Monday, 11 November 2019
How Dare I? Questioning Stale Ufology
"How dare you?? Who the hell do you think you are?"
That was a reaction to my stating that the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction case and the "Hill Star Map" were done and dusted decades ago. It was a genuine or psychological/fake incident. I have no reason to doubt the Hills since both were subject to scrutiny of even their most private lives by debunkers and came through it all. I have no reason to doubt that the incident in New Hampshire took place but that was 1961 and both percipients are now deceased. As for the star map: it was interesting but really proved nothing in the end since even Betty Hill stated that she was unsure of all the details and without all the details you have...not much.
There were alleged abductions by entities from UFOs prior to the Hills. In a number of cases the percipients were invited aboard a landed object but declined and that was it. Americans love to be first and so the Hill case is a shining example: it got lots of press and a few books -the Hills not profiting from any of these- and all because their confidentiality and privacy was breached. Ufologists today constantly churn up the Hill case because "everyone knows it" -it is a stale classic. Every time I see Ufologists on TV and they start with "In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were--" my eyes roll so far back that I can now map the back of my skull.
There really are other incidents out there and not just from the United States. France? Germany? Australia? The United Kingdom -alleged alien abduction cases and most widely un known because the case reports are not in the English language. My chapter on German CE3Ks in Contact: Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? took a great deal of work aside from translating material and not one single German UFO group I contacted was willing to help in any capacity (how things have changed since the internet!). As far as I am aware, the book is the best and only English language source of so many German (pre-Hopkins/Streiber) CE3K reports.
Portugal also gets a little coverage but, again, despite some promises, Portuguese Ufologists did not help out. Is it any surprised so many non-US/UK cases are unknown?
Not surprisingly Europe seems somewhat similar the the United States when it comes to looking at what could be called "cold cases" or cases that went un-investigated (armchair ufology based on collecting newspaper clippings is NOT research nor is it investigation).
Let me make it very clear since it seems difficult to make people understand a basic fact (especially ufologists): witnesses to CE3K or abduction percipients from the 1950s and 1960s not to forget the 1970s, are getting older. Some have already passed away. A scrappy 1 inch news report does NOT tell you the whole story. Once those involved have passed away their experience and memories are gone. That is it. No indignant "Well why the hell did no pone carry out a proper investigation!" MUFON are not interested (no money in it) and groups in Europe seem to not be interested.
I would guess that 95-96% of claims can be dismissed for one reason or another. That remaining 4-5% are the reports we should -MUST- be looking at for evidence.
I am a sceptic which is NOT a debunker but someone who needs to see the evidence backing up reports/claims.
Remember: once a UFO percipient/witness dies their evidence dies with them. Lost forever.
That is unacceptable.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/contact-encounters-with-extra-terrestrial-entities/paperback/product-23926690.html
That was a reaction to my stating that the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction case and the "Hill Star Map" were done and dusted decades ago. It was a genuine or psychological/fake incident. I have no reason to doubt the Hills since both were subject to scrutiny of even their most private lives by debunkers and came through it all. I have no reason to doubt that the incident in New Hampshire took place but that was 1961 and both percipients are now deceased. As for the star map: it was interesting but really proved nothing in the end since even Betty Hill stated that she was unsure of all the details and without all the details you have...not much.
There were alleged abductions by entities from UFOs prior to the Hills. In a number of cases the percipients were invited aboard a landed object but declined and that was it. Americans love to be first and so the Hill case is a shining example: it got lots of press and a few books -the Hills not profiting from any of these- and all because their confidentiality and privacy was breached. Ufologists today constantly churn up the Hill case because "everyone knows it" -it is a stale classic. Every time I see Ufologists on TV and they start with "In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were--" my eyes roll so far back that I can now map the back of my skull.
There really are other incidents out there and not just from the United States. France? Germany? Australia? The United Kingdom -alleged alien abduction cases and most widely un known because the case reports are not in the English language. My chapter on German CE3Ks in Contact: Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? took a great deal of work aside from translating material and not one single German UFO group I contacted was willing to help in any capacity (how things have changed since the internet!). As far as I am aware, the book is the best and only English language source of so many German (pre-Hopkins/Streiber) CE3K reports.
Portugal also gets a little coverage but, again, despite some promises, Portuguese Ufologists did not help out. Is it any surprised so many non-US/UK cases are unknown?
Not surprisingly Europe seems somewhat similar the the United States when it comes to looking at what could be called "cold cases" or cases that went un-investigated (armchair ufology based on collecting newspaper clippings is NOT research nor is it investigation).
Let me make it very clear since it seems difficult to make people understand a basic fact (especially ufologists): witnesses to CE3K or abduction percipients from the 1950s and 1960s not to forget the 1970s, are getting older. Some have already passed away. A scrappy 1 inch news report does NOT tell you the whole story. Once those involved have passed away their experience and memories are gone. That is it. No indignant "Well why the hell did no pone carry out a proper investigation!" MUFON are not interested (no money in it) and groups in Europe seem to not be interested.
I would guess that 95-96% of claims can be dismissed for one reason or another. That remaining 4-5% are the reports we should -MUST- be looking at for evidence.
I am a sceptic which is NOT a debunker but someone who needs to see the evidence backing up reports/claims.
Remember: once a UFO percipient/witness dies their evidence dies with them. Lost forever.
That is unacceptable.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/contact-encounters-with-extra-terrestrial-entities/paperback/product-23926690.html
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