In this day and age, so long as you are semi-literate, it is easy enough to write a book. Cut/copy and paste and alter the odd sentence and then throw a few over used images in.
There is a reason why I, specialising for over 40 years in reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity cases no longer buy new books on the subject. They are all the ame and add nothing new new just the ame old "Grey abduction agenda"...or Reptile abduction agenda...or Tall Whites abduction agenda...I lost count with David Jacobs last book -is another race in charge now?
Re-churning the Betty and Barney Hill case or the Kelly-Hopkinsville case or even the Flatwoods incident (which ha been re-written and rebooted so much I hardly recognise it). Two of those cases are from the 1950s and the Hills report is from 1961. Apparently the only report after that was the 1973 Pascagoula event and Travis Walton abduction.
Everything else is ignored because there wa either no big press interest or 'investigators' could not be bothered out of sheer laziness or racism. Oh, of course, incidents outside of the United States are of no interest.
And so we get stale old report or people adding twists and lie to old cases and even ignoring specific details -important detail.
For me, if I am producing a book then writing is only part of the work. So many names of faceless people in cases and I like to see what these people look like. It shows a human being who underwent an alleged UFO event or was involved in some other report of the strange. I also like to include maps that give readers some idea of the location involved.
A photograph taken over Alaska purporting to show the city of Bristol (the city I live in) is reported by Forteans and other "knowledgable" persons as having been "lost over 100 years ago". I search archives and find the source -and the, uh, 'lost photograph.
A drawing of an alleged wild canid given to London Zoological Gardens was 'lost' -I found it and since then it has been used by others without stating who found it.
I have many files and they have copies of pages and images from other 'lost' sources. To me these images or documents are not lost it is just a case that "scribblers" find it easier to churn out the same old stale lines than do any actual research -it is not just in this field of interest either.
Prof. David Bellamy described The Red Paper as "explosive research".
I have a reputation for finding things and that comes from investigation and research. For instance; the Forest of Mouliere.
In Flying Saucer Review vol. 16 no. 4, July/August 1970, is an article titled Eerie Night at the Chateau Des Martins. Written by Jean-Claude Baillon of Cercle d'Information des Phenomenes Insolites (CIESPI) it concerned a night-time incidents that, as far a I am aware, was never adequately concluded (see Mysterious `and Strange Beasts). Quite by accident Baillon came across a newspaper item on an old legend "The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere". The story is quoted but for me this was a mystery attached to another mystery.
As far as I could find out this FSR article was the only instance of the Mouliere story being printed in English. I was told that the "legend" was of no interest to UFO groups or others interested in mysteries -it was a local legend.
Well, it interested me. It took a week or so but I managed to get copies of the pages citing this mystery from the actual original source. I even managed to get a map that was useful and even a photograph of La Comtessa Dash taken later in her life.
And all of this then gets tidied up and presented in the book. But even then I still check regularly to see whether anything new can be found but to date -nothing.
The Beast of Faudiere and its exploits were mentioned in a letter in 1800, Tweny years on I still dig around.
And the most important thing is that each of my books is fully referenced so anyone can continue the research if they want to. No quote from this book or that book and no reference to the original source: it is all there.
