The movie Ghost Busters is NOT training....really.

The word is out "Hooper must be stopped!"

I find that offensive. It should be "Hooper-Scharf must be stopped!"

This goes beyond childish stupidity and when you have "paranormalists" teaming up with ufologists and cryptozoologists (these people all tend to know each other as they work hand-in-glove to spin out fabrications to keep that money gravy-train going) you have to wonder just what investigation and research work they are carrying out -surely not just "copy and paste"?  I can only guess that is how Adam Davies' book, Man Beasts, was put together.

https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2017/08/review-manbeasts-personal-investigation_16.html

And people have to be very careful who they have to jump into bed with:
https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-soha-project-adam-davies-and-portals.html

In Strange & Mysterious Beasts I exposed the fact that stories coming from Cannock Chase that were promoted by writers who jump from UFOs to mystery beast to the paranormal, were known jokes and hoaxes at the time -the people involved TOLD THEM.

The fakery around the Owl Man of Cornwall is very well known amongst those people who continue to promote it as genuine.

There are certain names and blogs promoting new cases and you hear them mentioned it sounds alarm bells -fake witness names, witnesses who cannot be named even to other credible researchers. The line "....reported this incident to me and I have talked with -- and he/she seems to be genuine as far as I can tell" covers a lot of fakery.

On at least ten occasions I came across case summaries that were similar to ones I had looked into so contacted the blog/web site owners.,  They had no idea who the witness was or any other basic details: "ask --- as it was on his blog". So I messaged the originator of the story. Nothing.  Over and over again the same thing and if one did respond it was "I was told about this by a friend who looks into weird crap". Seriously, people post on what they call "Fully investigated" incidents that have no checkable facts but  "I was told about this by a friend who looks into weird crap" and, 'obviously', that friend has moved on and is no longer in contact.

Unlike my books, that are all fully referenced and can be checked by others -and I often state people should never just take my word on something but carry out their own checks- to avoid accepting what I write as "gospel".  It is the only form of peer review available but it ensures that I don't just write "Hammond told me this was checked by him and is true" and that's it. For decades I read "This photograph/image" was lost many decades ago.  So I checked the original quoted source (unlike the people who wrote and repeated that line) and..oh, there is the image "lost many decades ago".

I have found images and other items -often stolen by some of the Disreputables and claimed as their own work -including some very prominent cryptozoologists.

You see, I want to learn. I want to study the facts and if I cannot explain something I say so. If I can prove without a doubt what something reported as "unexplainable" was/is then I give the facts backed up by sources.

We are NOT living in a world where Sasquatch type creatures roam the UK. 

There are not many millions of "alien abductions of humans" taking place every year. 

There are no huge alien aquatic bases that are constant areas of activity -hundreds of reports of these strange craft entering and leaving the sea but the best the UFO 'hunters' come up with is faked footage?  

There was no UFO crash at Aurora, Roswell or anywhere else. 

Black Eyed Children were a creation of a newspaper reporter. 

The Thin Man/Stick Manor whatever you want to call it was also a copyrighted creation so how 'genuine' reports can exist is anyone's guess -psychological or hoax?

A gateway to Hell or portal to Hell seemingly existing in every American home is crap. Ask why it is the same places -open to tourism or ghost watches- on every paranormal entertainment show.  Stone and plaster fall in a near derelict building...well, that 'has' to be paranormal, right?

Poltergeist phenomena exist -I've seen that first hand. I have seen other things odd and weird things and I have even felt sheer terror when nothing was seen/present. Do I immediately jump onto the "You cannot explain this!" bandwagon or claim it was a demon or the devil. As with The Devil of Downend, if I can I confront something. To spend a life time investigating, say, UFOs, and the first time a 'UFO' is seen to land...run away?  Again, I am reminded of an incident in which a group of police officers watched as I advanced on such an object because "That's your job not ours!"

Despite everyone else involved in these subjects I do not walk around in a silly hat, dressed all in black like some paramilitary nightclub bouncer because it "looks cool".  It doesn't.

I have read so many local and even national newspaper items about this or that group of "dedicated paranormal investigators" who were inspired by the fantasy fiction comedy film Ghost Busters.  Really?  And they explain all the "top notch scientific gear" they carry -almost word-for-word quotes from certain paranormal TV shows. Most of these people will fade away after a while when the subject does not meet their fantasy needs or something sends them into near mental breakdown (showing that they were totally unfit for the task) or it becomes clear that they were already suffering some mental health issue -I could cite cases but that would involve giving away who was involved.

I have seen and heard people "dedicated to the investigation and seeking the truth" run away when a "UFO" is seen to land or they hear what they think is a "ghost" or even spot an animal they cannot clearly identify straight away do like wise. Mounting 'expeditions' seems to yield more stories about gullibility, stupidity and drunken behaviour that about...sorry, what was the expedition for again?  Oh, of course, to get a book deal or on TV -anything that involves getting money.

What does real, factual investigation and research bring you? Not money -my bank account proves that.  Just lots of work.

I do not go out looking for fraud.  If I hear of a report and it interests me I will follow it up -if hoaxing or fakery is involved then I report on it.  

I am a sceptic in that I look for facts and I never declare anything fake/misidentified or otherwise until I have looked into it. I never ever assume that anyone is an idiot, mistaken or lying untril I meet or talk to them and look at the facts.  That does not make me a debunker who claims everything is a hoax or rot (read my books).

It was only when two paranormal groups admitted that they would not give me case information because "We discussed it and you have a reputation and we were worried" that I realised this was going on. Apparently a "lot" of ghost hunting groups were frightened of me and what I might find.  Ridiculous.  Then I learnt, via individuals involved in cryptozoology that the same thing applied there -I got people nervous.  I knew this about ufology because it is 99.9% fake and that is proven easily (as they knew) and proving fakery might mean them losing money from conning people -good.

So I am in the position of having all of these factions wanting to somehow drive me out or attack my reputation.  Firstly, I am not "in" anything to be driven out.  Secondly, as noted, everything I write and post about is fully referenced and I have made it my business to ensure that I am honest and do not hide things -I am a fairly open book so casting my honesty into doubt is going to be very difficult.

Why time waste like this unless these people are not serious.about what they are doing because it doesn't take them that long to make something up or copy and paste.

If you hear something about me or an accusation then don't just accept it like a brain dead amoeba -ask me.  I know,

Some Ufologists Appear To Be Worried

Quite honestly I find it very pathetic that certain factions want to close my blogs (this one and the AE/CE3K one) and silence me.

There have been a few attempts since I announced that I was re-opening the blogs and these came after I discovered Ufologists were actively attempting to stop word spreading about my books.  Honestly, they have NOT read either of the three UFO books but are terrified of the contents.  Why? Well you would need to ask them but I suspect that they have vested interests in perpetuating myths and lies (money).

Do I have any correspondence or documents to prove what I wrote about Budd Hopkins?  Well, read my book.  And for those ufologists finding it difficult to read a factual book, I re-posted three videos about Hopkins work.  Also, and I suppose these people to copy and paste rather than do serious research reading, there are plenty of online articles about Hopkins and Jacobs and their false research from credible authors who are not debunkers.

You set yourself up as a researcher or investigator and you ignore anything that might challenge your money/work or simply have done no research but are just using ufological 'names' then your books are obviously not of much value.

I treat every and anyone who contacts me with respect and openess but getting semi-literate emails from idiots  is where I draw the line.  Also a little odd that these all come on the same day...?

All of this written I have to say that it warms the old heart. Because, obviously, there are ufologists out there who are afraid of being exposed. Unless you want me to focus a lot of attention on you and your work and then write about what I find out -give it a miss. I have been in ufology and gathered quite a lot of information on ufologists in 40 plus years.

Leave ufology to serious researchers.

The Unknowns: Mystifying UFO Cases

Hickson and Parker case

I was asked again about the Hickson and Parker case. I dealt with it at length in UFO Contact?  It seems the new book -which I have not read- has gotten a few people stirred up.

It is a case I believe is genuine.  But that is based on the information and NO ONE, other than the two men, know/knew the truth.

I feel credibility is lost when Budd Hopkins enters the scene and does a quick meet-greet-and let's do a regression session before leaving. At that point it turns into a Hopkins abduction scenario. I cannot say I believe what I am reading about the 'memory uncovered'.

As I pointed out in my book, Hickson, Parker -like Mona Stafford and others- seem to have undergone a form of post traumatic stress.

Do not criticise these people until you have read the facts.

This Is The Brightest and The Hungriest Black Hole in the Universe

The Yeovil Bus Stop Alien

This story appeared on a good few online 'news' web sites and, as is my rule, whatever I thought about it personally it needed to be looked into. I never dismiss a report until I have the facts.  

Here is what the newspapers wrote:

The Sun

SPACE COWBOY Alien sighting reported in Yeovil as man claims he saw sinister seven-foot creature wearing cowboy hat at bus stop

By CARL STROUD

22 Dec 2016, 11:41Updated: 22 Dec 2016, 12:49

Alleged encounter leaves motorist so spooked he has not been able to sleep since

A SINISTER seven-foot alien wearing a cowboy hat has been spotted at a bus stop in Yeovil.

The alleged extra-terrestrial was black, had no face, spikes down its side and “silky” hair.

 Panicked driver sent sketch of extra-terrestrial to local paper after witnessing it at bus stop

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Panicked driver sent sketch of extra-terrestrial to local paper after witnessing it at bus stop Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

The spooked driver who claims to have witnessed it outside Yeovil College in Somerset says the encounter has left him so terrified he hasn’t been able to sleep since.

He said: "I was driving up the road as I normally do and I saw this dark looking figure by Yeovil College. It looked quite tall and had this big Stetson hat.

"I slowed down to have a closer look and thought it's not a man, it was about 7ft tall.

"It had this long thin tube coming from the top of it and spikes coming out of the side. The middle bit of it was like moleskin and hairy.

"The thing wasn't moving at all and was in this box that had sparks coming out of it. It was like something out of science fiction."

The man, who does not want to be named, drew a sketch of the creature, which he claims he saw on the afternoon of December 15, in the hope someone will tell him what it is.

In the drawing he notes that the beast, which was black in colour, wore a "weird" coat and had "silky hair".

The image also shows a long, rectangular body and a thin tube coming out of the hat, which looks like some kind of flute or long pipe.

The alien doesn't appear to have a face.

The man sent his drawing to his local paper and added that he wishes he had never stumbled upon it.

He added: "I just keep thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just mad.

"I'm struggling to sleep because of it and have been looking online seeing what it could be but am at a loss."

                                  -fin-

Then there was the Mail's account which was the same. In fact, every story on this I have seen is identical. And that suggests it was all copy and paste from a release sent in.

The Mail
By ANTHONY JOSEPH FOR MAILONLINE 

PUBLISHED: 13:28, 22 December 2016 | UPDATED: 16:08, 22 December 2016

Terrified motorist convinced he saw a 7ft alien wearing a cowboy hat at a bus stop has sketched an image of the sinister creature to show the world
He claims to have seen the sinister-looking figure outside Yeovil College 
It unnerved him so much he hasn't slept since and had to sketch an image 
In his sketch, the alien doesn't appear to have a face but was wearing a hat

A motorist says he was left terrified after spotting what he is convinced was a 7ft silky-haired alien, wearing a cowboy hat, waiting for a bus.


The driver said the sinister-looking figure, standing outside Yeovil College in Somerset, unnerved him so much he hasn't slept since and had to sketch an image to show the world.

The 'alien' had no face and a long thin tube coming from the top of it.

The creature-spotter, who has asked not to be named, said it was standing outside the college at a bus stop as he drove past.

He said: 'I was driving up the road as I normally do and I saw this dark looking figure by Yeovil College. It looked quite tall and had this big Stetson hat.

'I slowed down to have a closer look and thought it's not a man, it was about 7ft tall.

'It had this long thin tube coming from the top of it and spikes coming out of the side. The middle bit of it was like moleskin and hairy.

'The thing wasn't moving at all and was in this box that had sparks coming out of it. It was like something out of science fiction.'

The man drew an annotated picture of the alien, which he claims he saw on the afternoon of December 15, in the hope someone will tell him what it is.

In the drawing he notes that the beast, which was black in colour, wore a 'weird' coat and had 'silky hair'.

The image also shows a long, rectangular body and a thin tube coming out of the hat, which looks like some kind of flute or long pipe.

The alien doesn't appear to have a face.

The man sent his drawing to his local paper and added that he wishes he had never stumbled upon it.

He said: 'I just keep thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just mad.


'I'm struggling to sleep because of it and have been looking online seeing what it could be but am at a loss.' 
                                         -fin-

No one appears to have tried talking directly with the witness. You might think local journalists would jump on this "silly story" to sensationalise it but no.

So, I put out an appeal (and, yes, I was called an "alien hunter"!) because if this witness was so stunned and wanted to know what he had seen he would see the appeal and get in touch, right?

No. I tried everything but no one else appears to have reported this strange site. It was rather suspicious that this happened next to a college.  In fact, based on the description it seems that the alien looked more constructed...if anything was actually seen.

In my opinion, and I am open to being convinced otherwise, this was a college hoax. Allegedly one unnamed person saw this and that was it -the sources could not even tell me the original story source but, as with Cannock Chase, I knew that journalists were/are not shy to carry out a little hoaxing (oddly one journalist named was not at that paper and had no contact details online (!).

Unless there are other witnesses coming forward this has to be classed as a hoax.

UFO Contact -what do the experts say?

Having received a copy of UFO Contact? tgis is what the J. Allen Hynek Centre for UFO Studies had to say about it:

           "...an impressive body of work. I appreciate your lively writing, use of original sources as much as possible, and forceful opinions about the cases, investigators, etc. And I concur with your evaluations of cases that have been pushed aside, such as Kelly, or Pascagoula."

Other UFO researchers who have read the book are of similar opinions. So are you going to just carry on reading the same old same old half truths and lies or try to find out what is REALLY going on?

UFO Contact? Unidentified-Identified and Contact!

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?
Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?
Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

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

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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?"

The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none.

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

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs

Some of the contents:

The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988    
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval 
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                        
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                             
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                   
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                        
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                             
     
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                     
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                       
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                           
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                      
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                            
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                               
         
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue 

220 pages

                                

Third Book in the Series

These cover everything from UFOs and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to encounters with unidentified humanoid creatures, ghosts, poltergeists, mysterious and unidentified creatures at sea, on land as well as bizarre carcasses washed ashore.  Loch Ness, Sasquatch, previously thought lost photographs of a city in the sky and others.

And if you want to concentrate solely on alleged alien abductions or encounters then UFO Contact? (receiving some praise from the Centre for UFO Studies) and the follow up, Unidentified-Identified are the books you need

Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?

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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

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

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

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

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