This is a general all-round post today though I really ought not to have explain it all again.
I was asked why this blog was so quiet. This shows how much some people read the blog. I have made it clear many times that the blog was set up to report on incidents and hear from people who may have sighted anything strange or weird from UFOs to unidentified creatures seen on land and at sea.
Since 2011 I have not had one single report or even link to a report come from readers of this blog. There are enough of you and spread world wide so the chances are you have either seen or read a report on something that would be of interest.
Look at the views total at the top of this page. Some 374,364 and I can tell you that apart from some people grabbing posts and reusing them without credit, 98% of those views have achieved nothing. I think that since I set this blog up I have sold two of my books. This blog and the books give you factual accounts and where cases are solved I list every reference used -to get to the real mystery cases you have to get rid of the trash.
Fakery, lies and worse run through Ufology, cryptozoology and most other fields. So called 'experts' have been proven to be hoaxing and lying and yet they still get support. Lies are, apparently, far better sellers than fact.
Without funding continuing work is not possible. I was urged to head north and investigate the "Hull werewolf" case or go to certain sites to look into "British Bigfoot" incidents. "Pop over" to Norfolk to look into some strange goings on there. Never going to happen because I long ago ran out of the money to travel and newspapers do not pay you to look into things.
Active work with the Exotic Animals Register stopped for the same reason. I am not independently wealthy and I certainly do not get paid for the work. Above all else, no one buys the books and that should have been the source of some income.
I have delved into archives, found so called "lost photographs", original reports and much more over 40 plus years -everything fully referenced. Not sexy. If I wrote a book full of fiction it would probably sell.
So, as it stands, with no book sales, no financial support the AOP blog like the EAR blog is getting to the point where it has to close. Too much work for nothing -not even comments.
I hope that makes it clear why the blog has been silent.
Time to support or watch the blog go.
I was asked why this blog was so quiet. This shows how much some people read the blog. I have made it clear many times that the blog was set up to report on incidents and hear from people who may have sighted anything strange or weird from UFOs to unidentified creatures seen on land and at sea.
Since 2011 I have not had one single report or even link to a report come from readers of this blog. There are enough of you and spread world wide so the chances are you have either seen or read a report on something that would be of interest.
Look at the views total at the top of this page. Some 374,364 and I can tell you that apart from some people grabbing posts and reusing them without credit, 98% of those views have achieved nothing. I think that since I set this blog up I have sold two of my books. This blog and the books give you factual accounts and where cases are solved I list every reference used -to get to the real mystery cases you have to get rid of the trash.
Fakery, lies and worse run through Ufology, cryptozoology and most other fields. So called 'experts' have been proven to be hoaxing and lying and yet they still get support. Lies are, apparently, far better sellers than fact.
Without funding continuing work is not possible. I was urged to head north and investigate the "Hull werewolf" case or go to certain sites to look into "British Bigfoot" incidents. "Pop over" to Norfolk to look into some strange goings on there. Never going to happen because I long ago ran out of the money to travel and newspapers do not pay you to look into things.
Active work with the Exotic Animals Register stopped for the same reason. I am not independently wealthy and I certainly do not get paid for the work. Above all else, no one buys the books and that should have been the source of some income.
I have delved into archives, found so called "lost photographs", original reports and much more over 40 plus years -everything fully referenced. Not sexy. If I wrote a book full of fiction it would probably sell.
So, as it stands, with no book sales, no financial support the AOP blog like the EAR blog is getting to the point where it has to close. Too much work for nothing -not even comments.
I hope that makes it clear why the blog has been silent.
Time to support or watch the blog go.
