Friday, May 30, 2014
Inter-dimensional UFOs (and beings)?
Posted on 6:38 AM by jackline
This account from the website INEXPLICATA-THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY, 5/27/2014, contains indications of an inter-dimensional intrusion by an alien of cosmologically foreign origin:
“Witnesses speak of the strange presence of a humanoid-type being in the beaches of Necochea on 20 May 2014 (date to be confirmed) at 23:00 hours (approx.). It seemed to float, was very large as its strides were quite long. It was seen from an apartment in the coastal area at the beach resort itself. It moved along the beach, near the water, before vanishing abruptly. Before this, it appeared to fade away, as parts of its body would disappear. It should be noted that this was an extremely cold evening and there was no one walking along the shore. On Sunday, 18 May, other people also witnessed a strange, man-like figure heading to the sea, to an illuminated site at the water's edge. The sighting was also made from an apartment facing the shore. After 22:00 on that cold and rainy night, whatever was headed into the sea vanished along with the white lights on the berm.” [Italics, mine]
Such accounts/reports of vanishing or fading-in-and-out UFOs and/or creatures are rife in UFO lore, as you know, and many contained “large-in-stature” visitors…
The Voronezh sightings(s) of 1989
The 1976 Canary Island observation(s)
The 1973 Greesburg, Pennsylvania episode(s)
The 1879 Knock, Ireland visitation(s)
The 12th Century Elidor events(s)
Et cetera
For me, such observations are part of the UFO panoply, which causes sensible UFO buffs to name UFOs as “phenomena” – not “phenomenon” – as the raft of UFO accounts recorded over the years into the modern era are too diverse in essence to be attributable to one cause or source.
UFOs are phenomena, Jerry Clark notwithstanding.
And the Inexplicata account adds to that UFO inventory.
[The graphic, above, is from a painting by Mattijn Franssen, found at Fubiz.net]
RR
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Roswell, The U.S. Navy, and flying saucers/disks (or discs)
Posted on 7:36 AM by jackline
This book, one of my favorite among the many extant, contains reproductions of the July 1947 newspaper [New York TIMES, et al.] accounts of the Roswell incident.
And it also has a reproduction of a U.S. News & World Report [April 7, 1950] entitled Flying Saucers – The Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942.
In that article is this:
Best use of fully developed saucer aircraft however could be made in warfare not by the Air Force but by the Navy. All fleet operations now require an air cover, even in anti-submarine warfare, and a plane that can rise like a helicopter could be used from [a] Navy Combat Ship, not only from big expensive aircraft carriers. It was for that reason that the first U.S. flying saucer was purchased by the Navy after the original model was tested in 1942. That first full-size aircraft built by Chance-Vought was thoroughly tested by Navy engineers. Then a statement was received that this project had been dropped. Early experimentation with saucers, thus. centered in the Navy. [Appendix 3, Page 277/15]
Again, the Navy, not the Air Force.
Also, if those of you want an overview of the flying saucer/flying disk nomenclature in the print press, you will find copies of articles – the actual newspaper accounts – of the 1947 time-frame in this book.
RR
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Roswell/Rendlesham Competition
Posted on 7:11 AM by jackline
After the 1978 promotion of Roswell by Stanton Friedman et al., many countries vied to produce their own Roswell incident.
Today, the U.K. ufologists, boosted by our friend Nick Pope, have almost made the December 1980 Rendlesham episode as noteworthy in UFO lore as Roswell has become.
The 1980 affair has developed into a mythos not unlike the Roswell “event” but without dead alien bodies and an official military press release.
The current take on the Rendlesham “sighting” is heralded by men who were stationed at a military base nearby [Bentwaters/Woodbridge] and on patrol at the edge of the Rendlesham forest.
The two heaviest hitters for a Rendlesham extraterresrial visitation are John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, both making extensive television and conference appearances to tout their story that they encountered an alien craft in Rendlesham forest.
Since 1980, both men, and their commanding officer Charles Halt, have come to believe and proselytize their “encounter” as an extraterrestrial encounter.
But watching the three men, and in particular, Burroughs and Penniston, one has to come to the psychiatric conclusion that these fellows are enmeshed in a folie à deux or folie à trios – a “communicated insanity” [Psychiatric Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Hinsie and Campbell, Oxford University Press, 1970].
That is, these men did experience an unusual observation but, over the years, have extrapolated that observation, abetted by UFO researchers and buffs, into something quite beyond what actually occurred.
I won’t go into the vicissitudes of the evolutionary delusion because my point is that the UK contingent of ufologists – those on the believing end of UFO as ET craft – are pushing and have been pushing for several years now to make the Rendlesham incident comparable to the Roswell incident.
They want pride of place in the ufological pantheon just as some U.S. UFO researchers have garnered from Roswell.
Why?
UFOs make those involved a little or a lot crazy.
Facts and reality are set aside for fiction and contrived psychotic imaginings.
RR
Sunday, May 25, 2014
UFOs: A Sign to be Something, to do Something
Posted on 5:37 PM by jackline
In the May 22, 2014 issue of The London Review of Books a passage in a review by Leland de la Durantaye of Peter Handke’s Essay on Jukeboxes [Page 33 ff.] there is this:
“In Soria the unnamed ‘he’ sees a strange light that seems ‘as though it were shining up from the earth’. It’s arresting enough to make him want ‘immediately’ to go off somewhere and write and write and write …”
This suggested to me a thesis that UFOs are mental and physical insertions for the observer prodding them to do something, to be something; that is, a proposal to go forth and be profound and humanly spectacular.
The source of the UFO is not important here.
The sensory push is the sine qua non of UFO sightings.
And the proddings are democratic in that they do not select the finest minds to make the suggestion to but, rather, are offered to the common man; the offer being a kind of evolutionary thrust of a seemingly simple kind.
Unfortunately, the offerer or source of the suggestion, from time immemorial and categorized by sightings in The Bible and ancient texts, and in the accumulated registry of Wonders in the Sky by Vallee/Aubeck (often cited here), has been, generally, flummoxed by modern observers, whereas the observers of the past took the hint and did things profound and/or spectacular. See Biblical episodes for example(s).
In the modern era, where existential angst has exhausted common humanity of profundity and spectacular thought or deeds, UFO sightings have been miscarriages of the enlightened hint.
Modern observers of UFOs have quailed at the sight of UFOs or flying saucers, seeing the enigmatic lights or ships as something material and otherworldly or too odd to cope with at an artistic or intelligent level.
Modern observers shirk the mystical aspect of UFOs, most common folk (all common folk?) having little or no insight to what reason they were born or what their purpose in life is or is meant to be.
The instigation of a mystical sign to people is something so foreign as to cause them what is often reported by UFO observers: fear and trembling or all-out incomprehension.
But I’m suggestion that UFOs are a sign, a push, for those seeing such things to make more of their sighting than just a report – a report that will get the once over by ufologists and UFO researchers/investigators who are as numb to the meaning of the sighting as the person who’s had it.
The UFO appearance should make the person seeing it aware that he or she should be something or do something – something significant and spectacular.
RR
Friday, May 23, 2014
A methodology (or ruse) that UFO researchers might consider
Posted on 1:55 PM by jackline
A way to get at hidden UFO materials in the hands of the government?
http://news.sciencemag.org/2014/05/how-two-economists-got-direct-access-irs-tax-records
http://news.sciencemag.org/2014/05/how-two-economists-got-direct-access-irs-tax-records
What do you think?
Posted on 7:22 AM by jackline
Ryan Hart provided a (short) video that he'd like an explanation for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=jpTBvcKpZrQ
Take a look and tell us what you think the video shows.
RR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Take a look and tell us what you think the video shows.
RR
A UFO Technology?
Posted on 6:48 AM by jackline
The July 2014 Maximum PC issue’s column by Tom Halfhill [Fast Forward, Page 13] tells readers of a demonstration that Mr. Halfhill attended which I found to be interesting.
An engineering team (not disclosed from where) provided a look at a new microwave oven in which they had placed a whole fish embedded in an ice block.
The engineers “cooked” the fish without melting the block of ice it was in.
They took the fish out, chipped away the ice, and served the steaming/cooked fish to observers.
The underlying technology Mr. Halfhill tells readers is “radio beamforming” – shaping a radio signal for maximum efficiency, to cook a fish or to deliver radio frequencies to various communication devices.
If a military agency or alien (extraterrestrial) intruder employed such technology, it seems they could disrupt any operating system without destroying its surrounding environment.
Does this explain some UFO experiences/reports where a car or airplane is disabled but not ruined to the point of inoperability?
The “radio beamforming” would have to be nuanced, of course, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem, as the cooked fish demonstration showed.
RR
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The elusiveness of an MJ-12-like group
Posted on 6:52 AM by jackline
Nick Redfern’s hypothetical thesis about a possible UFO cabal that hasn’t been able to unravel the UFO mystery or what they allegedly discovered or obtained from Roswell in 1947 strikes a nerve with many UFO aficionados.
Why?
Because there is an underlying, subliminal perception that there have always been cabals or secret agencies at work in society.
This was true when it came to the assassination of Julius Caesar and the machinations to nail Jesus/Christ to the cross.
It’s a mainstay of historical events, too many to name here but a plethora of books have delineated such secret groups, from the Illuminati to the contemporary Bilderberg Group.
MJ-12, a hoax construct, resonates with UFO mavens because it has the plausibility of fact.
That a cabal killed President John Kennedy is believable for a number of reasons even though no substantial evidence for such a cabal has been found, not for a lack of trying by JFK assassination buffs.
And that a secret Battelle science group, The Stork Project, established to ferret out truths about the Roswell still exists intrigues but little is known about what it’s down and is doing in 2014.
A UFO study group, composed of military people, scientists, government personnel (from the CIA, NASA, The NSA, and other government agencies) is not unimaginable, and actually makes sense.
Why wouldn’t a group of select persons not be established to determine what UFOs are or were?
Does it belabor reality to think that Blue Book and other UFO investigational groups might continue to operate despite the official line that such groups have long been disbanded.
UFOs have a possibility that impacts society in a number of ways, all known to those who follow the UFO material outlining what would be affected if UFOs were determined to be real.
John Otto, a UFO investigator of the 1950s talked about a UFO “Silence Group” that supposedly suppressed information about an alleged alien or extraterrestrial communication transmitted on a WGN AM broadcast in 1954.
But if there is a Silence Group or an MJ-12 committee, why have UFO investigators not been able to uncover their operations?
Many of the other cabals or “secret” groups that perverted history by their devious machinations, during the French Revolution (The Terror) or in the events mentioned above, have been discovered by historians and writers looking to understand what really happened in key occurrences that affected human society.
Why not so when it comes to the JFK murder or UFOs?
Is it because those investigating the JFK matter or UFOs are tyros? That is, are those enamored of the topics or events not able to discern, forensically, the clues that would lead them to expose that’s going on, beneath the surface?
Or is it that the unraveling of the JFK killing or the UFO reality would undermine societal institutions so drastically that the reality has to be stifled or suppressed?
Or is there no secret UFO group extant? Or no JFK cabal at all?
RR
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Being knowledgeable about UFOs (and Roswell?)
Posted on 9:27 AM by jackline
A new novel by Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know [Farrar, Straus & Giroux], deals with who gets to be called “educated,” and why.
James Wood reviews the work for The New Yorker [May 19, 2014, The World As We Know It: Zia Haider Rahman’s dazzling debut, Page 87 ff.]
Author Rahman indicates “that we know much less than we think we do, that intellectual modesty in the face of mystery and complexity may be the surest wisdom.” [Page 87]
“Knowledge is what we have to go through, what we have to consume, in order to be finally consumed – in order to understand how little we knew.” [ibid]
Rahman found at Oxford, where he attended, that “knowledge was just ‘a social act’ … and the men and women there were merely inflating what the knew ‘to fill the voids’” because “the root of true, rightly guided power, the essence of authority, was not learning but the veneer of knowledge.” [Page 91]
(Much like what we find in comments here and at such venues as Kevin Randle’s blog.)
Rahman continues with “All of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.” [Page 92]
Metaphors “have their place … but ‘never as explanations, never as substitute for the thing itself, which is the only thing that can turn on the lights or leave us in the dark.’” [Page 98]
(That statement addresses the UFO problem.)
“Mathematician[s] also distrust metaphors, and … they never tell you what actually happened, ‘how it happened, or why it happened … if metaphors increase our understanding, they do so only because they take us back to a familiar vantage, which is to say that a metaphor cannot bring anything nearer.” [Page 98]
“… the novel uses Gödel’s theorem …employing it as a mantra, an image, a Platonic picture: there is truth somewhere, but not for us now.” [Page 98]
And to give comfort to ufologists and UFO ET believers, reviewer Wood tells readers that the novel’s character, Zafar, is “obsessed with … Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem:
Within any given system, there are claims which are true but which cannot be proven to be true.” [Page 91]
That should salve Anthony Bragalia, David Rudiak, Nick Redfern, and even the fringe paranormalists all over the place.
RR
Monday, May 19, 2014
Nick Redfern and his Indiana Jones approach to Roswell
Posted on 7:47 AM by jackline
Turning light into matter
Posted on 7:04 AM by jackline
This article (via link) is relevant to previous item here, about "solid light":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/19/photon_collider_light_into_matter/
RR
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/19/photon_collider_light_into_matter/
RR
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Solid light and the Burkes Flat UFO of 1966
Posted on 1:13 PM by jackline
While looking for UFO sightings in the time-frame of the 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter/Hillsdale “swamp gas” sightings, I came across the Burkes Flat (Australia) sighting of April 4th, 1966, which was featured as part of The Science Channel’s “Close Encounter” series [May 15/16, 2014].
Here is the full story as found on a Facebook page about Australian UFO sightings:
Date: April 4th, 1966
Location: Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia
At about 8:00 p.m., Ron Sullivan, was travelling on a straight sealed section of the Dunolly-St.Arnaud road, near Bourkes Flat, in central country Victoria. Ahead in a pasture off to his right, Sullivan observed an unusual light. He first took it to be a tractor, engaged in night plowing, but as he drew closer, Sullivan began to see a most unusual light display, located at ground level. The following things happened quickly as he drew closer to the scene, and then passed it. He was paying attention to both the light display in the pasture on his right and the road when he observed the following sequence of light display in the strange phenomenon in the pasture.
Initially, as he approached, Sullivan saw a white phosphorous type of light on the ground that appeared to be about 15' in diameter. It opened up and there was another white oval on top of it, about 30' in height, coming down making the shape of a cone, with a 15' bottom diameter and 20' top diameter. And in that cone were tubes of colored lights, all the lights as you see as you look through the spectrum, all the colors of the rainbow red, blue, indigo & purple. Travelling up and down, or they seem to be, from the small oval to the bigger oval at the top. They were going up and down in shafts. Then gradually the top seemed to come to meet the bottom, They seemed to close in, making a transition of one light oval, similar to first view, everything then just disappeared. The last thing Sullivan saw of the light display was just a spot on the ground, a light spot, become smaller and smaller, to nothing. Meanwhile, as he was driving, he observed that his car headlight beams suddenly appeared to be pointing in a direction off to the right in the direction of the strange light display and also seemed to be, bending back on an axis with the object in the pasture. As he got closer, the angle of bending of his cars headlight beams became more acute.
Location: Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia
At about 8:00 p.m., Ron Sullivan, was travelling on a straight sealed section of the Dunolly-St.Arnaud road, near Bourkes Flat, in central country Victoria. Ahead in a pasture off to his right, Sullivan observed an unusual light. He first took it to be a tractor, engaged in night plowing, but as he drew closer, Sullivan began to see a most unusual light display, located at ground level. The following things happened quickly as he drew closer to the scene, and then passed it. He was paying attention to both the light display in the pasture on his right and the road when he observed the following sequence of light display in the strange phenomenon in the pasture.
Initially, as he approached, Sullivan saw a white phosphorous type of light on the ground that appeared to be about 15' in diameter. It opened up and there was another white oval on top of it, about 30' in height, coming down making the shape of a cone, with a 15' bottom diameter and 20' top diameter. And in that cone were tubes of colored lights, all the lights as you see as you look through the spectrum, all the colors of the rainbow red, blue, indigo & purple. Travelling up and down, or they seem to be, from the small oval to the bigger oval at the top. They were going up and down in shafts. Then gradually the top seemed to come to meet the bottom, They seemed to close in, making a transition of one light oval, similar to first view, everything then just disappeared. The last thing Sullivan saw of the light display was just a spot on the ground, a light spot, become smaller and smaller, to nothing. Meanwhile, as he was driving, he observed that his car headlight beams suddenly appeared to be pointing in a direction off to the right in the direction of the strange light display and also seemed to be, bending back on an axis with the object in the pasture. As he got closer, the angle of bending of his cars headlight beams became more acute.
He thought his car must have been heading off the road to the right, and immediately compensated by turning it to the left. He found he was now heading directly towards a tree on the left hand side of the road. He turned the car to the right to regain the direction of travel along the straight section of road, thoroughly confused and leaving behind the display in the pasture.
He had his car lights checked and found them to be working properly. Later in Maryborough he found that a young man from Carnegie, Gary Taylor, was killed in a car accident at Burkes Flat on the night of April 6th, two nights later. Sullivan reported his experience to police. At the accident site, it was determined that Taylors car had collided with the same tree that Sullivan almost collided with 2 nights earlier. Directly opposite the tree in the pasture, about 70 yards from the roadway, coincident with where Sullivan saw the strange light display, a shallow depression was found in the plowed earth. It was a little over 3' in diameter and only a few inches in depth. The depression was cleanly scooped out of the sandy soil with no apparent debris around it. There were no human or animal tracks around the area. The property owner indicated the depression had not been there when he had finished plowing. There appeared to be no explanation for the depression or the light display.
He had his car lights checked and found them to be working properly. Later in Maryborough he found that a young man from Carnegie, Gary Taylor, was killed in a car accident at Burkes Flat on the night of April 6th, two nights later. Sullivan reported his experience to police. At the accident site, it was determined that Taylors car had collided with the same tree that Sullivan almost collided with 2 nights earlier. Directly opposite the tree in the pasture, about 70 yards from the roadway, coincident with where Sullivan saw the strange light display, a shallow depression was found in the plowed earth. It was a little over 3' in diameter and only a few inches in depth. The depression was cleanly scooped out of the sandy soil with no apparent debris around it. There were no human or animal tracks around the area. The property owner indicated the depression had not been there when he had finished plowing. There appeared to be no explanation for the depression or the light display.
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A few things struck me about this story…
First a personal note: We had a Gary Taylor working with us from (about 1966) to 1987. He’s still alive and kicking, but not his doppelganger, as noted in the account above.
And in looking at my notes about the Dexter/Frank Mannor 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter sighting that shoved Allen Hynek into buffoonery with his “swamp gas” explanation, Mr. Mannor said the object he saw, “had a light coming out of the bottom” -- a light that looked like milk being “spilt” into the ground, except that it was a light, that reflected off the surrounding trees.
Light acting like a solid has been the topic of conjecture in some science circles:
One of the 1966 Wanaque photos, which I’ve always considered a fake, but Anthony Bragalia insists is authentic, shows a light, emanating from a “craft” that has a solid demeanor about it:
There are a plethora of UFO sightings with light beams, none bending as that at Burkes Flat, but seemingly solid, not the wave/particle light that Einstein dealt with.
RR
This would seem to be a topic for scrutiny by ufologists of a serious kind, those who seek a clue or explanation explaining the UFO phenomenon.
(I’ll present more, and have passed my interest on to The Einstein Fellowship, an adjunct group of ours.)
For more on Burkes Flat, you might Google Bill Chalker and Burkes Flat. Mr. Chalker is a bona fide UFO researcher, whose analyses and research is above reproach.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
The FBI and Flying Disks, plus a mysterious AJB in an FOI document
Posted on 8:29 PM by jackline
Don wanted a source for my note that the FBI used "flying disk" for its sobriquet about the strange things flitting around the skies in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Here's a link where a document confirming my FBI notation may be read:
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/foia_001.htm
And note at the bottom of one section are the initials "AJB" -- the signature for Anthony Bragalia when he comments or posts material about UFOs here or at his personal blog:
Is Anthony Bragalia a MIB or was a government agent, way back when? [I kid]
RR
Here's a link where a document confirming my FBI notation may be read:
http://www.cufon.org/cufon/foia_001.htm
And note at the bottom of one section are the initials "AJB" -- the signature for Anthony Bragalia when he comments or posts material about UFOs here or at his personal blog:
Is Anthony Bragalia a MIB or was a government agent, way back when? [I kid]
RR
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The UFO Black Hole: Roswell
Posted on 9:25 PM by jackline
As one can see from the comments in the previous posting here about the Roswell Disk and a UFO book where it’s mentioned, the vicissitudes endemic to Roswell took over, as usual.
And the discussion, like all discussions about Roswell, intermingle with fact, fancy, and hefty biases of those intertwined in the commentary.
UFOs – what they are or may be – take a back seat.
The phenomenon isn’t even given a secondary status; it is ignored altogether, as participants struggle to make points within their Roswell construct.
Some see Roswell as a mythology. Others see it as the premise for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis. While a few see it as the Uncle Remus “tar baby.”
(This is the description of tar baby (from Wikipedia):
“The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br’er Rabbit. The more that Br’er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby. The more entangled he becomes.
In modern usage. “tar baby” refers to any “sticky situation” that is only aggravated by additional contact.”)
What did we discover from all the back-and-forth in the comments?
That Roswell skeptics get incensed with David Rudiak’s extensive Roswell research.
That’s about it.
For me, Roswell is a sociological/psychological conglomeration fueled by an incident that remains, after all these years, as fuzzy as it seems to have been in July 1947.
Even if the Roswell event were proven to consist of an alien space craft disaster, where does that take us, in 2014?
Does anyone think that Roswell will unravel the UFO phenomenon in its entirety or even substantially?
Suppose that the Roswell episode was a bona fide flying saucer crash from which alien bodies were extracted.
That raises more questions than it answers.
Roswell has become, for many UFO devotees, the one hoped-for credible UFO event that proves we are not alone in the universe and their obsession with UFOs is now considered prescient and worthwhile.
That, for me, explains why the topic and its ensuing commentary, that you saw here and also see regularly at Kevin Randle’s blog (along with a few others), is so intense and ragged.
It’s the utterances of persons at the brink of a delusional insanity….at the brink.
Paul Kimball came upon that interpretation after examining the comments found inside the posting. He didn’t define the psychic syndrome as such but did, in a private message, write, humorously, “ … you people are all insane. Ay caramba.”
I think Bruce Duensing would agree, as would several others who’ve passed by and over the posting.
Again, for me, a Roswell tease is grist for a psychological and/or sociological analysis of the people who come to (or fall for) the tease.
Roswell, by itself, as a UFO-related incident, holds no intellectual sway with me.
It is a Rorschach, that’s all.
RR
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The Roswell Flying Disk (and a good book about UFOs/Roswell)
Posted on 6:15 AM by jackline
Lynn Picknett, a former Deputy Editor of the weekly “The Unexplained” and co-author of several books about fringe topics, wrote The Mammoth Book of UFOs [Carrol Ɛt Graf, NY, 2001].
The Mammoth Book has an extensive Chapter [Three] on Roswell, Pages 193-252. Ms. Picknett provides elusive material about the Roswell event, much of it not known, even by Roswellians.
She shows gaffes by Randle/Schmitt, Friedman, Moore, Berliner et al. but also provides what they did right.
Her elaboration of the MOGUL scenario cleans up that mess for me and defuses the nonsense about the alleged missing July 4th launch that Randle and Rudiak hang their hats on.
And in the context of the time, which Don should like, she writes this:
“ …In 1947 Marcel does seem to have been genuinely mystified and excited by what he had found. But could he really have thought that a bundle of tin foil, rubber, and sticks, no matter how unfamiliar, came from a ‘flying disc’? From today’s standpoint the suggestion seems absurd. Would anyone think that a spacecraft would be constructed of such flimsy material? But it must be remembered that in 1947 ‘flying saucer’ and ‘flying disc’ were not yet synonymous with ‘alien spaceship’. [sic] They were part of a very new phenomenon, barely two weeks old, which had not yet been associated with outer space. The prevailing view was that they were some secret terrestrial device -- whether Russian or American -- and therefore could have been made of anything.” [Page 239 ff.]
I would suggest that some Roswellians get this book and review Chapter Three or find another credible accounting of the supposed 1947 incident and refresh their mucked up knowledge of what really happened.
Such a re-look at the story might dissuade the Pro-ET crowd from continuing to place misinformation online here and at such blogs as Kevin Randle's.
RR
Saturday, May 10, 2014
UFO Report (or Japanese Balloon) in Air Force Command Document -- 1945
Posted on 12:21 PM by jackline
Spanish Researcher Jose Antonio Caravaca found this Project 1947 material and thinks it's interesting, as do I:
http://www.project1947.com/ fig/1945b.htm#hanford
http://www.project1947.com/
Ufologists are a sloppy lot
Posted on 8:31 AM by jackline
Many of you know how much I denigrate the so-called “research” or investigational acumen of UFO devotees.
My plaint derives from how cavalier UFO writers and self-appointed “ufologists” are when it comes to recounting or providing details about UFO sightings.
For instance, in Harold E. Burt’s “Flying Saucers 101” [A UFO Book, published by UFO Magazine, Inc. 2000], Mr. Burt, in his account of the Lonnie Zamora/Socorro sighting, writes this:
“… the flame stopped and the craft drifted slowly over the mountains and disappeared.” [Page 284]
That statement would seem to support Anthony Bragalia’s NMIT Balloon/Hoax Theory.
But that’s not what Lonnie Zamora reported, as provided in Officer Zamora’s verbatim account, found in The Hynek UFO Report [Barnes & Noble, NY, 1997] where we find this, from Officer Zamora:
“Object was traveling very fast … The object seemed to lift up slowly and to get small in the distance very fast.” [Page 218]
And in that same transcript, Office Zamora said:
"After fell by the car and glasses fell off, kept running...Object was traveling very fast...I ran back to my car and as I ran back, I kept an eye on the object. I picked up my glasses (I left the sunglasses on the ground), got into the car..." [Page 218]
"After fell by the car and glasses fell off, kept running...Object was traveling very fast...I ran back to my car and as I ran back, I kept an eye on the object. I picked up my glasses (I left the sunglasses on the ground), got into the car..." [Page 218]
Some “ufologists” ignore this statement, which indicates that Officer Zamora saw the object leaving without wearing his prescriptive lenses, so his observation is beclouded by that fact.
David Rudiak, a doctor of Optometry, failed to note this for many years until I broached the matter at UFO UpDates in 2004.
Mrs. Hill initially said they had noses like famous comedian/actor Jimmy Durante – a large proboscis.
Her statement is always ignored, replaced by “ufologists” who want her beings to conform to the no nose physiognomy of their ET visitors, The Greys.
There are other gaffes or deliberate misrepresentations, many in the debris stories now being addressed at various blogs and in anticipation of a disclosure about what the Dee Proctor relatives are said to holding (from the 1947 Roswell crash).
Yes, as French über-skeptic Gilles Fernandez often writes: “That’s ufology.”
N.B. David Rudiak caught my errant syntax in the Zamora eyeglass account and I thank him. I've emended the copy above to make my point correctly.
N.B. David Rudiak caught my errant syntax in the Zamora eyeglass account and I thank him. I've emended the copy above to make my point correctly.
RR
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Roswell, Lincoln LaPaz, and Green Fireballs
Posted on 9:00 AM by jackline
The LIFE magazine article, Have We Visitors From Space? [1952] had this (according to Wikipedia):
The article also described LaPaz's UFO sighting near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 10, 1947, about the same time as the famous Roswell UFO incident. LaPaz, however, remained anonymous. Also described was a 1949 UFO sighting by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto (Life magazine article).
That LaPaz UFO sighting wasn’t of a green fireball, but an unidentified thing in the sky.
However, almost two years later we have this [Wikipedia is the source]:
On January 30 the brightest and most widely seen green fireball sighting occurred near Roswell, New Mexico. The next day, the FBI was informed by Army and Air Force intelligence that flying saucers and the fireballs were classified top secret. LaPaz interviewed hundreds of witnesses, with help from the FBI and military intelligence, and again tried to recover fragments by triangulating a trajectory, but was again unsuccessful.
Again, I conjecture – was the Green Fireball epidemic of 1949 (and subsequent years into the early 1950s) part of a reconnaissance of the New Mexico area whose purpose was to locate a downed flying disk (and its crew – an evolved living, mobile, intelligent plant crew?) – the Roswell incident?
The farfetchery of my “thesis” can be easily dismissed, but what if we could reverse-calculate, using a speed-of-light constant, to locate a possible area of space from which such a spate of probes might originate?
(Either the probes came from outer space or another dimension or parallel universe, the non-space venues making the matter problematical of course.)
I think it was Don, making a comment at Kevin Randle’s blog, that it seems unlikely a space-traveling culture or civilization would be unfamiliar with lightning, the atmospheric phenomenon thought to have brought down the Roswell “saucer.”
But that’s a specious observation. Another planet (or moon) may not have lightning such as that which occurs on Earth. A dry, unstormy planet would be devoid of weather such as we experience here on Earth, thus precluding any knowledge of such a phenomenon as lightning.
Visitors from such an unweathering planet would have no way of countering the vicissitudes of Earth’s weather and could have experienced a disaster such as is predicated by Roswellians.
Our friend Bruce Duensing thinks that the Green Fireballs were an atmospheric phenomenon and elaborately supported his view with commentary.
But if that were the case, why has there been no plentitude recurring of such sightings?
Yes, Anthony Bragalia and the internet provide other Green Meteor or Fireball sightings, extant or relatively current, but those sightings have nowhere the number that occurred for the short period of 1949-1952 (or so).
The Green Fireball events, that consumed astronomer LaPaz and the United States military were unique, and connected to the Roswell incident, perhaps, or something else, one might argue, pertinent to the period, such as the Atomic testings of the time, although no fireballs were prevalent for the atomic testings of the late 950s or those in the South Pacific regions where testings took place.
No, the Green Fireball sightings are connected to Roswell, and the “incident” that happened there in July 1947.
That the fireballs appeared in 1949 and for a while after that provide clues to the whereabouts of the flying saucer/UFO source: Titan, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, or some farther flung planet in the galaxy?
(The two year time lag obviates a need to look too far away in the Galaxy. The source is closer than one might think.)
RR
Watch The Universe form!
Posted on 7:36 AM by jackline
Here's a video link showing a visual of what it looked like when The Universe formed:
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-illustris-universe-model-20140506-story.html
I'm still a Hoyle Steady State believer, which is passe as hell I know but more sensible, to me, than a universe beginning from a dot, ex nihilo.
RR
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-illustris-universe-model-20140506-story.html
I'm still a Hoyle Steady State believer, which is passe as hell I know but more sensible, to me, than a universe beginning from a dot, ex nihilo.
RR
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Those Green Fireballs
Posted on 9:38 AM by jackline
A reference to the Green Fireball phenomenon (mostly of the 40s and 50s) at Kevin Randle’s blog invites conjecture about what they were.
I could say they are the chlorophyll packets from the living plant pilots of UFOs, but that would be a jest.
The green fireball sightings, along with the Scully book, provoked my interest in flying saucers (and UFOs).
While the preponderance of the green fireball sightings abated in the mid-1950s (Wikipedia mentions a 1983 and 2011 sighting), their mystery remains.
Astronomer Lincoln LaPaz who studied the things didn’t or couldn’t come to a resolution as to what the fireballs were.
Were they “drones” looking for the alleged downed disk at Roswell or surveillance objects as Robert Hastings suggests?
Even with a rather serious investigational thrust, nothing has been discerned as to their nature or essence.
This is symptomatic of the whole UFO enigma: the objects defy explanation.
But the green fireballs do seem to have been reconnoitering, over a specific area (the Southwest United States). Why?
We can never know it seems.
RR
Friday, May 2, 2014
NASA's Rover captures UFO in Mars sky?
Posted on 4:44 AM by jackline
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Roswell Mogul Balloon Explanation: A Cover-Up by Anthony Bragalia
Posted on 6:07 AM by jackline
A physicist and meteorologist who was interviewed as part of the Roswell UFO crash investigation conducted by the US Air Force may have had far more influence and knowledge about the matter than has ever been realized. Rather than simply being one among many that were interviewed for the Air Force investigation (resulting in two official debunking reports issued in the 1990s) the scientist may have played an ongoing and far more secret role in forming the reports’ conclusions.
- It is now known that the scientist, Charles B. Moore (who spent his last years trying to debunk Roswell) was lying when he denied that he did not know the codename (Mogul) used by military for his work on classified Air Force sponsored balloon-borne radiation detection research. It was an unaccounted for, crashed Mogul balloon train that was proffered as the Air Force’s explanation for the reports of a crashed UFO near Roswell, NM in July, 1947. The details on this deception are recounted below.
- And this author has recently discovered passages from a previously ignored interview with Moore conducted twenty five years ago that appears in a little-mentioned Roswell book from the UK. This never-before-discussed interview provides unquestionable proof that Moore knew what the Air Force’s Roswell investigation’s conclusions would be before anyone else. Moore knew that the Air Force was going to address the issue of strange bodies found at the site in a then yet-to-be published report. Incredibly, he was made aware of what the Air Force’s explanation would beyears before the public was told of the ”aliens as crash test dummies” explanation and well before any official report on the matter was ever issued.
MOORE THE COLLUDER
Charles Moore and Balloon, 1940s
Tim Shawcross is the author of books including Men of Honour and The War Against the Mafia. His has experience in British television as a series editor, director and producer. He has worked for the BBC, Granada Television, Thames Television and UK’s Channel Four on programming including This Week, Secret History and Panorama. His documentaries include Mountbatten and Chernobyl: The Inside Story.
Shawcross indicates that in 1994, while researching the Roswell crash, he had an opportunity to interview Charles Moore at length about subjects including balloons and the crash. Shawcross, wrote in his book The Roswell File something that was very revealing. Completed the year before the release of the second Air Force Roswell study, The Roswell Report: Case Closed ( in which crash test dummies dropped from the skies were said to account for the ‘alien bodies’ found on the desert floor) Shawcross relates:
“I interviewed Charles Moore and asked his reaction to the fact that many people had reported accounts of ‘dead aliens’. (Moore responded) ‘True –people reported…but that I think is another story and something there may be more on later but it nothing to do with what we were flying.’ (Note: the two had earlier been discussing the possibility of the crash being resultant from a secret experimental plane .)
When I telephoned him from the UK some weeks later and asked whether he could give me any further information on what he meant by that somewhat cryptic remark, he responded by saying that he had been in touch with the Pentagon and that we should expect in 1995 or 1996 another announcement from the Air Force which would contain more details, in the form of an entirely new report. This would finally explain all the accounts of strange bodies at Roswell.
As I continued to press him, Moore became increasingly agitated, saying that he had already said more than he should, and he then ended the conversation rather abruptly. When I telephoned him again, he was even more curt and he seemed distinctly worried that he had mentioned to me as much as he had.”
Shawcross then notes on page 165) of the book, “no second Air Force report has yet emerged.” Still, Shawcross seemed confident that Moore had foreknowledge that one would be produced. And indeed it was, just as Moore had predicted!
Aerial Test Dummy
That is to say:
At least three years before the anthropomorphic “crash test dummies” explanation was offered to the public to account for what the Roswell witnesses really saw and misconstrued as alien bodies, Charles Moore had already been apprised by the Pentagon that the body issue would be “dealt with.” It would come out, he said , in an all- new, second Air Force report that would be released in the next two years or so. At the time of the writing and completion of Shawcross’s The Roswell File book, the Air Force had yet to even indicate that they would be putting forth a second report on the crash. Moore knew in 1994 what would only become “known” in 1997!
There is only one reason that Moore would have known years before what the Air Force would tell the public about bodies. He was colluding with the Air Force since the very beginning in creating viable alternate explanations for both the crash materials and bodies. It is strikingly clear from what has been found in Shawcross’ book that Moore maintained high-level contacts at the Pentagon and that he was being kept apprised of the government’s Roswell investigation as it was occurring. It is likely that rather than just having been an interviewee for the Air Force’s inquiry, Moore was actively collaborating with the Pentagon to develop false explanations and conclusions about the Roswell crash.
In reviewing his interview with Moore some weeks previous, Shawcross felt compelled to contact Moore again about Moore’s enigmatic remarks and prediction of a new Roswell Air Force report. The elderly Moore seemed horrified at himself that he had “slipped up” and had said too much to Shawcross. The implications of what he had related to Shawcross had suddenly dawned on him. And Moore, a man who had previously been very cordial and cooperative, suddenly had become flustered and abrupt with him. He knew that Shawcross’ next questions would invariably have been: “Why is the Pentagon privately keeping you informed about their Roswell work? What is your real role with them and Roswell?”
We must also wonder: Was Moore receiving direction from the Pentagon as a pawn? Or was he providing advice to them as an expert? Or both? Did Moore hold Top Secret clearance levels that made his utility to the Air Force easier to access? It is likely. As a life-long researcher and Professor in Atmospheric Science and related disciplines, Moore was affiliated with Universities including the Atmospheric Department at New Mexico Tech. A portion of his work throughout his life was sponsored research. This work was sometimes classified and military and government contracted.
MOORE THE LIAR
Charles Moore Pictured with a Mogul Reflector
Over the years various accusations have been levied against Moore by researchers. Among them is that Moore’s Mogul balloon trajectory premise was false or at best disingenuous. But there is something Moore said which can only be construed as a falsehood:
For years Moore had maintained to researchers that he was entirely unaware of the codename used by the military for a balloon radiation detection system to be used over the Soviet Union that he had helped to test and implement. This was Project Mogul. He insisted that it was not until 1992 that he was made aware of the actual name of the project by the late researcher Robert Todd.
However pioneering investigator Brad Sparks proved this untrue some seven years ago. Sparks wrote:
“Moore claims that he never even knew the supersecret "MOGUL" project codename while he himself worked in MOGUL in the late 40's, had no idea there was a MOGUL codename for what he had been doing until Bob Todd contacted him and revealed it to him in 1992 or thereabouts. Moore uses this bullshit story to support his claim that MOGUL was so compartmented and supersecret in 1947 that that helps explain why it took so long to come up with the MOGUL balloon explanation for Roswell, and how Roswell 509th would know nothing about MOGUL, how other activities at White Sands would have known nothing of MOGUL, etc.
In fact this is just another of Moore's bold-faced lies through his teeth: Moore had in his own files a May 12, 1949, letter from White Sands PIO and Navy Unit commander, Cdr. Mclaughlin, to Dr. James Van Allen, discussing how CHARLES B. MOORE HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF "PROJECT MOGUL" there at White Sands. Moore had this letter in his own files all along and had even shared a copy with McDonald back in 1968!!” (Dr. James McDonald was a Moore associate and atmospheric scientist.)
Here is a link to the incriminating letter, found on researcher David Rudiak’s website:
THE TRUTH ABOUT MOORE
When we combine Moore’s ongoing relationship with the Pentagon about Roswell (and his knowledge years before of a report to deal with the bodies) with his known deceptions, we must now discount entirely his value in having provided any forthright answers to what really happened at Roswell. Moore passed in 2010. Some say that we should not speak ill of the dead. But we must speak the truth about them. And the truth is that Charles “CB” Moore knew much more. For the Pentagon to keep Moore abreast of what none of us would learn until years later is telling. The Air Force wanted both a stooge and someone who could actively help to create revisionist history about Roswell. They found both in a man named Moore.
AJB
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