Signal from Proxima Centauri....or WHY SETI Needs To Be Shut Down

 Far be it for me to say "its odd" but I'm waiting to see the paper because either the original source DELIBERATELY gave misleading information or things are not adding up.

This also shows that despite all the claims that "we" (the free meal for lifers at SETI) would not be detecting signals left, right and centre if aliens were out there we wouldn't; this is Science trying to pretend it KNOWS when it clearly does not. "Put your trust in Svcience and we'll get the answers" is a good catchphrase until you look at the record of how many of those involved in astronomy and SETI at high levels are terrified at the prospect -look at the reaction in this case before the details were known. Go and check for yourself the very public statement that "It is never ever aliens" by SETI 'experts' and astronomers.

What makes me suspicious is that Seth ("Pant pooper if its Aliens") Shostak went around telling everyone that is was "highly probable -though I've seen none of the data" that this was terrestrial interference. Not seen any of the data but then again it will NEVER be aliens because if it was Shostak would have to hide under his bed. What a man to be involved in SETI -a man who is terrified of FINDING ETI!

This is why SETI should be handled by the people who can finance it as well as handle the possibility that alien life might exist (see any one of my books regarding this). A cluster of mini broadcaster-receiver satellites aliong the lines of Starlink sent off in different directions in the solar system might achieve more than Earth based facilities which, they keep jumping up and telling us, cannot tell the difference between someone warming up a cup of coffee in a microwave oven and a possible etra terrestrial signal.

Slash the SETI budget and the free mealers and get people who are willing to look and do more than sit on their asses.

At the time that the US Department of Defence release UFO photos (a Batman balloon) and talk about possible extraterrestrial threats you have to wonder what game people are playing.  Because Ufology and everyone else is being played.

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The $100 million Breakthrough Listen project is scanning the heavens for possible signals from alien civilizations.

News travels fast — at the lickety-split speed of light, potentially. Back in December, great attention was paid to a report that a mysterious radio signal appeared to have come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.

Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years from us, is known to host two planets. One of those two worlds, Proxima b, is slightly more massive than Earth and might be capable of supporting life as we know it.

The Breakthrough Listen project, part of the Breakthrough Initiatives group, made the recent detection using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, dubbing the signal BLC1 for "Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1."

Breakthrough Initiatives is backed by Yuri Milner, a science and technology investor and philanthropist who founded the organization. Its Breakthrough Listen activity is a $100 million program of astronomical observations and analysis, the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the search for evidence of technological civilizations in the universe.

Space.com recently talked with Breakthrough Initiatives executive director Simon Peter "Pete" Worden about BLC1 and the search for alien "technosignatures" more generally; the protocols for announcing an ET detection; and the latest about the prospects for life on Venus, another study effort being undertaken by Breakthrough Initiatives.

Spoiler alert: Don't be heartbroken in learning how tough "radio-waving" between civilizations truly is!

Mysteries of Portlock Alaska -Crazed Serial Killer on 20 Year Spree or....Bigfoot?

 From KinyRadio https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news-of-the-north/mysteries-of-portlock-alaska-and-the-abandonment-of-the-small-town-in-the-1900s/

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 10:56pm

Mysteries of Portlock Alaska and the Abandonment of the Small Town in the 1900s

What is left of Portlock. Image courtesy of Extreme Expeditions Northwest LLC via YouTube.

Juneau, AK (KINY) - For Halloween, we decided to reach out to a local historian and adventurer to see if there were any unsolved mysteries in Alaska that would fit the spooky mood of the holiday.

He came back to us with a collection of research on strange happenings in the town of Portlock that is south of Homer. These stories point to a large hairy beast, smaller hairy devils that travel in packs, a wailing spirit that wandered the wilderness, and many deaths that were hard to explain.

Brian Weed is the co-founder of a group called Juneau's Hidden History that primarily keeps track of things through their Facebook page. He has traveled all over Juneau and many other Alaskan towns in search of natural history and stories. His group plans frequent hikes in the area to places that have some sort of story to tell or just to see the natural beauty of the state.

Weed started the story with a peculiar death in the 1930s.

"A logger was out working and something or someone hit him over the head with a huge piece of logging equipment, something that one man couldn't have lifted. When they found his body, there was blood on the equipment and there was no way that one person could have done it. He was a good ten feet from the logging equipment, so it's not like he slipped, fell, and hit his head. It looked more like someone picked it up and bonked him over the head."

There are lots of accounts of creatures being seen in the area.

"The local Natives started talking about a creature, a hairy Big Foot type Yeti monster and it was called the Nantiinaq or big hairy creature as it was called. At that same time, the villagers talked about seeing a spirit of a woman dressed in black clothes that would come out on the cliffs above town. They described her dress as being so long that she would have to drag it. She had a very white face and would scream and moan. The villagers would hear something and then she would disappear back into the cliff face."

In the 1920s, a man by the name of Albert Petka supposedly scared off the hairy creature with his dogs, but not before receiving a fatal blow to the chest. According to the stories, Petka survived to explain what happened, but died to his wounds soon after. There are also reports of prospectors and hunters going missing frequently to the point that it became commonplace. Their bodies were allegedly found in a creek as if their limbs had been ripped apart. A school teacher in the 1970s even talked about growing up in Portlock and also told stories of people being afraid of what could be lurking in the night.

Weed considered himself a skeptic and explained what the Nantiinaq could have been mistaken for.

"Maybe they were seeing an extremely large bear in the area. From a distance of say a hundred feet, your brain has never seen a bear that big, so you put together an idea of what you think you saw. If the bear is standing up say in the 10 to 12-foot range, it may be the biggest bear you've ever seen and so you're brain may not put together that that's a bear. Maybe you're seeing it from a strange angle or it's too close to trees so you can't see its whole shape."

Regardless of his skepticism, there is something uncanny about several groups of people being fearful of this monster.

"It's definitely an interesting story, but people swear by this. For the locals that grew up in the area, this thing has apparently existed for hundreds of years. There was a small village site at Portlock before it was founded and those people had originally moved away."

"When the 1930s incidents started to happen most of the Russian Aleuts actually moved out of town for a year. The people running the cannery basically begged their workers to come back and they set up armed guards for a short period of time, trying to get their workers back in town."

Monster or no, people abandoned Portlock en masse.

"That we can establish as the facts. Those people did leave the town. We know when the town and post office shut down. We know that there are reported murders in the area. They called them murders, but they also included people that just went lost in those reports."

"We're not talking about a dozen people. We're talking like three dozen people. If we have a serial killer in the area at the time, they took out a lot of people in the course of say 20 years."

Weed told us that he hopes to visit Portlock to do some exploring.

"I'm hoping to camp 3 or 4 days in the area and maybe set up some cameras just for kicks. I'm not trying to do like a Ghost Hunter special or anything, but I would like to see if there are some big brown bears in the area and what might have been seen that would cause people to be spooked."

He then explained how Juneau's Hidden History focuses mostly on things that are inherently true.

"Our group has always been about telling the truth and seeing what we actually see, taking pictures of stuff. Do we believe in ghosts, miners creeping around in tunnels, absolutely not. We've seen a few things that we couldn't explain at the time, but later as we investigated it was, 'Oh these rocks slid because of this ice or the timber decided to finally break because it was all rotten.' Do we think something touched it at the time? No."

The group has many items they have collected over the years, including uncommon maps that they were given to by collectors. Those items were then scanned at a high resolution and shared with the public. Weed has also pitched a television show to the Travel Channel that aired a pilot last April with hopes that they can be picked up in the spring of next year. He says that shows that take place in Alaska often do not show true Alaska and that they hope to change that with their honest depiction of exploring the state.

There is also this video -skip to 10 mins 41 secs in for Portlock account:

CE3K/AE Study Project Report No. 001: 1973 Eupora (Mississippi) Multi-Witness UFO Landing Event

 

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1973 –Year of the “Global UFO Wave” 

1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids” 

1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim 

1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. 

This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology. 

1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account. 

Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group. 

Reports now probably lost to history. 

1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. 

Nothing has changed.

The CIA and UFOs: Inside the Release of the CIA’s UFO Records

The Ghost Stories

 The ghost stpory posts all come from Some Things Strange & Sinister -available to buy :

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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Beyond UFO Contact -Aliens from Mind, Time and Space

 

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

If There Are Serious Publishers Out There...They Are Hiding!

  The truth of the matter is that distributors block you and shops do likewise if you are a self publisher. I know because I have tried since 2009.

Online stores are nothing more than show and I say that after opening one in 2009 and there are currently 169 books covering 17 pages.

These are comics of various genres. Graphic novels of various genres and comic albums (48-100pp) on various genres.

There are the World Mystery Books (4 of them covering UFOs, cryptozoology, ghosts and more).

There is the Red Paper: Canids that lomng time naturalists have called "an incredible wildlife document" and "Explosive!" not to mention the album finally explaining what the Girt Dog of Innerdale (a cryptozoological mystery) was. There was also the look at Spring Heeled Jack and as detailed as you could want.

A quartet of books looking at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs and specifically encounters with "aliens" -good review from the Centre for UFO Studies and others.

All the text books are fully illustrated have rare and 'lost' photographs and everything is fully referenced.

I asked someone to count up how many views of posts relating to these books there had been up to 2019 on this and all the other blogs, Twitter, Pinterest and so on. 3.24 million. But the books do not sell and they are all printed in the region they are ordered from so there isn't even a concern about international postage -postage is local.

Comic shops will not stock the comics unless they are on "free trial" and kept off the books and the monopoly distributor in the UK does not find out. In other words it is what we used to call a "dead shop".

Regarding books the same applies but most bookstortes still left are "Remnant bookstores" selling off old stock. Those that do buy in new stock belong to chains and therefore will only take what head office says they can. And guess what? Head office only buys from distributors. Another "closed shop".

From the 1980s to the 1990s I submitted the same manuscripts to UK publishers. All rejected BECAUSE the persons reviewing the Ms for publishers were established UFO authors and, of course, that meant they were going to block anyone threatening their money-making monopoly (I have two of the "reader reviews" the publishers sent me so I know who put the boot in -they also used a large chunk of my data as their own later).

So when people ask whether I have tried a paying publisher my response is "Yes but as long as they employ reviewers with vested interests no outsider will have work in print" (just check the UKs UFO books output for the last 20 years to see what I mean).

Considering that we appear to be in a new age of illiteracy and where only fake sensationalist books are published and sold serious and factual writers will not get a look in.

Hey, if there is a serious, established publisher out there I'll send you copies of books. Just get in touch.

I have gone past the stage where decades of work is thrown away for a few pennies. I need to live and pay bills the same as everyone else.

In March all of the World Mystery and UFO books will be deleted from the store.

Books To Be Withdrawn Notice

 I am going to be withdrawing all of the UFO and world mystery books unless I get some sense out of this. I just sold £70.00 worth of books.

I just checked my sales and I know Lulu and the printer takes a cut but what I am seeing makes keeping my books on sale pointless.

I sold two copies of Beyond UFO Contact @£20 each (£40.00) -I make £4.02??

Encounters with Extraterrestrial Entities? I sold one at £20 but get £0.96

Two copies of the AOP Journal @£5.00 I make £1.90.

So from £70.00 worth of sales I get £6.92??

I'm basically giving away the books!

I've been ripped off enough in the past and 2021 is when it stops but I have to "honour" the sales first.

No one.

posted on the CE3K blog

At 0330 hrs I sat looking at the CE3K/AE files as well as files containing more of my 40+ years of research and asked myself, seriously: "Would anyone be the poorer is all of this paper was just burnt?"

I have tried, repeatedly ad nauseum, to get people to seriously look at the UFO data or data of "strange creatures".  You see there are thousands of reports in the CE3K/AE files and I am trying to add to them since many hundreds of reports are simply newspaper clippings and no Ufologist ever investigated them in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s because it was easier to accept them than do real work.

This is why Ufology never was and never will be a science of anything. It has become entertainment turning over and over the same stories and same false conspiracies. What has it done with its "Millions of credible UFO reports"? Probably 95% of which can be dismissed.  Where are all the analysis results?  

Why in just three days of collecting thousands of reports each on a slip of paper (no computers back then) could I categorise two different phenomena as well as a burgeoning file of fake, hoax and misidentified reports that Ufologists KNEW were such back in the 1950s but continue to cite as evidence in 2021?

I sat down and studied CE3K/AE reports and studied psychology, medical conditions and read books by authors in the field that are very pertinent to cryptozoology, UFOlogy as well as the paranormal. Strange, weird and 'unexplainable' reports began to be not so strange nor unexplainable.

Back in 1983, when the several hundred pages final UFO Report was offered to top Ufologists they all rejected the offers. NBot willing to read anything (even fully referenced) that might challenge their positions and the lucrative TV or magazine deals. Ditto the United States where "We cannot accept the report as you are not a member" was the standard get lost.  Unlike Hopkins and Jacobs I was putting the work up for peer review. THAT is how science works.

My books on CE3K/AE cases are there for peer review.

As I get older I sereiously ask what the point of all the work is. Vallee is the "elder statesman of Ufology" yet his books and work have included known false data since day 1. Ted Phillips' Physical Traces catalogue as well as the Webb HUM CAT catalogues contain known hoaxes, misidentifications etc.  Just adding more and more reports to a data base does not make it accurate or worth anything: every report has to be checked and checked again until it can be categorised and added to a data base.

These files of Unidentified Orbital Objects, Astronomers & Astronauts and UFOs, Mysterious Signals from Space and much, much more are sitting here. Once I am kicking up daisies I know all of this will go up in smoke since no one in my family has the slightest interest and it is all "useless clutter".  Let others get hold of it and benefit from my decades of work?  No. 

Face it; no one is interested in commenting here.  No one wants to buy the books or the AOP Journal. If there was genuine interest then I should be doing fine right now instead of posting to myself.

I've asked people to help fund ongoing work and enable me to find a permanent home for the archives. Nothing.

This summer, when the other material stored in a dried place until it can be incinerated are disposed of I will make the decision on the day. No debate I will just take the files out and burn everything.

Who will miss the files? The Reports in them?  Certainly not any of the 10,000 plus blog visitors. No one.

Buckfastleigh and Sheppey Space Ape

 

I was asked whether my four books (deep breath...UFO Contact? Looking at the Evidence for Alien Visitation...Unidentified - Identified: UFO Crashes & Alien Entity Encounters...Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities? and (I really should have gone for shorter, snappier titles!) Beyond UFO Contact: Aliens from Mind, Space and Time) was everything covered now -when it comes to CE3K/AE cases.

Not even by close. The quartet of books re-assesed cases, looked at theories and some explanations which should really prepare any one reading them for a life time of studying these reports.

The AOP Journal has featured some reports but I am looking at three shelves holding reports -some crammed full, The UK alone has 12 folder plu a large "Guide To" covering historical -2020.  The United States has five folders and that is excluding "The Greys" reports. I can't even count how many reports there are.

For the UK there is the ongoing investigation to find out just what was going on in and around Buckfastleigh, Devon in 1978 and trying to get percipients/observers to come forward.  Also, the "Sheppey Space Ape" case that I investigated -this included an RAF radar "uknown" at the same time, same area.

There is a great deal of work nd material never seen but without slaes of books or backing it is all going to be very slow to emerge if at all.

So, no. Not done by half.

Shrug.

 Things changed recently. You don't need to knbow what because you are not interested. However, I will say that in the last two weeks while I've been posting to distract people (if only temporarily) from what is going on in the world I have been receiving 'Thank You' messages.  These include:

"You piece of shit"

"Why don't you give up a **** off!"

It's always nice to be appreciated.

Since 2011 the most comments that I have received have been abusive.  As noted before, I do not get donations or support for this blog so I question whether, if the main comments are abusive, I should even bother.

That's it. Short and sweet and if you are thinking about dropping off any abuse your ISP address (you CANNOT be anonymous despite what you think) will be forwarded with a complaint.

Project 2021-Photographic

 There is one thing that people involved in Ufology or Phenomenon research have forgotten to utilise in their attempts at "getting to the truth".

Firstly, as I noted in the 1980 (Restricted) and later 1983 UFO Report, there are two main phenomena we need to look at. 

1) UNP -Uninvestigated (Scientifically) Natural Phenomenon which has little to do with "Earth Lights" as theorised by some and is unconnected with storm created ball lightning. I have witnessed UNP on several occasions once at a distance of 200+ yards (200+ metres) and once at a ditance of 10 feet (3m) to 200 ft (60m) and in the latter case I was able to closely observe the phenomenon and what I saw tunned me.

2) UFOBs (Unidentified Flying (seemingly constructed craft) OBjects)  No, I have never seen one of these (sadly). Daylight Discs or Nocturanal Lights whether CE1K or CE2K could well be 1) above and "port windows" are not necessarily windows in a craft.  For this reason observations have to be double and triple checked and it is why I concentrate more on CE3K because entities (whether biological/ biomechanical or mechanoid) cannot operate within a natural light phenomenon and we reason, logically, that if entities are seen entering or leaving an object then it must be some form of constructed craft.

Hopefully, if I live through 2021, The UFO Report will answer many questions and this from a report  compiled almost 40 years ago that many Ufologists (including some very well known ones) refused to even consider looking at.

Back in the 1970s Terry Cox, who if I remember correctly, was based in Cornwall, began using infra red photography and we were talking about this at a Trowbridge UFO event in the 1970s.  Before that there was Trevor James Constable using infra red photography to capture images of "Critters".  Then we have the photographs from Cluj, Romania reported on by Florin Gheorghita (see Flying Saucer Review vol. 15, no. 6, 1969 as well as UFOs From Behind the Iron Curtain by Hobana and Weverbergh). Today, photography and different processes are open to all interested in using them.

Above: from Cluj

At its peak of activity there were said to have been several thousand photos taken of UFOs by Bob Strong and Arthur Shuttlewood had his own record breaking number -none were properly analysed and one has to ask where all of these photographic images went? Again, Flying Saucer Review discused some Warminster photographs (vol. 16 no. 4, 1970) but the editors and writers over the years either screamed "authentic!" or "Fraud!" or even went back and forth on their arguments. Unfortunately, Warminster had a major problem and that was the fact that too many people were trying to out-do each other to get into Shuttlewood's "inner circle" (and Shuttlewood was not a hoaxer but firmly believed what he reported).

Above: "Critters"

One might ask why no group -I believe that there is still a group looking at Warminster and its UFO history- has set up cameras around Cradle Hill to see what goes on when no one is there? Trail or Game cam with date/time tamp might be useful and with the right SD card could be placed out on Mondays and collected on a Sunday and cards checked before they are placed out again. This could be supplimented by people with adequate photographic gear to go out on a "sky watch"  but just take IR or Ultra Violet photographs every few minutes. Boring, yes. May yield no results, yes. But, if something wa recorded and those photographs could be analyzed properly then that might yield important data.

"I wish I could but I'm in Yorkshire" -well, you can do the same type of thing where ever you are and if you are in current lockdown and have a garden (even if you are in a flat (apartment) but have a clear view of the sky from your windows or balcony you can take part) then try this yourself. Just make sure you can get data on the weather/temperature each time you put out cameras and all the necessary technical info.

When I first started seeing "orb" photos appearing and it became a craze (rather as "rods" did later on) I took my digital camera and found out how easy it was to photograph "orbs" and one photo contained (I counted them) 150 "orbs".

So why shouldn't anyone do what I did but do so looking at UFOs/critters or whatever you want to call the things shown in these photos?

A field of orbs! (in my kitchen no less)

Just because you are not a doctor, professor or possess any other university qualifications does not mean you are excluded from science projects and in recent years the term Citizen Scientist has cropped up in a lot more research because before universities and doctorate it was the ordinary man and woman who became curious and started noting things down and from there the "paid professionals" took the data and used it in their scientific fields.

If we want more established scientific people to look at UFOs (whichever) more seriously then the best way to do so is to slap a file of photographs with analyses down in front of them and say; "There. Chew on it."

UK, USA, Canada, Australia, France, India -where ever you are you can try this.

My guess is that very few if any will. And that would be a great pity.

Chris Marx on Skinwalker Ranch, AAWSAP and Possible Human Experimentation

Erica Lukes on The Skinwalker Ranch and The Hessdalen Lights

New Year's Words on Ufology: Standards, Ethics or Fantasy Social Clubs?

 

 

I began getting involved with UFO research when I was still at school in 1973 (my father bragged that it was “a phase he’ll get out of soon enough”). I set up the Bristol UFO Group (BUFOG) in 1975/76 and by around 1977 I had joined the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f. 1952) which most people in Ufology thought had vanished in the 1960s!I thought that the BFSB would have really slick investigation procedures compared to what I had thought up for BUFOG.

 

I was wrong.

 

The only person who had any investigation interest was Graham F. N. Knewstub who had, incidentally, produced the first analysis and breakdown of flying saucer/UFO reports in 1955 (Preliminary Analysis of Data Concerning Flying Saucers, BFSB Technical Report No. 1, 1955). 

 

On my first investigation with Graham we went to Yate where parents had reported that their two daughters, returning home as it was getting dark, had panicked and began beating on the front door as a large, bright discoid object came down low over the street and their house. Within half an hour I had drawn the house as well as the features either side of it and included an illustration of the object over the house –which the girls confirmed was in scale. I then drew a quick area map. Later Graham poured over the notes and illustrations and told me that he had not seen anyone complete such a full amount of preliminary work on a report before. He was pleased and I just pointed out that I thought that it was important to get as much information as possible “in case” the girl decided that they no longer wanted to talk to investigators.  Graham smiled and chuckled and told me; “I really do not think that you need me tagging along!”

 

What was the “usual investigation” method? Well, if someone offered to talk to a witness it normally entailed them relating their pet theories on UFOs, chatting about Adamski and so on –before even hearing what the witness had to say! I expressed my concerns to Graham who was in charge of investigation and research and he said “It does need young blood. I’ll talk to the Committee.” A week later I was told that I was now head of research and investigation. I also found out that there were no research projects -to be fair, Graham at that point was in his 60s and had faced an upward struggle to get anything much done in a group whose founder, Captain (Field Rank) Edward Plunkett was a true devotee of George Adamski. I think Graham thought I might have more luck.

 

So, I put forward my plans: a full study of all the reports we (BFSB) had to carry out another analysis. Problems presented themselves. Firstly, a lot of “material” was in a safety deposit box in a bank somewhere and had been there since Albert K. Bender had hi infamous Men In Black encounter (possibly a breakdown) in the early 1950s and warned the BFSB that “The Men In Black are coming your way!”  So, in 1977, I asked; “What happened?” at which point Franklyn Davin-Wilson (behind Capt. Plunkett) rolled his eyes as said Captain responded; “Nothing….yet” and he was not joking when he told me “but we are still alert and waiting!”

 

Which meant that I could not get my hands on the “must never be described” material was in the safety box. Graham then mentioned that there were the files “in the boxes in my attic” and that got a mile but definite glaring look from Capt. Plunkett who said “We’ll need to discuss that at the Committee meeting next week.” Graham was later very apologetic as he explained that he wanted to turn over the files but that the Committee had decided that they must remain private and not even the head of research and investigation could see them.

 

Just what good were all of those reports to anyone gathering dust in boxes? Later, someone (Pat O’Brien) who totally debunked UFOs as being caused by nuclear reactors and fumbled up investigations so bad that he was persuaded to “let me tag along” was appointed new head of investigation and research. After more than 100 witnesses saw a UFO at the Chepstow Race Course I accompanied O’Brien and while he told everyone that it was an helicopter or a star I talked to witnesses and met one of Mrs Roestenberg’s (1950s CE3K incident) son’s who was in charge of the catering staff.  O’Brien had no idea who Mrs Roestenberg was and when someone shouted “It’ back!” I watched with around 150 other as a triangular coloured object moved around the sky (I had binoculars) and I told O’Brien what the note while I tried to estimate size and distance, etc.  Not a word. I turned and he was looking in the other direction and would not, over the 30 minutes period look in the direction of the object(s). When I explained this to Graham he simply nodded and told me nothing could be done as O’Brien had been known to the Plunkett’s since he was a youngster.

 

To “avoid friction” I was appointed head of the new BFSB publication UFO News Bulletin and the name change from Flying Saucer News (last published c. 1960) was a bit awkward as the BFSB continually referred to any UFO as a “flying saucer” which was a term well out of fashion by the 1970s.I had to do all the work myself as no one wanted to contribute and then hand in the finished publication to be printed. As the featured entity report in one issue was not involved with a flying saucer and was not a blond haired, blue eyed Venusian the cover was removed. So I did a new cover. Rejected and in the end the front cover was simply the BFSB logo enlarged. I quit as editor but with O’Brien taking over I&R and then the magazine the BFSB knew they were a force to be reckoned with. Except O’Brien never produced a single issue but drove the group into the ground. From 1977 onward I had only ever seen Capt. Plunkett’ son, Denis, once and then he was socialising and had no interest in anything to do with the group.

 

I wanted to check my notes on the Chepstow case and was told “Oh, they’re missing somewhere but it was only a helicopter.” Other reports I had completed were also “missing” and this meant, I was told, that the reports had been dumped somewhere. I quit.

 

I set up UFO International (UFOI) and recruited investigators including Dot Street and Brenda Butler (the Rendlesham Forest investigators who told me about the incident then went straight to Jenny Randles to publicise it even though I told them I would have three investigators join then within the week), Mr Parsons who investigated the Oulton Marsh CE3K and others. Unfortunately, Peter Tate was also involved and he and even got the UFOI threatened with legal action after publishing a totally defamatory statement while I was in Germany (forging my signature). Tate had also destroyed CE3K case reports and one day I found note paper with the heading Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network –just Google “APEN”.  Eventually I resigned because the group was at each other throats as Tate tried to “smooth things over”.

 

I moved on and concentrated on my BUFORA work and that included me as the only investigator during a 1977/1978 UFO flap –as it happens the UK APRO investigator Gary Green lived just up the road from me so helped out on a couple of cases. Of course, this ended with BUFORA “losing” 150 full reports.

 

I no longer wanted to be associated with Ufology so continue my work with the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau from 1977 onward and by 1980 had achieved far more than when working within groups.

 

We hear and read it almost weekly. The Ufologists claiming “Many thousands of people have reported good quality sighting of unearthly objects” so ask yourself; what happens to these reports (apart from being used as TV fodder)? When was the last time you saw a survey and analysis of UFO sighting reports? The last one I know of was compiled by J Bernard Delair for Contact UK in the early 1980s and my last study was in the 1980. The internet/You Tube age ha made every satellite or high flying bird flock reflecting sunlight an ‘extra terrestrial craft’ or ‘fleet of UFOs’ and even obvious, clearly seen balloons and aircraft are labelled as “unidentified” so any analysis now is impossible. UFO groups routinely fake or deliberately misidentify objects to be “extra terrestrial” (in the main to “outdo” a rival group) and paranormal and UFO blogs feature more faked cases each year –I know; I have chased after those reports. Ufologists have been hoaxing other Ufologists since 1947 and just letting genuine reports fade away in time –Eupora, 1973, Reeves, 1965 and so on). You Tube…about as honest as a politician named Johnson.

 

A big problem is that it became a bit of a craze to start calling “cover-up” in Ufology and this started in the United States and then the UK when what should have been happening was UFO groups carrying out full investigations and reaching conclusions based on evidence and then turning copies over to official bodies who would have access to technical and scientific personnel who could go even further. Then the evidence is out there in the public eye as well as being studied by bodies with more funding. Yes, of course bodies such as the US Air Force, et al would use the UFO subject to hide experimental test aircraft and so on. That is what they do because everyone expects their respective armed forces to be capable of defending them but not letting a potential enemy “know what we got”. 

 

1947-2020 and hat ha Ufology accomplished? Jacques Vallee has become a Saint in Ufology “because of his work and standing” and yet he has included faked accounts, explained reports and wore into his melting pot of New Age junk. I once held Vallee up as an example of a scientist carrying out meticulous work on UFOs…until I carried out an even cursory look at his data. Ortotheny, The Mars Cycle, The Wednesday Evening Cycle, Ley Lines and many, many other totally crackpot theories that should have been looked at and then consigned to the “Irrelevant” file were discussed and argued about for decades –some still are today. Provide people with evidence that certain reports were faked or explained and…they ignore it because it HAS to be unsolved. The X-Files, Dark Skies and Dr Who are not documentary series and we do not have a terrestrial space force engaged in Star War style conflict in the skies above us.  Fantasy is the new fact.

 

Budd Hopkins stacked the deck when it came to evidence, he knew one alleged abductee was conning him but he carried on totally un-peer reviewed. David Jacobs has gotten totally out of control in his work and claims as well as personal scandal and John Mack followed his own line of work. John Carpenter sold 140 of his abductee files to John Bigelow breaching any pretence of a code of ethics or witness confidentiality he and MUFON claimed. Oh…did I mention Hopkins, Mack and Jacobs were receiving money from Bigelow and no one has any idea what they forwarded because Ufology has no openness or ethics code.  And, of course, MUFON sold all of its UFO report files to Bigelow and investigators had no idea the reports they were investigating were going to Bigelow -remember the part of the UFO report form that asks you if you want your personal info to be confidential? Means nothing.

 https://users.aalto.fi/~saarit2/mindcontrol/hambone/bigelow.html

http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-carpenter-affair-for-record.html

https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-mufon-2018-john-ventre-alien-extraterrestrial-905060

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3azpj9/head-of-major-ufo-organization-arrested-on-child-solicitation-charges

So, while this is going on MUFON is a shining example of Ufology being dead in the water though most groups avoid the racism, sexism and child abuse scandal that MUFON is bogged down in but will not do anything actively about (it is a big right wing boys club –even those who left MUFON and appear in video interviews proudly display the front cover of a Donald Trump book behind them; I’ve spotted this in three such videos).

 

Politics has no place in Ufology. And you should NOT believe in Ufology but follow the evidence which is all that matters. 

 

Do not be conned on the cattle mutilation “phenomenon” –it is NOT UFO (ET) related.

Do not be conned into the Aurora or Roswell or any of the 160 other alleged UFO crashes –never happened.

Do not be fooled into believing an (ET) UFO crashed on a Welsh mountain (whichever crash) –it did not happen.

Do not be fooled into believing that MILLIONS are abducted every year –fake. Concentrate on the real cases.

Do not believe that an extra terrestrial craft crash landed in Rendlesham Forest. It never did.

Do not believe that there is a “British Skinwalker Ranch” because, all the evidence now shows that most of what went on at Skinwalker was caused by human agencies –check out The Black Vault” or Erica Lukes You Tube channels if you want the truth.

 

Are you in this to be part of a fan club or because you want to get to the truth?  I do not believe that I am the only person who has been studying CE3K –Alien Entity reports since 1975 (and not betraying witnesses confidential info) so where is the work to how this? My four books on the subject are meant to be there for peer review –fully referenced. No one will publish a 300-500+ paper on the subject so I have to self publish (and none of them has made me any money covering even .5% of what I have spent on the work in 4 decades).

 

2021 can either be a new starting point and old cases re-opened and followed up as “cold cases” (because many CE3Ks were never investigated) and results published or….Ufology can just die a death as a cranky fringe subject.

 

Only Ufologists can decide.