was above board and honest. That seemed
to ease things. Ten years later I am still waiting to be invited on an
investigation by either group!
(c)2017 T. Hooper-Scharf
Back when
video cameras began to emerge, if you are old enough to remember the 1990s,
ghost orbs were everywhere. Either a single
orb or a group of orbs appeared in photographs.
TV show presenters asked photographers and ‘experts’ whether they could
explain these orbs –none could. Well, I
guess these were “paid to say what they are told” style ‘experts’ because I was
telling everyone that orbs were dust and/or dirt particles and the way a
digital camera worked was nothing like the old film-roll cameras. Then came the “rods” and when digital video
cameras started picking these up there were theories of every kind other than
the obvious –“rods” were insects caught flying past and not inter-dimensional,
alien or any “previously unknown creature.
That in
2017 cobwebs, hairs, dust and dirt particles, breath mist and insects are still
being called paranormal takes a very special kind of stupid…or liar. Let’s not go into camera straps getting in
the way of lenses or thumbs!
(c) 2017 T. Hooper-Scharf
To prove
the point I refreshed the cats litter tray with fullers earth and turned the
light off and waited one minute and the took a photograph with the camera flash
on. Then two minutes –photograph. Five
minutes and photograph again. The
results were very impressive even five minutes later. Two years ago with a more modern digital camera
I tried the experiment again and the results were very poor because the
improvements in digital camera technology.
Digital
recorders to “record EVPs” (Electronic Voice Phenomenon or ghost voices) are a
con. Those involved have to turn volume
levels to full and even then the awful racket on the recordings themselves are
what are being interpreted as ‘words’.
There is a very good why I used a tape Dictaphone and a digital one because
the old style Dictaphones are far clearer.
It is the
amount of information that digital cameras and Dictaphones record that create
the ‘ghostly’ and those involved in the field know this –hence the pretend ‘scientific’
instruments they use. Let’s not discuss
the torch/flashlight responding to questions –read this post: http://terryhooper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/on-ufos-sasquatch-and-ghost-hunting.html
And when
you tell me “We have two psychics on the team that give us lots of information”
or “We have Sensitives in our group who pick up on things and communicate with
spirits” I tend to back off. I have no
time for silliness and fakery and have seen –even on broadcast TV shows- two or
three ‘psychics’ give conflicting information…presenters get very creative
explaining this. I do not dismiss “psychics”
but have seen no evidence over the decade of genuine abilities (which means I’ll
believe if you can prove it).
Leaping
forward to around 2015, I contacted a very well known US investigator
of UFOs and strange creatures about two sightings on his website. I was told that I did not need to introduce
myself as “Your name crops up in discussion groups and on websites” (wow. I am a celebrity!). Things seemed to be going well as we
exchanged emails and then I made the fatal error.
I had
just re-read a Flying Saucer Review article from the 1970s about a “UFO-Bigfoot”
incident. Something didn’t seem to gel
in the account about the main percipient.
Then I found the case report in detail in one of the investigator’s
books and some of the odd events before and after the main incident made it very clear that the percipient was
experiencing altered states (I go into detail on what “altered states” are in High
Strangeness/aka UFO Contact?)
So, very carefully as I did not want to seem rude or a
debunker, I explained why I thought this was the case. I have not heard from this investigator since.
With another UFO case I knew what the explanation was and I
had three sources that documented the case (none of these three sources –none had
anything to do with UFOs- had the slightest inkling that the phenomenon
involved had been called a UFO) and gave full details and explained the process
of the phenomenon. I sent these along. The response?
Well, one less person to send a Christmas greeting to I suppose!
The problem is that this reputation of mine runs in
cryptozoology, Ufology, ghost hunting and other circles. But why is this a problem? If a group or individual is honest and looking
for facts and the truth then they have to be open to constructive suggestions
or theories. These are not “attacks” or “debunking attempts”
but how Science does things: if I say that such-and-such was “This” and the
investigator(s) look into this and can counter with evidence that dismisses “This”
then we move on and ask what else it might be before declaring “it” a true
Unknown.
The problem is that very few attempt to conduct their work
using scientific principles. Having all sorts of pretend equipment or not
knowing the pitfalls of the gear being used might look good in the local press
when these people claim “We are very science based and carry out police style
investigations” but it is not
Science. Using your pet psychic is not Scientific.
I have caught people out telling lies because they feel they
will lose face if a case they have hailed in the local press or on TV turns out
to be nothing. The “Big Boys”, of
course, are terrified of losing money as well as losing face as both are part
of their entertainment “Biz”.
I really should never scare anyone who is genuine. I am not here to say “Oh, you thought it was
a ghost/UFO/strange creature you silly fool!” and then mock them in the press
and media. I made mistakes. I made a lot
of mistakes when I started out over four decades ago but I learnt and if I can
pass that knowledge on to others then that is great. No one should ever be scared of learning
something new.
Even with wildlife and natural history I have learnt from
experience and pass the knowledge along based on recorded observations that
others can double or triple check to confirm
There are no Sasquatch type creatures in the UK and there is no evidence for such in the UK. There are non native cats and other species
that are established here and for which there is abundant evidence: they are
not “paracryptids” or “Zooforms” but solid, living, natural animals. Ghosts –the dead returned? Doubt it but then what are they –that is what
we should be looking at.
UFOs –see my last book on that subject.
I am only interested in discovery new things and learning
and no one needs to be afraid of me…unless they are lying or frauds.
What is this strange animal? Man captures unique creature tearing up his grass
JUNE 28, 2017, BY KELSEY OTT, UPDATED AT 03:29PM, JUNE 29, 2017
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man trapped an animal that was tearing up his grass, but it's nothing he's seen before.
"I don't know what it is. Some people say it's an albino raccoon, some said it's an albino fox. I don't know what it is. It's just an animal that I want to get rid of, and no one wants to come and get it," Calvin Lee said.
The captured animal compared to a photo of a baby albino raccoon. We think it's a match!
WREG investigated, and we believe it's a young albino raccoon.
Albino raccoons are not very common and struggle to survive in the wild because their light coats prevent them from camouflaging.
Now that that question's been answered, it still leaves the question of what to do with it.
"I called the police department, I called Apex. They said they'd come and set the traps, but they don't come an pick up trapped animals. So, I don't know what to do with it, so I called Channel 3 News. Maybe you guys will know what to do with it," Lee said with a laugh. "I don't want to put it down, I wouldn't turn it loose. I wanna call someone to come and get it. Maybe there's someone out there who wants it. I don't want it."
Apex Wildlife Control told WREG it did offer to take the animal and release it in its animal reserve in north Tennessee. However, Apex said Lee declined the offer because it would cost a small fee.
We asked the Memphis Zoo and the City of Memphis what Lee should do with the animal, but we didn't hear back Wednesday. By Thursday, Calvin's wife, Barbara, released it on a country road.
Another story that hit the internet seems, amongst certain circles, to be a mystery animal. A cryptid. Again it is a case of ignoring the follow-up stories that are as easy to find as the first 'discovery' story. Mystery canids of large size in Japan are very likely also feral dogs.
Mysterious dog-like creature found wandering in Russian woods
A dog-like animal with a bear-like face was found wandering in Russian woods. The strange dog baffled people trying to figure out what type of breed it is.
A mysterious dog-like creature was found wandering out of a forest in Russia and is currently confusing locals and others because nobody seems to know exactly what breed it is.
The furry, brown and dog-like creature seems to have a bear-like face.
The brown animal baffled locals ever since it was taken to an animal shelter in the city of Chelyabinsk in south-central Russia’s Cheliabinsk Oblast region. The creature is currently known as “Igor”.
According to numerous reports, the animal stands on four legs and has thick brown fur. Animal rights activists also admittedly said they have “never seen anything like it before.”
Veterinarians who examined the dog estimate the male canine to be around four-years-old.
Nash Dom animal shelter released photos of the animal on VK, Russia’s biggest social media platform, in hopes of finding the animal’s owner or breeder.
Some believe that the animal has chow chow ancestry. According to The Sun, vets said that although they are not sure, it is likely that the dog looks that way due to being a strange cross of a stray dog and chow chow. The animal’s blue tongue also indicated that it might have generated from a chow chow.
Shelter volunteer, Polina Kefer also believe this to be true.
She also told the Siberian Times that it’s like the pet markets accepting dogs from breeders who claim their animals are a purebred. Once the puppies mature into something like this dog, they’re discarded like a “broken toy.”
She also said that the animal isn’t approachable. He’s reportedly in serious stress and fights back when people try to interact with him.
Other volunteers also reportedly said that they’ve tried their best foods on him: “The dog is clearly so stressed that it might take weeks, if not months, to help him trust people again.”
I have to admit that seeing 'cryptozoologists' still claiming this is an unidentified creature and that a "wall of silence was thrown up" after it was reported in the news and nothing has appeared on the subject since is somewhat ludicrous and worthy of contempt.
Here is the original news story that appear in newspapers and online:
Mystery Of ‘Mummified Monster’ Found In Sub-Arctic Siberian Diamond Mine
Miners believe it may be a previously unknown type of dinosaur
Experts give their macabre verdict on mummified remains after speculation a new type of dinosaur had been found.
Diamondiferous sands where it was unearthed date from the Mesozoic Era from about 252 to 66 million years ago. Picture: YSIA
The remains of this strange creature-looking were found in Mesozoic Era at one of Russia's leading diamond mines in the Sakha Republic. Scientists were initially puzzled about the animal, apparently well preserved thanks to the climate in Siberia's coldest region.
But leading paleontologist, Semyon Grigoryev, director of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, was in no doubt.
'It is a skinned sable, a modern one,' he said.
Scientists were initially puzzled about the animal, apparently well preserved thanks to the climate in Siberia's coldest region. Picture: YSIA
A scientist at the Institute of Permafrost Studies said: 'We think it was a sable. Yet we cannot say the age of this mummy, because a special study would be needed.'
This was also the verdict of hunters, who suggest it was a sable that was killed and skinned, with the body being buried in the sand.
'The animal was killed a few years ago, the hunter skinned it and left the body, maybe even dug it into the sand. It mummified, probably because of the freezing winters,' TV channel Almazny Kray were told by specialists.
This was also the verdict of hunters, who suggest it was a sable that was killed and skinned. Picture: Alexander Krivoshapkin
The diamond miners who found it believed it could be an ancient dinosaur of a species never seen before. The mystery animal was found near Udachny - literally meaning 'lucky'.
Diamondiferous sands where it was unearthed date from the Mesozoic Era from about 252 to 66 million years ago.
The town is famous for the Udachnaya pipe diamond deposit, discovered in 1955, and mined since the 1960s.
Always search or go to the source and find out the truth!
Mysterious Creature washes ashore on Cap Coast beach
THERE are many curiosities lurking beneath the waves and the discovery of a mystery creature on Emu Park beach has further sparked interest in what exactly lives beneath the depths.
Justin Hill discovered a deceased creature, “about 1.5 metres long” on the beach Thursday morning and reached out to the Yeppoon Families Facebook page for clarification.
According to Mr Hill, the creature appeared to be a shark, but it was unclear what kind it may be.
A further comment by Mr Hill on the post stated that the shark’s head was “the size of a basketball” and was “very flat [and] round” and it had teeth.
The tail area also appeared to be “eaten away” particularly on one side, and the creature had a set of gills, which speculators said eliminated the possibility it was a seal.
With Emu Park attracting some of the largest sharks on the coast, the surprise discovery calls to light the Senate inquiry regarding the replacement of shark nets and drumlines with “smart” drumlines.
The inquiry has been led by the Greens to ensure a safer alternative to shark restrictions and has Labor’s backing.
The “smart” drumlines will enable a rescue crew to to save and tag caught sharks.
The Coalition is rejecting the inquiry.
On January 6, 2016, a three to four metre tiger shark was spotted off Zilzie’s beach, headed towards Emu Park main beach.
The Yeppoon Coast Guard were contacted for comment.
In the meantime, fisherman and Morning Bulletin columnist Scott Lynch weighed in, saying:
“It is not a seal. It is most likely a grey reef shark. Seal has no gills for a start and a similar bone structure in their flipper that we have in our hands.”
Sarah Tysoe is ruling out any chance of the creating being a seal:
“All those people who say seal mustn’t do much fishing. Definitely a shark,” she posted.
Other commenters have said:
Grace Rayner: “That’s just the decaying body. The tail is facing the wrong direction for an animal that has gills. Most definitely a mammal – seal.”
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