British Ufology Kept Pushing and...Someone pushed back

 Thinking about why the "false beards and we don't need no warrant card" brigade got involved in messing up Ufology in the UK.

If you were not there in the 1970s and 1980s this may be news for you.

At a Trowbridge UFO Conference in the 1970s we had Rex Dutta ("Fish tanks Ltd) showing official leaked UFO documents -dates, names, sources -and all completely faked. VERY amateurish also. Got a bit of publicity out of it and, of course, Ufologists pestered HMG over them as well as MPs.

There were claims that letters between Ufologists were being opened. Intercepted by "the security services". Even in the 1970s if an agency wanted to read what was in a letter it did not have to open letters. If it did you would not even know that they had. Re-sealing with sellotape would be the most clumsy and unprofessional thing ever. I was asked by several Ufologists why their letters were intercepted (rumour at that time spread by Ufologists was that I had "connections").

I talked to each one of them and then I did what no one else had bothered doing. I looked at who had sent the letters in question (some allegedly having material missing -removed- from them). Two names cropped up and they were at the conference. I took them to one side and told them that I hoped whoever was behind this would stop as I would otherwise have to raise the matter with "Royal Mail Security" who could track and take finger prints from the envelopes I was given and the tape would reveal a lot more. I said I'd wait a week and see i8f it continued. It didn't.

Then we had Merseyside UFO Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena (MIGAP) who created a great deal of a fuss and made claims of cover ups and even walked into a police station accusing the police and others of taking part in a cover up. UFO? No, a low flying RAF jet at night. MPs started asking questions and the press became a nuisance and listening to the tape of the police conversation I was surprised at how calm the officers had remained. Big stink that resulted in...nothing.

Some people in UFO groups then started going from silly to a point that I could not believe. They snuck around military airfields and bases sneaking photographs not just of aircraft but military personnel and civilian workers. This at the height of the Cold War and IRA high alert notifications. They photocopied photos and passed them around and there were a number cautioned by the police.

More faked 'official' documents.

More pestering Members of Parliament, the MoD and other bodies.

Then we had Eric Morris who continued faking information and documents up to a year before his death. He threatened witnesses (mainly women of advanced age such as Joan Amos) and told anyone within ear-shot or letter writing about his Royal Navy Intelligence work and how he was paid to "get at" certain Ufologists.

It was an out of control situation and one that, in the United States, would have been dealt with quickly. If you push, push and keep pushing and cause problems then eventually someone is going to ask "These people are telling all of these lies -why isn't someone doing something about this?" Military airfields and bases with nuclear weapons; someone decided enough was enough.

Certain Ufologists, prominent ones, were "helpful". Faking UFO reports and when being caught out not declaring which reports were faked and WHY. This began from the 1980s on and still goes on to an extent. It's why reports from the UK any time after 1979 are considered by me as not worth noting unless the witnesses can be contacted and spoken to. Flying Saucer Review gave a lot of these Ufologists a platform to work on -FSR itself was tainted by fakery and eventually fringe/crank theorising but had a world wide readership.

There are so many questions about the sudden finding of the Calvine UFO photo and the stories (there are three) behind it. And why at this very moment with all that is going on with the counter intelligence led "UAP" dialogue? The ex RAF man kept a photo in the hope someone might be interested one day. Bovine excrement. Far too convenient and enough variations on the story behind the photo.

Has anyone contacted any of the U. S. journalists specialising in Area 51 or secret aircraft development to see what they think? If not then we take a dodgy story and photo and jump up and down shouting "It's real! It's real!" but "real" what? Alien spacecraft or Earth technology?

I believe the Ministry of Defence has clean hands on this matter. If the top people in Defence were not seeing these photos then who saw them (question their account) and also ask why one ex journalist noted that the truth about the Calvine incident "lay with the Daily record" -which, unlike any other newspaper at the time, did not make copies for themselves or PUBLISH the photos.

Maybe I am getting paranoid after four decades because it is messing up my sense of smell and I am sure there is a dead rat somewhere.

But Ufology and media is praising the find of "the best (no) UFO photo ever".

Ignore me. I don't believe Luis Elizondo either and look where that got me on social media!

75 Years on -where are we with UFOs?

 

Getting away from the UFO crackpots and frauds we can say that some UFO reports are natural phenomena while others are misidentifications and they (excluding all "bright light" UFOs) are identified and thrown aside and that leads us with what appear to be solid, constructed craft which WE do not have. 

If Russia, China or the US had these in the 1950s the world would be totally different now.

 We can dismiss the "Greys" (Hopkins, Jacobs and, after looking at things again, to an extent even Mack) because prior to Hopkins we had short, large headed entities but NO GREYS (though Ufologists have started changing those reports). What Hopkins, but especially Jacobs, has written is pure nonsense and both are discredited. 

We know certain stimuli can create a seemingly 100% physically real encounter for some people. Unless there is secondary, independent witness testimony then single witness events are excluded (but studied). That leaves us with incidents involving two or more percipients and if those have corroborating independent witnesses then you have a pretty solid case.

 Abductions are very rare (I could write books on that...oh, I have...four!) and if those inside these seemingly constructed craft do not look wholly human and state that they are from another planet then they must be. 

The encounters and physiological/psychological effects are genuine. 

The radiation contamination are real. 

Signs that something large landed are real. 

Now in a criminal case that is almost 100% circumstantial/ anecdotal evidence. Does it give us 100% irrefutable evidence of aliens visiting? 

No. 

An abductee really needs to steal something or be involved in something Jacobs, Mack and Hopkins agreed to take part in -the Damocles Project -which might give results. 

For every Adamski fraud or Cynthia Appleton there are cases presenting more evidence. Unfortunately my getting the chance to be involved in an encounter seem to be getting shorter but all we can do is gather the data.

Calvine UFO and The Bude Flying Triangle

 Am I missing something?

According to Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/best-ufo-picture-calvine-photo-found-30-years-missing-1733673

"On August 4, 1990, two hikers near Calvine in Scotland took a photograph of a mysterious, diamond-shaped flying object hovering in the middle of the sky.

For 32 years that image, dubbed the "Calvine photo," disappeared from the public eye, becoming the object of speculation, theories and myths. But now, the groundbreaking image has finally resurfaced thanks to the efforts of British journalist David Clarke.

After 13 years of research, Clarke—who has worked as a curator for Britain's National Archives and is currently an associate professor at Sheffield Hallam University—found that former Royal Air Force (RAF) press officer Craig Lindsay had held on to a copy of the last remaining original print, waiting for someone to enquire about the mysterious image.

In the photo—one of a series of six the hikers reportedly took—a diamond-shaped object can be seen flying in the sky, while a fighter jet can be spotted in the background not too far from it."

The first thing I noticed all those years ago was that there is something "off" about the positioning and quality of the UFO and there was something wrong about the aircraft. In point of fact the main criticism was that there was absolutely nothing in the photo to use as scale or -pointed out very quickly- nothing to show WHERE the photo was taken.

There are things you can look for but if you are dealing with a copy from a copy (with the old film cameras) it gets harder. Ground Saucer Watch in the United States "pioneered" UFO photo computer analysis and even ones identified as "genuine" many years later were revealed as hoaxes; you really need the original negatives now THOSE found would have been a breakthrough.

This is certainly NOT "one of the best" UFO photographs in existence.

I have to keep asking myself why an "arch sceptic" such as David Clarke go so excited and started promoting this photo?

We KNOW that Ufologists have been faking UFO stories since the 1980s almost like a cottage industry. It is why certain reports are never given a high credibility rating. The biggest hoaxing Ufologists are based -or were- in the North of England and I wonder whether anyone recalls this photo from 1995?

A copy was sent to me anonymously all that identified its source was a Yorkshire postmark and a note (typed) that read "Taken in Scotland I want to be anonymous for saffety" ((sic). Then Encounters magazine published the photo -after I received a call from them about this "genuine flying triangle being refuelled" and had I seen it? No one at the magazine seemed to want to answer any questions about who the photo was from. In fact, they were downright refusing to answer questions -after they had phoned me!

I then got a phone call from a reporter at the Mirror newspaper who asked me about flying triangle being refuelled. I stated that I had seen it along with some photo specialists and we believed it to be a fake. The reporter then said "Yeah, our photog reckons its dodgy" -my guess is that they wanted someone to say it was genuine!

I then followed procedure and checked with various people and organisations including the Ministry of Defence. It took less than 24 hours to find out what was going on.

The story was that Encounters had received the photo just before going to press. They asked no questions and never checked but "grabbed" the photo. They then -the magazine which would have no right to do so- immediately contacted the Daily Mail newspaper to sell the photograph to them. The rather annoyed editor told me they had "checked the photo" (no details) and that it was "a bloody fake". It was a "fake" in the sense that it was a mock-up produced to show how stealth aircraft being refuelled might look. In fact, Encounters had "paid hardly anything" for the mock-up image and then went about trying to sell it themselves for a great deal.

Things got even less likely when the hoax was exposed. Encounters stated that they knew who the hoaxer was but would not name him and would take the matter no further since he had "learning difficulties" -yet conned them into buying the image ("a very good quality photo" I was told)? And so the "Bude photo" as it was known died a death after a quick apology and before anyone dug into the story and found out that they had been trying to sell the photo as their own for money.

The only reason this was discovered to be a fake is that it was published in a magazine read by an aviation reporter who spotted it. So, if 'lost' and turning up in 2022 would it be genuine because the copy looked good?

Look at these photos sent to me by someone I know -NOT involved with UFOs- and who was shocked by what he captured on a hot sunny day on a hill overlooking Bristol. I guarantee these are not faked.

We can see that these objects are at a distance from the observer (not seen at the time) and would be 300 feet or so above the city.

Below we can see the two discs one above the other

The "saucer shape with dome -two objects moving together over the central Bristol area. and I have darkened this a little to try to make the shapes seem clearer. The photo gives us a lot of the information we need and which is lacking in the Bude and Calvine photos.

So why has this copy of the photo suddenly turned up after 32 years of, I am led to believe, Nick Pope and many other Ufologists trying to find it? It has been mentioned on TV, online, in magazines and the word was out in RAFT circles as well as the MoD in general Lord (Peter) Hill-Norton told myself and others associated with our work that he had never heard or seen the Calvine photo. Would he be expected to have seen it? Yes. In case you have no idea who he was:

Hill-Norton was swiftly propelled into the post of First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in July 1970 and then, having been promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 12 March 1971,into the post of Chief of the Defence Staff in April 1971following the unexpected early retirement of Sir Michael Le Fanu due to ill health. In the latter role he gave the final commitment to Project Chevaline, the Polaris missile improvement programme. He became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in 1974, remaining in that post until his retirement in 1977. He also maintained his various links within defence after retirement and was responsible for the setting up of UFO Concern which aimed at getting some form of UFO disclosure from the UK government (my own disclosure is that I was recruited to UFO Concern after it was setup).

Again; why now and WHY such a hullaballoo over a copy of a suspect photo?

Retired F-18 Pilot Reports 5 UAPs Pacing His Aircraft Over Channel Islan...

Get off of your asses

 

Slenderman  -a commercial hoax fully documented including (c)

Black Eyed Kids - a hoax by a journalist and BEK were never reported before his story. Proven

Anything else?

DO NOT accept hack, sensationalist authors whose only aim is to make money out of your gullibility.

Skin Walker Ranch -hoax

Oh. I forgot. People want to live in a fantasy world where every home -basements, lofts -all have a "portal to Hell" and "dimensional gateway" a "demonic presence" and always a "little ghost girl -or is it?"

There are real, genuine mysteries out there. Get off your asses and do some research. Do field work and do not fake stuff.

Important Announcement

 I was up until around 0400 hrs and made a decision.

When you have poured decades into work that goes into a book (we are talking the "World Mystery" and UFO books) and you try to keep that book at a low price to encourage buyers that is a publisher decision and I made it.

When a £20.00 book brings in 75p that is far from good. Put it this way; if people went buy crazy and purchased 100 copies of a book I would not even get £100 -only £75 (if you are American just think of £ as $).

As it happens the sales have been so bad because no one recommends them and there is no word-of-mouth to let people know about them.

My posts on the books have been seen, as of today, by just under 1 million people. No sales.

So I have decided that this cannot go on.

I am going to withdraw the books from the online store and see whether I can get a publisher or agent and if I cant well people haver had between 12-5 years to purchase the books so no one is going to miss them. You will NOT find them on Amazon nor on Ebay because those sellers have to buy them from me and generally add up to £10/$10 to the cost and that is why I blocked that (also selling on Amazon would earn me less than 75p a copy).

The books will be gone and I am not that worried because they are doing nothing anyway. People are more illiterate these days and do not read and, in fact, when they do they prefer fantasy substituted for fact.

Big weight off my shoulders and the albatross will be gone.

"Drama", Counterintelligence, and the UAP Conversation