Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Each report has to be treated individually not as part of a clump of reports
In my It's Been Over Three Years post it appears that I was not clear enough.
I think that the data shows that Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity cases are rare. They may total (depending on what your criteria for acceptance are) just a couple of hundred reports and many have not been investigated to any degree.
I use the term Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) as I believe the plethora of encounter types put forward are confusing things. If you are going to use the 4th, 5th or whichever to indicate a suspected psychological case then just state "CE3K -Psychological". The vast majority of alleged "generational alien abductions" and "Greys" accounts can be dismissed. Hopkins and Jacobs et al just lost the plot and Jacobs in particular has flown into nonsensical fantasy.
Witnesses in UFO landings who saw entities only briefly were put under hypnosis to see "whether anything else happened thatthey had forgotten" and from there we went into the Greys and generational abductions and even pre-birth abductions and past lives abductions. No one within Ufology seriously questioned this.
In fact the utter ignorance of self claimed "veteran Ufologists" who claim to have been investigating for "thirty plus years" is amazing. Refer to CE3Ks and you hear "Well, people reporting those little critters" and that followed by "Whatever that's meant to be about" -moronic. You "believe" these are alien (or the current favourite for which there is absolutely no scientific data) or"other dimensional" and "multiversal" -good for sci fi and comic books or movies but really. The point is just what or whom do these "seasoned veterans" actually think are piloting their extra terrestrial craft?
It is almost as though they get their Ufological training from trash TV documentaries, You Tube and the old Weekly World News. The very first quesation that they should be asking themselves is; "If these are extra terrestrial craft -what is controlling/piloting them?" That was the very first question I asked as a smooth-faced newbie in 1973. Sadly, all I really got was the George Adamski and other contactee "space brothers" crap and at the time I asked outright why, if these space brothers were here to stop us having a nuclear war and destroying ourselves why the bloody hell were they just whizzing around the planet picking up some of the most ridiculous and crooked people around?
If you see a Boeing 747 or a military jet you KNOW that it is being piloted. That makes logical sense. So is "lard on the brain" stopping Ufologists realising the same about their claimed "extraterrestrial craft"? Come on. After 30-35 years they sit on their asses reading UFO books and magazines and all the fake documents put out there but skirt past anything looking at CE3K?
I once watched a You Tube video in which an ex cop turned Ufologist was talking about his crack team of investigators, showing off files and maps and do you know what had occupied their timeas crack MUFON investigators for several months? A small point of light high in the sky that had moved erratically before vanishing -"only a pinpoint of light but it is significant". How? Do you know how much space junk there is up there and do you realise that not every satellite put into orbit is officially listed so you can check what time it passes overhead?
Jacques Vallee, Ted Phillips and many others have much lauded 'data bases' but when you look atwhat they have gathered and listed as actual factual events but that were known as hoaxes or explained in the 1960s you notice that thpose data bases are pointless. When you see them referring to accounts from newspapers as the source because no one in 30, 40 or 55 years has actually investigated the cases then you realise Ufology has nothing. When you tick off one known hoax from a supposedly "scientific catalogue" it is bad enough but 10? 20? that is just a new form of collecting so that you can brag how many reports you have.
If you look into as many cases as possible and get as much data as you can (which I have since 1974) then you realise that many accounts are newspaper, Ufological or other hoaxes and many are misidentifications -one landed UFO with an occupant carrying outrepairs on it during the False French UFO Wave of 1954 turned out to be a broken down bus -known locally and later picked up on by others but that case is still cited today -inbcluding by Jacques Vallee.
What I meant in that post was this: not "many hundreds" and certainly not "many thousands" of 'credible CE3Ks but maybe 150-200 that need more looking into. Certainly NOT "millions of humans abducted by aliens".
Each report has to be treated individually not as part of a clump of reports.
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
It's Been over Three Years....
Apparently, I did not realise this until I checked the date, over three years ago I asked any blog reader (and there are a lot of you) who had read or knew of a report or article about someone who had encountered a UFO and entities as a one off experience to get in touch.
Nothing.
In fact, I know from having spoken to a couple people that when reporting such incidents thaey were told that they were probably lifelong abductees. They pointed out that they were not and that this was a one off incident. They were told again that they WERE lifelong abductees because all ofvtheresaearch pointed to this in "every" such incident even if only a landed UFO and entities seen but no interaction. They were given the option of being put in touch with a "specialist abductees group" or their report could not be looked into.
This is exactly what I predicted would happen well over 20 years ago in articles and posts and later in my books. There are many credible accounts of UFO/entity encounters from 1950 up until the time everyone went "grey abductions" crazy. Look at Euporia, Mississippi in 1973 where racial prejudice reared its ugly head; local investigators chasing up any and every UFO incident but refusing to look at a multi witness incident on a U.S. Highway -because those witnesses were "black" -MUFON still refuses to even consider the case.
Imagine that you genuinely see a strange craft land and entities emerge -there is no interacytion but after a couple of minutes the entities re-enter the object and it leaves. You report it and you are told you were abducted. A dashboard clock may well tell you that you can account for every minute but as David Jacobs stated in his UFO evangelical style -"You saw a UFO and it vanished: YOU WERE ABDUCTED!" no question about it. Are you seriously going to have to go through all the messing around and state you were abducted just to get somone to take yourreport seriously....or do you back away and keep quiet?
What surprised me, because you are never told this but have to dig to find out, is that many percipients or witnesses in these events would never have been known and we would know nothing about the Betty & Barney Hill, the Liberty, Kentucky incident or many others if it had not been for ufologists exposing these people to the press or betraying confidences for their own gain.
Think about that. The Betty and Barney Hill account and all the extra evidence surrounding it -taken to the grave or a family secret. The 1976 Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas abduction event -unknown and taken to the grave (I believe Stafford was still alive as of 2020). Even the Walton case would not be known had it not been for the actions of Ufologists at the time.
In fact, after writing my last book dealing with the subject, Beyond UFO Contact: Aliens from Mind, Time & Space (2020), I sat down and looked at the reports, both abductions and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, from 1950-1995 and realised that at a rough count over 50 we would not know about if Ufologists had not broken confidential agreements with those involved. The figure is probably higher and it is a sad fact that many persons reporting such events were never even spoken to by investigators after 30 years and when some were those self righteous lazy clod-hoppers had the audacity to chastise reporters and newspapers for bad reporting! Absolutely no "If an investigator had gotten his lazy ass out of a chair and bothered we would not have been quoting incorrect facts for over thirty years" oh no. Everyone's fault but their own. So after 40, 50 and 60+ years many of those percipients are no longer with us. We've lost testimony. Eupora would today be classed as a major incident but decades on not one witness (that is still alive) has been spoken to.
Here is another fact worth considering; I know of several incidents where news got out and reached ufologists and the shameful behaviour of those 'truth seekers' made the witnesses withdraw and we lost testimony -one 'investigator' told me that the witness to a landing was obviously a "UFOnut" because he claimed "something" left the landed objkect. In another series ofg events at a quarry in the UK ufologists let the localpress and media know what was going on -this led to witnesses seeing chuckling TV presenters and reporters recounting their "tales". One witness to a landing refused outright to speak and workers at the quarry had told the BBC that if their mocking reporter returned he would be sent for a flight over the edge ofthe quarry.
There are cases in which someone hides, observes a landing and an entity gets out and after a minute or so re-enters the object which takes off but they are no longer in hiding but standing out in the open and a brief encounter was obviously far more involved and years later this was indicated, however, the secret went with them to the grave. M. Mass at Valensole, France was a similar case. When you realise that a straight forward narrative that should go from A to E does so but misses out B, C and D, you can ask why but the person involved will either say they were 'mistaken' or "No. I am never going to say what else happened".
How many witnesses/percipients have encountered something but seeing all the TV and You Tube trash decided that they are "not getting involved in that crap!" or just accepted it as Bob Taylor did after his encounter at Livingstone as "It happened. You get on with your life"? This is a line repeated by a number of percipients whose lives were shattered by an encounter but afterwards (in some cases suffering physical and mental trauma) decide that it happened and they have to get on with their lives. How many have decided this that we do not know about because fiction has taken over from fact or because they do not want to be known as "another one of those crazy UFO abductees" (even if they aren't?
Hopkins and Jacobs along with others has made it almost impossible for someone to report a brief encounter and with MUFON there is the fear that personal details (supposedly confidential) might be sold on?
I am not a debunker and never have been. I am a sceptic and I look at the evidence and assess cases by evidence or by making a decision as to how credible someone is. That should be clear from my books. Until I actually encounter an alien spacecraft I cannot state that aliens are landing on Earth. Even going by what percipients state I cannot say that but if everything points to them not lying and there is back-up evidence such as unconnected observers, etc all I can state is that they seem genuine so it is then up to readers to decide extraterrestrial or not.
But we need the testimony because it cannot all be dismissed by genuine debunkers who insist every single observer is "mistaken" or "suffering an altered state" (which they clearly do not understand) and if the accounts are genuine....
The Story Behind The McPherson Tape
Publishing and if you have been considering buying one of my books...act fast!
In case you are wondering (I know you are not but I am trying to be polite) what happened to the book price rises here is the story.
I am disputing my right to withdraw my books from sale in the United States because I get hit hard by U.S. taxes on sales which means I make back around $1 on a book sold. Add the fluctuating exchange rate (and my print on demand firms goes for the time advantageous for them to pay me) and books of 300+ pages, fully illustrated and which took me years to write are going for free. The books were supposedly my "living" and I am not making any "living" at the moment.
At £20 a book that was cheap so if I am unable to block the U. S. as a market (not something I would normally do) the prices have to increase. I have no choice because I am just giving everything away and no publisher is willing to take on books of this type in the UK because they do not understand them. Seriously.
The above was from August and a lot has been going on since. Apparently, as the author and publisher and owner of all rights to my books I cannot remove them from sale in the United States. THAT is not what the PODpromised with "publishing freedom". For the sale of £80 worth of books I 'earned' £18.00 )just translate that as $).
The POD also hit publishers with new increased printing prices which they say will not affect current books but they will not explain HOW they are going to get the extra money they want and despite asking there is no answer -the likelihood is that it will come from my sales money.
Oh, then they decided that from early October there will be a "handling charge" but have flatly refused to say how much and who is going to pay this charge -again it is suspected that this will come from MY sales which means two things...
1. Withdraw the books
2. Increase the prices to cover both new and as yet unknown charges.
So, until the new details are given in October the books stay at the current prices but after that....
In Pursuit: Things Known and UNKNOWN
Although prices are increasing In Pursuit is currently at it's old price possibly until the beginning of October.
62pp
A4
B&W
£5.00
Fact NOT fiction journal looking at trange creatures and stories from around the world
Contents:-
A "Cold Case" Too Old? The Beast Of Faudiere –Mystery Killer
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods
Cry Werewolf ! and The Curious And Frightening Case Of The Hull Werewolf
On The Scientific 'Need' To Kill A Sasquatch
The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy group has blood on their hands?.
On Gathering Hard Evidence
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle
Photographic Evidence That Dinosaurs Exist
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere
Sunday, 12 September 2021
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously? asks Daniel Lavelle
In June, the US government published a long-awaited report into UFOs. Although the report did not, as many had hoped, admit to the existence of little green men, it did reveal that not only were objects appearing in our skies that the Pentagon – which controls the US military – could not explain, but some clearly pose “a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security”.
The Pentagon also revealed that it has been taking UFOs so seriously that in 2007 it discreetly set up the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which has been gathering data on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) ever since.
The unclassified version of the report (there was also a classified version seen only by US lawmakers) found “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the sightings. But neither did it rule it out. The report offered five typically mundane possible explanations for the UFOs and, crucially, one catch-all “other” bin.
It’s that “other” bin that has arrested the attention of stargazers and conspiracy theorists. If the US military has been quietly and seriously investigating UFOs (or, as the Pentagon would have it, UAPs) since 2007, and if the Pentagon’s official report cannot rule out the existence of extraterrestrials, is it time we looked again at claims of close encounters and the people who have made them?
The US government says some UFOs pose 'a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security'
Enthusiasm for UFOs and ETs has permeated popular culture ever since a US air force balloon crashed near Roswell in 1947. Conspiracy theorists confused the balloon for a UFO; the US government did a lousy job debunking those claims, and they quickly captured the public’s imagination. Fast forward to 1961, when Barney and Betty Hill told the world’s first alien abduction story.
Andrew Abeyta, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, co-authored We Are Not Alone, a study into why some of us want to believe in aliens. Abeyta explains that belief in aliens is akin to religiosity: unfounded beliefs in unfalsifiable ideas, which require a leap of faith. “People have a need to feel like their lives are meaningful, and these beliefs might suggest that there’s something bigger out there; there’s something more important going on,” Abeyta says
I tell Abeyta about an interview I carried out with a young man in Florida. The man, who did not want to be named, described an ambiguous close encounter that took place during his sleep. When I asked him what he preferred the truth to be – a real encounter or merely a vivid dream – the young man said he would prefer it to be true because that would mean he was “special”.
“I can imagine being a protagonist in an alien-abduction story seems pretty meaningful, like a meaningful achievement, an accomplishment,” Abeyta says. That feeling of specialness plays an important role in these stories. “Feeling like your unexplained experience is a result of an alien abduction just seems more exciting and more important than a natural explanation.”
Still, the topic of alien encounters remains sensitive. I discovered just how sensitive when author Whitley Strieber, who some claim was abducted by non-humans in 1985, terminated our call after learning that I had not read his books. In a subsequent email, he wrote: “I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me and attempt to understand what it was. I was turned into ‘alien abductee Whitley Strieber’ by the media. That is not my position.” He added: “You are lost in space when it comes to this subject, my friend – all of you.”
After I got off on the wrong foot with Strieber, though, he did come back and introduce me to highly decorated former US navy cryptologist Matthew Roberts. He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt when fighter jets recorded the infamous “Gimbal” and “Go Fast” videos of unexplained objects off the Florida coast during 2015, which went a long way to prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report.
Now retired from the military, Roberts is unmoved by the debunkers. “These things are picked up by multiple sensors that are sometimes from different manufacturers, so to think that they would all be glitching in the same way at the same time would just be impossible – it just doesn’t happen that way.”
Mick West, a science writer and video game programmer turned conspiracy-theory debunker, offers his own, more down-to-earth explanations for the objects: arguing that mundane things – tech glitches, camera glare, balloons and birds – are more likely than aliens.
However, now even the Pentagon has conceded there’s more to UFOs than that. In its nine-page report it states: “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers and visual observation.” In other words, there was something out there and the images were not technical glitches. I ask Roberts about a theory put forward by West that the Gimbal object was glare caused by a nearby aircraft. “All aircraft – nationally, internationally – have to broadcast who they are. If they’re not broadcasting that, that’s very unusual. Mick West, bless his soul, he has never been in the military,” he says.
Roberts explains that, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, unidentified air tracks escalate very quickly. “It will go to the captain, it will go to the admiral, and they’ll want to know what that is because the thought would immediately be: ‘Is this a commercial airliner? Has it been hijacked?’ We’re not as incompetent as Mick West would have you believe. If something is unidentified, it absolutely has to be identified immediately.”
Despite the debunkers and proliferation of more mundane explanations for UFOs, reports of close encounters have persisted for decades. Terry Lovelace, a retired assistant attorney general in Vermont, USA, and author of Incident at Devil’s Den, kept his abduction to himself for 40 years due to fear of losing his job. He had a close encounter in 1977 while serving in the US air force.
Lovelace, now 67, was on a camping trip in Devil’s Den national park in northern Arkansas with a friend and colleague named Toby when things got strange. They were sitting around a fire, struggling to chat over the din of buzzing crickets and croaking tree frogs before everything went quiet. “That sounds kind of clichéd – out of a movie – but that is exactly what happened to us,” he says.
Three bright lights appeared on the horizon and moved in their direction. When the lights were overhead, they could see that they were emanating from a black triangular prism as wide as two city blocks.
A blue laser beam darted over them, which Lovelace thought was scanning them. When it shut off, they became sleepy. Next thing, he woke and saw Toby peering out of the tent. The triangle was hovering above what appeared to be a dozen children standing in a meadow below them. “What are these kids doing out here in the middle of the night?” said Lovelace.
“They aren’t little kids. Don’t you remember they took us and they hurt us?” Toby answered.
Lovelace says the moment Toby said that, fragmented memories of being inside the UFO flashed in his mind. Years later, hypnosis helped him fill in more blanks and he recalled actually encountering creatures while inside the UFO.
For some, the fact that the Pentagon has finally admitted it cannot explain the behaviour of the objects may have been a surprise but, for PC Alan Godfrey, 73, it merely proves what he already knows.
On a windswept and wet West Yorkshire evening in November 1980, Godfrey was in hot pursuit of a herd of escaped cows in Todmorden’s housing estate. Instead of cows, he stumbled across a giant levitating diamond that would change the course of his life. Godfrey’s close encounter with this UFO went viral worldwide and transformed Todmorden into Britain’s Roswell.
Godfrey, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman born and raised in Oldham, is long retired from the force but still recalls the events of that night when he came face to face with the peculiar object – a diamond-shaped aircraft hovering 5ft off the ground while spinning on its axis.
He just had time to sketch the UFO on his notepad before he was blinded. In his next moment of conscious awareness, he was sitting in his patrol car. The UFO was gone. “I got out of the car, looked at the road surface, and it was like a whirlpool,” he says. The UFO’s rapid revolutions had arranged the dead leaves, twigs and other debris into an autumn-themed spiral.
In the aftermath of his encounter, he had visits from the Ministry of Defence, correspondence from a Russian scientist and interest from the world’s press. He even underwent hypnosis to uncover memories of his abduction.
Godfrey was ridiculed for years – many who claim to have had encounters with UFOs are reluctant to go on the record for fear of the same treatment – but things are changing. High-ranking government officials such as Christopher Mellon, a former US secretary for defence in intelligence, and Luis Elizondo, former director of AATIP, insist that there are aircraft in our skies that don’t obey the known laws of physics. Even Barack Obama has gone on record on the subject, talking to CBS this year: “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
When it comes to abduction stories, sceptics will say these encounters are either hoaxes or accounts of vivid dreams or hallucinations. Christopher French, emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has spent years studying the paranormal and argues that sleep paralysis is a better explanation for many of these stories. “In some cases, you get associated symptoms, and they include a sense of presence; a very strong feeling that there’s something in the room with you,” French says. He adds that sufferers might hallucinate and “see strange lights moving around the room or strange figures or shadow people”.
That doesn’t fit for Godfrey’s story – he was driving and on duty at the time. “I think in Alan Godfrey’s case, he was sleep-deprived; he had been on duty for a long time. The most likely explanation is some kind of hallucinatory experience due to tiredness,” says French. What about the story he told under hypnosis? “The thing with hypnotic regression is that it is one of the best ways known of generating false memories. If you go for hypnotic regression expecting to recover memories of alien abduction, there’s a very good chance that’s what you’ll get.”
But Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defence, is not convinced and thinks that Godfrey is genuine. “He had a lot to potentially lose by coming out with this and yet stuck to his guns.”
Doesn’t a hallucination explain what he saw? “I get that people do have hallucinations, but they tend to be the result of either mental illness or some sort of hallucinogenic substance, and this guy was on duty and was, by all accounts, rational. And so those explanations don’t seem to apply – I’m stumped when it comes to that particular case. Ask yourself: how many times have you been tired and come to the end of a long day? We’ve all been in that situation, and we don’t suddenly construct bizarre narratives about spacecraft and aliens.”
Is it time to start taking these stories more seriously? “I’m not saying that I believe it’s literally true that these are alien spaceships,” says Pope. “But at the very least, these people who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing.
“For everyone who tells you these people are attention seekers after fame and fortune, I would say, ‘What fame? What fortune?’ Who outside the UFO community has heard of Alan Godfrey or Terry Lovelace?”
When expert military witnesses describe the sorts of speeds that are reported, I sit up and take note
Nick Pope
Does Pope think ETs are among us? “I don’t know. I am certain that they are out there, but whether they’re down here or not? I don’t know. I think it’s much more likely that we’re dealing with unmanned probes.”
If not hallucinations, equipment glitches or mistakes, many will say black ops, conducted by the US, China, Russia, or other militaries, are a more plausible explanation than aliens. “I accept that most military personnel won’t have sight of every single black project and, therefore, won’t necessarily know about every secret prototype, aircraft or drone that’s flying,” says Pope. “But the military and government, and the intelligence community have a pretty good idea of roughly where the ceiling is in terms of technology. So, when these expert military witnesses describe the sorts of speeds, accelerations, manoeuvres that are reported with these sorts of incidents, I sit up and take note.”
Whatever one thinks about the veracity of these stories, many of the people who tell them believe they are real, and some suffer from severe mental illness in the aftermath. Chris French says the levels of psychological arousal in people living with PTSD go “through the roof” when they’re asked to retell their stories. “If you do the same thing with the alien abductees, you get the same thing.”
Lovelace’s night in Devil’s Den changed his life and the life of his friend Toby. The US air force got wind of their ordeal and, per military protocol, separated and reassigned them. Lovelace ignored his orders and visited Toby to say goodbye. “Toby was falling apart,” Lovelace says. The two embraced. Toby said: “It happened, didn’t it?” “Yes, my brother, it really happened. You’re not losing your mind,” Lovelace replied.
Lovelace has suffered enormously since that night. “I’ve had 40 years’ of nightmares. I still have a phobia of crossing open ground. I still sleep with a light on and a gun beside my bed.” But he feels vindicated by acknowledgments made by the US government, military personnel and Obama. “I’ve got a long list of people that I’m going to email and say, ‘I told you so.’”
For Godfrey, it’s 40 years too late. He is adamant about what he saw that morning in Todmorden. “I’ve had all sorts: you fell into some sort of trance when you were driving – all that shit. No, it was real. It left debris on the road – my headlights were reflecting off it, as were the blue lights. This was a real incident. I didn’t need the Pentagon to tell me there are things out there. I know what I saw that night was real, nuts and bolts. If I’d got out and thrown a brick at it, it would have gone, ‘Clang!’ It doesn’t change what happened to me and how I was treated back then.”
Saturday, 11 September 2021
Mysteries, Cover-Ups and Fantasies
Let's get a few things straight. I have looked into the paranormal, UFOs and so much more in well over four decades and I have met many, many people who have seen all kinds of things and have lived in forests, woodland and the countryside all of their lives.
Never once in all those decades when people told me what they had encountered did one say "and Bigfoot is really scary". Do you know why that is? It is becsause there is no such thing as Bigfoot or a wildman in the UK. There is absolutely no evidence to support their existence apart from a few people who make claims that to them are real. They are not.
There are many -no one knows how many- people living in forestry and woodland for various reasons and you poke around near their camp at night you might get a rock or stick thrown at you and I have known people who had this happen. There are animals in woods at night. They make noises. A broken off tree branch is not a "wildman/bigfoot" knocking stick: it is a branch that has broken off a tree. Fakery, money-grubbing and much more is at play here. I sent someone a link to a "British bigfoot" video on You Tube and asked what he thought of the "bigfoot structures" shown in them. He thought I was joking until he watched: "Three of those "structures" shown are mine that I made for when I trek around or teach bushcraft. You never know how the weather may change so having shelters at certain points makes sense. Am I Bigfoot then?"
Dogman. Again, never ever heard of any such report in the UK, and they are fairly recent in the U.S.. Cannock Chase has werewolves, UFOs, Dogmen and Bigfoot. Pardon the language but that is pure and utter bull-shit. I know countryside wardens and many others who have studied Cannock Chase over decades for the wildlife. Every night, whatever weather and they keep meticulous notes. What was Cannock Chase known for? The wallabies that lived there and an occasional "big black cat" sighting. That was it.
In Strange & Mysterious Beast I note how I looked into the werewolf claims and found that the group that investigated the sightings not only did not receive werewolf reports but never investigated any and I was told very clearly that it was a joke suggested by a local reporter (confirmed) that then took on a life of its own. Lionel Fanthorpe really pushed this hoax and he was told -again veryu clearly- when he contacted the group that it was all a press hoax "doesn't matter -good story" was his response. Nick Redfern has written on this and, again, I am told he is very aware that this was a hoax.
Bigfoot. There are only two "shaggy men in the twilight" stories I know of and I was told how the "shaggy man" just rose up out of the grass and (according to one witness -a policeman out birdwatching): "Almost made me **** my pants!" Until, that is, in both cases, they realised they had caught a poacher in a gillie-suit who made off pretty quickly.
There have been no big alien abduction events there. In one case a reported large UFO from which entities emerged took place bang smack in front of a hide being used by two naturalists attempting to photograph wildlife at night. The only problem is that they saw nothing and no one and as luck would have it a colleague of theirs was crossing the very spot where all of this was going on and...saw nothing.
Cannock Chase is a place where you might see wildlife but not dogman or bigfoot and the odd unusual light but it is certainly no "UFO portal" or in any way the"equivalent of Skinwalker ranch",
These things only really emerged when the American TV shows like Finding Bigfoot, Monster Quest and many others hit UK TV or You Tube. Just like every house now having a "portal to hell" or "demon in residence" -up until social media and trash TV ghosts were always some unobtrusive old lady or beloved family member walking though a room or appearing near a bed. Even poltergeist phenomenon was explained but it has jumped from science to fantasy -"sexier" and easier for the gullible to swallow (oh, all those old unobtrusive ghosts were in fact "demonic forces" but no one knew). And, every hauntinh has a "little girl who tragically died here" and in one week of checking out ghost hunt shows on You Tube I found that this was the case in 20+ of them. Which is beyond ridiculous.
Rather like Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and others totally screwed up serious UFO and close encounter investigation and research and introduced the fictituious Grey who went on to become the insectillid, reptillean or what ever. People who did not claim abductions and would not accept that they were 'really' abducted had their requests to investigators thrown out.
It's a mess and unless you are willing to buy into it...."screw you!" Presenting hard evidence that a case is a hoax is being a "government stooge" and that brings me to...me.
Firstly, when you have alleged "researchers" looking into UFO crashes in the UK and have a loose grip on reality problems emerge. Regarding the "Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash" -I will point out here that no extra terrestrial craft crashed there- the late Margaret Fry had solid facts and details from me as well as analysis of a shard of metal and I actually found the source of this metal and proved the whole story was fake. Unfortunately, Margaret told me I was daft in believing it was all fake and the metal was "not of this planet". An associate of hers sent me an email one day, no introduction, but demanded -demanded- that I hand all evidence and reports I had over to him. I sent him the chapter from Some Things Sytrange & Sinister dealing with the case and he ignored it and gave me a deadline to cooperate.
I didn't.
On a Welsh UFO forum and this went on to others I was accused of "popping up out out nowhere" when this 'investigator' was looking at the case. I was, and I had no idea about this, a South Wales based claimed ufologist who was either a government disinformation mouthpiece or agent. I have been involved in Ufology since 1973. I have written many articles for UFO publications -some in Flying Saucer Review-I have given talks, run international UFO projects and in fact you can find out more about me online than any other British researcher (I am NOT a Ufologist) and I am very open to questions. I even sent the idiot my full UFO Cv and .....he obviously could not read that well.
So, it seems that I live in South Wales and I am a government agent.
This is not the first time I have heard this type of fantasy. One idiot at the old British Flying Saucer Bureau was so incompetent not only did he refuse to turn around and watch some unidentified lights that I and 200 other peoplewere observing but after I had left the BFSB he accused me of having his mail delayed (in fact he had not written to anyone and just assumed that everyone would write to him).
Over the years it was revealed that I held the rank of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was in charge ofUFO investigation. That I had the rank of Flight Lieutent in the Royal Air Force and carried out UFO investigations. Oh, I was also a Lieutenant in the Army doing similar. I had been flown down to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands during the conflictthere in an RAF Hercules aircraft due to a wave of UFO sightings...there is more. Some ofthese -particularly the Falklands/Malvinas story- came from known and admitted hoaxer Eric Morris about whom a book could be written.
It goes on and on but let me makethings clear. Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, the first Director of RAF Intelligence, had been long retired when he and the late Lord (Brinsley) Clancarty alobg with several others suggested I set up the AOP Bureau and "Grey Book". It was a private project not government sanctioned and that was it. Overthe years I learnt many things and people and a good few thinghs that might make me money but as one of those "founders" said: "His wordmeans more than any official secrets act" and, indeed, things will go with me to the grave. Not great "mind staggering UFO secrets" but things I learnt along the way and i have to say that at no point did the Ministry of Defence ever create problems. In fact it actively helped me get to the bottom of the "Ghost Lear Jet" incident and, to boot, gave me a new mystery when it did so.
Police forces have always been cooperative (oh, forget that I was also "a Special Branch officer gathering UFO information...I wish I had been drawing some of these salaries) and all ofthe cooperation probably stems from the fact that I know how each operates and I never demand or threaten to expose anyone or thing. They are as much in thedark about UFOs as everyone else and people in official bodies have as many different beliefs and theories as ufologists.
Have I come across mysteries? Of course I have. It has to be remebered that a mystery today can be solved tomorrow or in ten years. In some instances it has taken me 10, 20 and even 35 years to getto the bottom of a case. I am a sceptic which means I need to see the evidence and base my conclusions on theevidence or at least based on the testimony given. People who state that I debunk cases and have claimed to have debunked all the "mysteries" I have investigated are people who have never read anything I have written or my books. If I cannot explain something then....it's currently unexplainable. What do I think of Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind and some early abduction cases? Buy my books and you will see -fully referenced, illustrated and if I think someone is credible then I say so.
The point is this: you need to cut through all the fantasy and fakery and misinformation (in Ufology especially) to getto the real mysteries. The cases that make you sit in a chair in silence and ask yourself "Did this really happen?" and if you've checked every angle and ever claim and counter claim then you can only conclude that it MUST have happened.
Monday, 6 September 2021
Saturday, 4 September 2021
Yes, A Public Group To Look At Exotic Species Living Wild In The UK
Yes, I have taken the step of setting up a Face Book EAR group so that people can message me privately if necessary.
There are currently links to blog articles but, hopefully, some new material soon.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/372804871017547
Friday, 3 September 2021
Haunted Skies Exposure: The after effects of interaction with the UFO phenomenon
- photo: Steve Willis
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- Publisher : Independently published (23 Aug. 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8622717642
- Dimensions : 18.9 x 1.85 x 24.61 cm
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Skies-Exposure-interaction-phenomenon/dp/B09DFDCHN5/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
A book which details the after effects of what happens to people who have had the misfortune to encounter sightings of Unidentified flying objects.
One of three,Volumes which shows from extensive research made into the subject, that these objects can and have caused all manner of both physical and psychological trauma.
The main author is a retired West Midlands Police CID Officer, who has spent over 25 years researching into the subject. The object shown on the front cover, continues to intrigue- as it was recovered from one of the witnesses. While it cannot be proved it is an 'alien implant' it was tested at a University, and remains unidentified