"Tell us about Your Books"

 

I was asked what makes my books different from others? I will try without boring.

Firstly it has to be the amount of research involved. It would be easy to write a book where every case is labelled "unexplainable".  The importance of the research is to look at cases and sort out which can be easily explained and which defy explanation. The books are not debunking but look at the facts and there are fully referenced sources that anyone can check -these days they can probably do so online.

There are maps, illustrations and photographs and through archive research I have found photographs that have been declared (by Forteans, cryptozoologists and ufologists) as "lost over a hundred years ago". I looked.

These are not dry reads. People who have read them have all described the books as "lively and not using over-complicated explanations". The point is that I  want a good read when I buy a book and one that does not gtreat me like an idiot or spout over technical jargon that means having to find out what the hell someone is talking about. I think that anyone buying my books should expect a good read and not be talked down to. In ovber 45 years I have had to learn about atmospherics, aeronautics, astronomy, psychology and much more. So anything of that nature I explain in easily understood language.

"He (me) writes as though talking face-to-face with the reader" -I would accept that. The more "We should be looked at as the Elite" do not like that approach. Tough. I am not doing this work to look like a super scientist who no one understands but takes the word of.

One thing I always loved was getting my hands on chunky books. Lots of pages and illoes or photographs that made a great fun read. My books tend to have over 300 pages and are A4 in format. Each chapter deals with a seperate case so it is not a case of start reading about the Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island on page 5 and having to wait until page 310 for a conclusion. Everything on a case or series ofreports is self contained with full references at the end of each chapter.

I have a rather glowing appraisalof UFO Contact? from the Centre for UFO Studies aswell as other groups. When people start pinching your original work and use it uncredited on their blogs and in their books you must be doing something right.

Each book, because I saw these as a way to educate those interested in a subject or research, is priced atthe absolute bare minimum and when a copy of  UFO Contact? is sold I 'earn' about £2/$2 -remember I have spent thousands of $/£ in over45 years gathering and investigating cases.

The books themselves I hope willinspire new investigators and researchers rather than sensationalist lie-mongers. Seriously, if just ONE person goes on to investigate and research a subject based on one of my books I will be happy. Poor but happy!

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Are There No More SERIOUS UFO Investigators? The Answer Seems To Be "No"

It has been four years since I tried to interest investigators in the United States into opening the 1960s Kathy Reeves case and the 1973 Euporia case. Nothing. MUFON were uninterested as, let's face it, no money or publicity involved why bother and they still have their prejudices of course.

There are a good few reports from the 1960s right up until the 1980s thatwere never investigated. Press clippings provided all the information needed for a book or article and to draw erroneous conclusions.

There may still be time, a lot of these witnesses are now going to be in their 60s or 70s. Once gone we have lost details of what happened. Perhaps genuinely unexplained incidents.

I would appeal again but, sadly, I've been doing so since the early 2000s and  no one is interested. Have the serious UFO investigators all died outand the flim-flam suited men/women taken over?

Let me know.

 I am quite aware that no one wants to really get involved but here I go again.

In a few weeks I hope to get to work on a new book. It will again concentrate on CE3K/AE reports and I will be looking at several cases where US ranches were experienciong similar phenomena to "SkinWalker Ranch". I will also be examing some cases from the 1970s to re-assess them.

Cases do not have to be confined to the United States, of course. So I wondered which case members feel would deserve a more up-to-date look at?

That simple. So any ideas let me know.

Three UFO Books That Everyone Needs To Read

UFO CONTACT?

Pages  530

Binding  Paperback

Interior Color Black & White

Dimensions  A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

Fully illustrated.

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.

 Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously. In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers. 

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Which cases seem genuine and have corroborative evidence to back up the claims?

 2020  is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology. 

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Contact! Encounters with Extra Terrestrial Entities?

Pages  370

Binding  Paperback

Interior Color   Black & White

Dimensions A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

Fully Illustrated

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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years. 

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress. 

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

 Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?

Unidentified -Identified

Pages   220

Binding Paperback

Interior Color  Black & White

Dimensions  A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

Fully Illustrated

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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2020 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. 

Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

 A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs

Mysterious Lights and "Something Behind The Camera" -the truth about trail cams (cats are smarter than humans)

 There are certain fallacies regarding the use of trail/game cams. The main one is that animals cannot detect them or the 'invisible flash' when a photo is taken.

I have footage of a fox that was very wary and jumpy -I had no idea why until I checked the second game cam. The second camera was ata different angle to get a rear view of an animal  -in this case to determine the sex of foxes at a site. This also afforded a view of the position of the first camera.

What I saw was surprising. The very nervous fox was jumping as camera 1 took photos of it. The magnitude of the flash was very surprising. When the camera was removed the nervous fox acted       normally. So foxes could definitely see the 'invisible' camera flash.

Watching other clips and images from cameras I noted domestic cats also jumped when the cameras took photos.In fact, in one clip a cat can be see jumping as the photo is taken. Two cats even play at getting the ground level camera to flash! Once use to the camera flash the cats continue as normal. Without fail all three of the cameras I use were visited by and sniffed over by cats.

Now if canids and felids can detect the flashes and react itputs a whole different slant on certain 'unexplained' video clips usedon TV and in You Tube videos. "The deer cannot detect the camera flash and are clearly looking at something behind the camera" No. They are looking at the flash from the camera. Then we have the clips where "A mysterious light flares up in the background -there is no explanation as to what the source of this light is. It is unexplainable". No. I have seen exactly the same thing: it is a second trail cam flash. When you hear people say they have trail cams "scattered  all over this area" it is not surprising these bright flashes are picked up by other cameras -I have enough images to prove this and a tree or bush branch moving slightly will set of cameras.

I, as a human (no, I really am) cannot detect the camera flash but it is quite clear animals can.and certain cats appear to love making a game of setting the cameras off.

above and below: This cat "A" is fond of "striking a pose" after playing around in front of the camera. In some photos, while in this pose, the cat is making sure that she is being photographed. I even have images where a paw is waved in front of the camera to make it flash -a  second camera showing this.

Below: Cat "A" again images he islooking up to where a camera was placed (it had never been placed in that [position before and this was in the rear garden not front). She then jumped upon to the wood planks and "performed" -she also did this indaylight after checking that the camera was still there!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Below we have Cat A who saw, approached and played in front of the camera before getting bored. Rear of property, side of property-cats have absolutely no problem finding the camera -concealed or in the open.

Below: Cat "B" is a young cat and at first reacted as foxes did to the camera but got used to it. She now deliberately sets the camera off by waving her paw in front of it as well as her tail. On thios occasion she approached the camera and repeatedly moved back and forth setting it off until she got bored...and a hundred images of her head and shoulders were captured.

Before anyone askes -there is nothing where the camera is placed to attract her attention just the camera: that was part of the test.

Cat C  also notices the flashes from the camera but has  no real interest after checking out the camera.

In fact, Cat C deliberately looks at the camera and posed for three photos before moving off.

So, when those 'experts' tell you about mysterious lights from trail cams or that animals are looking at something 'behind' the camera -they are frauds or have no idea about the cameras they use.

Just To Back Up My Last Post

 Just to prove a point. Today is a quiet day for views but look at the numbers (it is 14:41 hrs BST).

Not one single person providing these views has read of any new sea or other creature sightings? The odds against that are fairly high.

The fact that no one buys books now -mine are thoroughly researched, referenced, illustrated and even contain photogrtaphsthought lost over 100 years ago- shows how far down interest has slumped.

Sad in so many ways.

United States	179
Russia	175
Australia	17
Qatar	12
Germany	8
France	8
Canada	6
United Kingdom	5
Italy	2
Japan	2
Netherlands	2
Ukraine	2
Belgium	1
Brazil	1
Spain	1
Philippines	1
Other	2