Dismissing David Rudiak

In my analysis of the Dworshak book about his alleged space visitor contacts in 1932 through to the 1960s, I noted some of the inconsistencies in the “memoir.”

David Rudiak countered with a half-baked ramble about wheat production for North Dakota and the non-drought of 1936!

I went looking for a rainy period for 1932 to show that the Dworshak boys couldn’t have been traipsing about the countryside if it were raining.

What I found was that the 1932 period for Killdeer, North Dakota was a drought season which anyone can find by paying $19.95 for the weather records of Killdeer via weather-warehouse.com.

Mr. Rudiak assumes that a rainy period for 1936 applies to the year 1932 and offers a link to the 1936 records, which are not only irrelevant but non-accessible. (He hoped that no one could check out his source.)

One of the RRRGroup fellows is a farmer, from a well-known and successful farm family in northern Indiana.

He confirmed what I wrote (and Bruce Duensing supplemented) about farm boys being tethered to the farm, during a drought or rainy period, or any other time, to do chores, contravening Mr. Dworshak’s commentary about going to see his ship every few days, in the evening when chores are being wrapped up for farmers with the help of their sons (and sometimes daughters).

But that’s not the crux of my criticism about the “memoir.”

There are other remembrances that don’t ring true. For instance…

At one point Mr. Dworshak write about seeing the space ship later in life while he was driving along a country road.

He parked his car when he saw the ship land, and decided to walk to the landing site.

To find his way back, as it was nightfall, he put his car’s parking lights on then walked three miles to the landing site, with another mile down a valley to get to the ship.

Now what car’s parking lights would help anyone from three or four miles away, in a forest area, even if they were traveling in a straight line? (Mr. Dworshak was following a winding lane with trees and bushes, certainly not conducive to a line-of-sight parking light signal.)

Such “details” found by reading the story causes a sensible person to use their critical faculties.

Mr. Rudiak doesn’t do that.

He presumes that Mr. Dworshak’s tale is an ET event and defends it as gospel, as he does with any UFO event (Roswell, Socorro, et al.), often splitting hairs and misusing or converting “facts” to fit his ET obsession.

I didn’t dismiss Mr. Dworshak’s account, out of hand. I merely showed what didn’t add up for me, and what may have caused him to produce his tale.

Maybe he did meet space visitors from another galaxy, in a ship that roamed the whole Earth by itself, to keep track of ecological and social disruptions.

But the story has holes and common sense orders one to set it aside as meaningless as it exists.

Taking a potshot at me for claiming farm facts, and twisting the weather statistics I found by using non-pertinent data causes me to doubt all other “facts” that Mr. Rudiak has provided over the years, at his web-site and in commentary at other sites.

Mr. Rudiak has done this before, with my assertions and conjectures.

For some reason, my thinking, as obtuse as it may be, causes him angst and nervousness.

I could provide a psychoanalytic but won’t.

Let’s just say that I dismiss Mr. Rudiak’s criticisms as lunatic.

RR 

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CIA takes credit (or blame) for early UFO sightings...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/31/cia-ufos-it-was-us_n_6400140.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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Wishing our (lurking and) active readers a .....

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Project Moondust and Operation Blue Fly

UFO Journalist Leslie Kean has a 2002 paper, subtitled:

PROJECT MOONDUST AND OPERATION BLUE FLY: THE RETREIVAL [sic] OF OBJECTS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

These excerpts come from that paper and intrigue. (We have the whole paper but as it is copyrighted, I can't provide it here, but you might find it online, via Google.)

In 1968, Project Moon Dust recovered four unknown objects in Nepal. Also in 1968, a “dome-shaped object” with no identification marks was retrieved underwater off Cape Town, South Africa. The metal object had been subjected to extreme heat and showed no signs of corrosion. NASA determined it was made of “almost pure aluminum” and stated that the NASA analysis of the sample and photographs “does not otherwise provide a clue as to its origin or function although it is possible it is a space object of US origin.”

In 1970, Moon Dust investigated a metal sphere that fell “with three loud explosions and then burned for five days” in South America. It had “ports” which had been melted closed. A May 1970 State Department document describes a fallen, unidentified object in Bolivia, depicted in the newspapers as metal and egg-shaped. The Department expresses a desire to assist the Bolivian Air Force in the investigation. “The general region had more than its share of reports of UFOs this past week,” the document notes. It says that Panama and Paraguay checked with appropriate government agencies and “no direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth’s atmosphere near May 6 can be made.”

There is little follow-up on such alleged retrievals, as ufologists are generally inept at research of UFO events.

But there seems to be grist for study in such notations, as those from Ms. Kean's paper.

RR

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An Odd But Interesting UFO Contact Story

While reading an archive blotch, I found this tidbit in an internet-capture:

Australian Centre for UFO Studies

Issue # 3, June 2005

Editor : Sheryl Gottschall
info@acufos.asn.au
www.acufos.asn.au

"The Contact Story of the Dworshak Brothers As reported at the Ozark 2004 UFO conference, Timothy Good tells the contact story of Leo and Mike Dworshak that began in 1932 while living in North Dakota. Initially they saw a huge round silvery UFO with many coloured lights land in a valley near their home. These UFOs had very human looking occupants who the boys eventually communicated with over time. These ETs told the boys they had travelled to Earth for over 5000 years and were from a place far beyond our own by millions of years in time. Thus began an incredible story of ET contact, telepathic communication, ET control of time and space and their reasons for visiting planet Earth."

One of the boys wrote, later in life [2003] a book about the encounter(s) which can be found here:

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Are-Us-Take-Word/dp/0805958681

Note how readers of the book accept the account(s) as rendered by Leo Dworshak.

Do we have a UFO tale that is real or an accumulated fantasy?

You decide.

RR

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NASA video of UFO blasting off of Sun?

http://www.inquisitr.com/1702452/ufo-nasa-sun/

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Nine horrible places (where UFOs have never been seen)

http://www.answers.com/article/1257487/most-terrifying-places-on-earth?param4=ysa-us-de-lifestyle#slide=1

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"Planets" really close by where ET may live.....

http://news.yahoo.com/could-dwarf-planet-ceres-support-life-110942665.html

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From our academic friend, Bryan Sentes: The Search for ET -- How close are we?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26733-the-search-for-et-how-close-are-we.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2014-GLOBAL-hoot#.VJnU2ksBds

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The Happiest of Holidays to our readers and UFO friends

Merry Christmas:

And Happy Hanukkah:

RR (and the boys)

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The Proceedings of The Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop [1999]

This is a photo of some real UFO researchers, a few gone to their heavenly reward and a few about to.

If you can find the Sign paper online, do so; it was an important, meaningful attempt to address the UFO phenomenon, something not really being done nowadays.

(We have the paper, but since its copyrighted, I can't offer it up here, but I do thank Bernard Thouanel, who was integral to the SIGN proceedings and gave me permission to show his photograph of the group.)

RR

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UFO in 1971 NASA film of Moon mission?

http://www.inquisitr.com/1698431/ufo-spotted-in-apollo-15-nasa-moon-mission-photo-from-44-years-ago-apollo-12-also/

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The construction material of UFOs?

https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/stronger-steel-material-could-change-world-170000764.html

Or not:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-question

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An abduction account (from our previous UFO incarnation -- 2005)

In the November 1977 issue of UFO Report, Jerome (Jerry) Clark recounts an abduction case that is intriguing in a number of ways.

The event occurred in min-June 1969 to a couple (whose real names were not disclosed in Mr. Clark’s rendering) as they traveled from Minnesota  to Los Angeles, with their encounter taking place southwest of Salt Lake City.

The couple, during hypnotic sessions, told of being taken aboard an alien craft by insect-like beings, with features similar to some of those described by Betty and Barney Hill after their 1961 “abduction.”

The sessions, on tape, were presented pretty much by Mr. Clark in his article. Clark was baffled by the encounter as it was related by the couple, but accepted it as a true account; something truly bizarre happened to the duo, as it had to the Hills but the details were so strange that Clark could only raise the ongoing (to this day) questions about such encounters, “What is it? What can we do about it? What happens next?”

What strikes this writer is that the couple said they saw a “fish-shaped craft, with a fin, a flat bottom, and a red light on top of the front hump.”

Driving to escape this craft, they came upon a camper at a rest stop with a figure dressed in a white rubbery suit that made it look like a snowman with “roundish head” and jointless arms and legs.

Driving hurriedly away they apparently came upon the camper later on down the road, but what the female member of the two saw in the camper window was absolutely weird and frightening: two entities in black leather suits, wearing black leather gloves – they didn’t have heads, just “dim outlines of heads” and no mouths, just “Cheshire cat-like expressions of leering ‘evil grins.’”

When the couple agreed to hypnotic sessions, between 1974 and 1975 – with one of the tapes lost by Mr.Clark (or taken he hints) – they told of events that parallel the Hills’ case.

The man in the encounter saw, as had Barney Hill, a being in the UFO when he first spotted it.

The couple experience a tingling feeling as they were being transported aboard the craft where they found themselves in a round, domed, clear room – white with gauges.

The beings in the room with them had large heads, no hair, and looked like insects, with big, green colored eyes, and green colored mouths. They were “working dials.”

Their eyes partly circled their heads (like those in Barney Hill’s drawing of the beings he and Betty were taken by), and gave a grasshopper appearance.

No communication except for a low humming sound and a kind of telepathy.

The beings wore a kind of uniform, white in color.

And the thing they saw at the camper – the white snowman – appeared, and it was then realized that the couple’s abduction took place when they saw that figure at the camper and the period from that sighting to their escape by driving away produced a period of lost time, during which they had their abduction encounter.

The story is rather interesting in a number of ways, but one little thing stands out; the couple was not married but the woman’s ex-husband had introduced her to the man she was now aligned with.

Betty and Barney Hill were a mixed race couple, as you know.

Do “abductions” come to those persons who have a singularly out-of-the-norm relationship or some other psycho-social quirk?

Maybe alleged abductees can tell us what their quirk is, if any. This may be the clue to the abduction phenomenon which, for all intents and purposes, seems to be a strange event, but one that cannot be explained in ordinary, prosaic terms, or understood by those terms, or any others for that matter.

RR

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Wilhelm Reich: Nuts about UFOs

From:

http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/reich_816.html

16 August 1999

Wilhelm Reich's Contact With Space
By Robert Scott Martin (Staff Writer)

On January 28, 1954, Wilhelm Reich "happened accidentally to
observe two bright yellow-orange lights moving in front of a
mountain range toward a lake." The encounter was the opening
salvo of a "war" with UFOs that would occupy the final phases of
Reich's troubled medical and scientific career.

At the time, Reich, a trained psychoanalyst who had once
belonged to Sigmund Freud's inner Vienna circle, was already
facing what he called "emotional and physical misery" caused by
his more terrestrial battle with the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration over the use of "orgone," a controversial form of
ambient "life energy" he claimed to have discovered.

Reich found an inexhaustible range of uses for his discovery,
touting orgone as everything from the secret of antigravity to a
tool for weather control, especially rainmaking. Most
importantly, he found that he could use orgone to "interfere"
with UFOs.

But to the FDA, orgone simply did not exist, rendering Reich's
orgone-based therapies prosecutable under quackery statutes.
Even today, four decades after the controversy, Reichian
therapists claim to be able to manipulate the energy for a wide
variety of healing effects, including the cure for cancer,
without resorting to drugs, radiation or chemicals. Instead,
Reichians work to build up a current of orgone within the
patient's vicinity in order to strengthen and heal the
underlying life force itself.

Nevertheless, Reich's legal fight with the FDA ended with his
death in prison after defying a federal injunction against the
use of orgone for medical purposes.

Whatever the official status of his medical theories, Reich
expected a response when he wrote to the U.S. Air Force about
his UFO sighting. He reasoned that "the U.S. Air Force is the
natural organization in the Western world responsible" for
dealing with such phenomena because "it operates in the
atmosphere and watches the frontier upward toward outer space."
When the military didn't deal with his report to his
satisfaction, Reich took matters into his own hands.

The encounter and the Air Force

In his letter to the Air Force, reproduced in his last book,
Contact With Space, Reich described his sighting as "a brightly
shining light" moving from west to east through the forest
outside Rangeley, Maine. A second, similar phenomenon soon
joined the first, both moving steadily in front of Spotted
Mountain. He concluded that the objects were not stars due to
their course and the mountain intervening between their apparent
motion and the sky, but the possibility that they were military
vehicles or other objects of a terrestrial type did not seem to
occur to him.

At around the same time, Reich's secretary, Ilse Ollendorff,
also reported seeing "a similar, but brighter and bigger,
because closer, object." Like the aerial phenomena observed by
Reich, Ollendorff's sighting hovered in front of a mountain, but
then "was seen rising once vertically upward, settling down
again and then disappearing."

The Air Force, for its part, was either unaware of Reich's
running battle with the FDA, or was intrigued enough by his
encounter to overlook the controversy. Lt. Steven J. Hebert,
stationed at the Presque Isle Air Force Base, wrote back telling
Reich that the "subject officer notified this organization to
take whatever action necessary, since this unit is interested in
investigating unidentified aerial phenomena."

Hebert enclosed a copy of Technical Information Sheet Form A,
the Air Force's UFO reporting questionnaire, for Reich and
Ollendorff to fill out and return. As Contact With Space
ruefully notes, Reich received the letter only five days before
the FDA obtained the injunction forbidding the distribution of
orgone equipment as medical devices.

Reich returned the questionnaire along with a copy of a short
essay, "Survey on Ea," providing background on other unusual
occurrences around the Orgonon research facility, including the
revelation that friends had told Reich "of saucers having been
seen over Orgonon in 1951." However, he had taken little
personal interest in the reports until 1953, when his discovery
of Keyhoe's book made him wonder whether UFOs - or, in his
terminology, "Enigma Alpha" or "Ea" - might be propelled by
orgone.

The Air Force did not reply, perhaps put off by the impenetrable
nature of the "basic orgonometric equations" included as an
appendix to "Survey on Ea." In the book, Reich includes a rather
coyly self-important note saying "not all can be revealed" about
his relationship with the Air Force, but there is no evidence in
Contact With Space that Reich was in communication with the
military until October, a full six months later.

Instead, during that time, Reich writes that he busied himself
with appealing the FDA injunction and preparing a research trip
to Arizona, where he hoped to investigate the role played by
orgone reactions in the formation of deserts.

Watching for hostile signs in the sky

In looking toward space to explain his sighting, Reich showed
himself to be anything but an uncontaminated witness. Like most
U.S. citizens in the 1950s, exposed to years of speculation that
flying saucers were not native to the Earth, Reich already
believed that unknown aerial phenomena were, in his words, most
likely "contacts with visitors from outer space."

Reich was familiar with Donald Keyhoe's groundbreaking 1953 book
Flying Saucers from Outer Space, leaving him predisposed to look
for extraterrestrial explanations for the unknown lights weaving
across the sky near his Maine research facility. Moreover, the
fact that he had seen 'War of the Worlds' only three weeks
before reporting his sighting was also likely a contributing
factor - as Reich called the film "a rather realistic approach
to the planetary emergency," it evidently made quite an
impression.

Furthermore, the cultural climate of the 1950s not only
predisposed Reich to look beyond the Earth, but to look for
evidence that his UFOs were engaged in "warlike" behavior.

The threat of war was in the air, both in Reich's embattled
personal life and in the broader political framework. The Keyhoe
book popularized several apparently hostile encounters between
Air Force pilots and unidentified aerial phenomena, while no
less a personage than General Douglas MacArthur would warn only
a year after Reich's sighting that "all countries on Earth will
have to unite to ... make a common front against attack by
people on other planets."

With that in mind, the Austrian refugee, who had fled to the
United States from the Nazis, considered it not only a
scientific but a patriotic duty to alert Air Force Intelligence
to the encounter at once.

This policy of full disclosure was typical to Reich, who had
taken care to keep the White House informed about developments
in orgone research since 1951. While his critics point to this
as another symptom of what long-time skeptic Martin Gardner
called Reich's "paranoid egoism," Reich himself seems to have
considered the matter a "major responsibility" and seems to have
downplayed the potential uses of his encounter as a self-
promotional vehicle.

Just before the war with the UFOs

In May, however, Reich made an accidental discovery that a few
Air Force officers, including General Harold Watson, chief of
intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, would find very
interesting.

As Reich was scanning the sky with a "cloudbuster," a device he
had designed to draw orgone out of the sky in order to induce
rain, he saw a star "fade out" in the presence of three other
witnesses. He pointed the cloudbuster pipes at a second blinking
light, which also faded in brightness. Meanwhile, the first star
reasserted itself once the cloudbuster was pointed away from it.

Reich repeated the experiment three more times in quick
succession, reporting identical effects each time. As it was
scientifically impossible that his device could have interacted
with actual stars - even in orthodox Reichian literature, the
cloudbuster's range was measured in kilometers, not lightyears -
- he concluded that his device had interfered with two UFOs.

Having concluded that his cloudbuster could also function as a
"spacegun," Wilhelm Reich began to outfit his Arizona expedition
as though preparing for a war with outer space.

In October 1954, Wilhelm Reich was under siege. Not only had the
Food and Drug Administration stripped him of his livelihood, but
almost daily UFO sightings were leaving his friends and family
exhausted and frightened.

"There is no doubt that I am at war" with the UFOs, Reich wrote
hours after four bright pulsating lights hovered for hours over
Orgonon, his research facility in rural Maine. "What seemed only
a possibility one year ago is certainty now."

The UFOs had been menacing Orgonon since Reich began experiments
with super-charging his "cloudbuster" weather-control device
with small amounts of radioactive material. Reich had learned in
May that the cloudbuster not only apparently pulled rain out of
clouds, but also drained energy from lights in the sky, making
it, in his words, a "spacegun" effective against UFOs.

Like the cloudbuster, the Austrian psychiatrist turned "natural
scientist" was convinced, UFOs operated on orgone, an ambient
energy source that interacts with life and organic matter.
Reich's claims to the contrary, the FDA had determined that
orgone did not exist, and so had obtained an injunction against
any medical treatment purporting to effect cures through orgone
manipulation.

However, Reich stayed devoted to the reality of his discovery.
He trained the "spacegun" on two aerial objects as they hovered
ominously over Orgonon, causing both to retreat. One
"disappeared after weakening, waning and blinking, leading Reich
to conclude triumphantly that "tonight, for the first time in
the history of man, the war waged for ages by living beings from
outer space upon this Earth... was reciprocated."

As above, so below. On that same day, Reich informed the
authorities in Portland that he would resume his orgone-oriented
publishing efforts. This defiance would lead to his death in
prison less than three years later.

An odd meeting with Air Force Intelligence

Reich, convinced that the aliens were waging their "war" against
Earth by poisoning its orgone, creating deserts, decided to test
his spacegun in the drought-wracked wastes north of Tucson, AZ.
According to his final book, Contact With Space, it had not
rained in Tucson for 5 years, making the desert a perfect
proving ground for both the cloudbuster's rainmaking and UFO-
weakening abilities.

Meanwhile, in order to share his findings with the Air Force,
Reich sent his assistant William Moise ahead to Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. As Reich bitterly noted, Orgonon
"had received no direct help from the Air Force, financial or
otherwise," but he remained eager to keep the military posted on
the extraterrestrial-combat uses of orgone.

Moise, however, got a guarded reception at Wright-Patterson.
General Harold Watson, chief of Air Force Intelligence, had
initially seemed eager to speak with Moise about Reich's claim
to have "disabled" two UFOs, even insisting that Moise could
arrive late in the day and the two men could "continue the
conference after supper."

Travelling cross-country, Moise was concerned that accidental
factors could get in the way of the meeting and confirmed his
appointment with Watson twice. Still, by the time he got to
Dayton, Watson was unavailable due to "unexpected important
business."

Instead, a "Dr. W. H. Byers" and Harry Haberer greeted Moise at
the base. Moise hated Byers on first sight, calling him "a man
with a flabby handshake and eyes that don't look at you." As
Watson had expressed concern that a group from the CIA would be
visiting that week, it is a tantalizing possibility that Byers
was a member of that delegation. Haberer, meanwhile, is known to
UFO research as "a crack Air Force public relations man."

Moise refused to talk to the two men and instead waited until
the next day, when he briefed the base's deputy commander, who
reportedly became "excited" by the revelation of a weapon
against UFOs. Haberer and Byers were apparently less impressed,
but took notes.

The battle of Tucson begins

According to Reich, the Air Force continued its tacit interest
in his work, sending numerous jets to fly by his cloudbusting
experiments but making no overt gestures because the spacegun
was "hot because it wasn't official, and the reason it wasn't
official was because it was so hot."

When his group arrived in Tucson from heavily-wooded Maine on
October 19, they were shocked by the Arizona desert, which was
apparently much more severe than it is today. "We were impressed
by the bare ground, giving a general impression of whiteness,
hardness," Reich wrote. "The river beds had all been dry for
about 50 years... no prairie grass was to be seen anywhere."

Over the next few weeks, the party - composed of Reich, his
daughter Eva and son Peter, Moise and another assistant --
suffered almost immediately from dehydration, exhaustion and
general discomfort, all of which they attributed to poisonous
"deadly orgone radiation." However, harassment from UFOs was
sporadic but persistent, leading Reich to theorize that the
"thirsty" aerial phenomena were actively fighting his rainmaking
efforts.

The researchers fought back throughout November, apparently
encouraging a rich growth of winter prairie grass but no rain.
Transportation difficulties had forced Reich to leave his supply
of radioactive material behind at Orgonon, leaving the
cloudbusters at a sharp disadvantage against the UFOs. Without
the radioactive charge, Reich's team could only annoy the lights
in the sky but not hinder their inscrutable activity in any real
sense.

Meanwhile, the UFOs kept making the researchers miserable. One
of Reich's assistants suffered a "breakdown" while training his
cloudbuster on the sky, forcing him to return to his family for
a month of recuperation. In his absence, Reich speculated that
the man had drawn too much poisonous orgone from a lurking alien
object.

By December 7, Reich decided it was time to strengthen his hand
by sending for his radioactive hole card, two radium needles
charged with orgone. After a plane trip marked by misadventure
and bad weather, the needles arrived a week later.

"A planetary Valley Forge"

Once Reich had his radium, he was ready to retake the offensive
against the UFOs and the desert simultaneously.

"On December 14, about 16:30 hours, a full-scale interplanetary
battle came off," he wrote. "A battle which would have appeared
incredible as well as incomprehensible to anyone who knew
nothing about the (UFO) problems or who adhered to the illusion"
that neither UFOs nor orgone existed.

First, the Orgonon team had to shake off "a special kind of
deadly orgone attack" that left them "in very bad shape...
sick... dulled, somehow out of balance." A "tremendous black
cloud, looking like smoke from a huge fire" grew over Tucson,
eventually taking on an angry reddish-purple coloration and
triggering readings of 100,000 counts per minute on Reich's
geiger counter. All of the researchers "suffered from nausea,
quivering, pain in the upper abdomen and discoloration of
movements," while "about a dozen Air Force planes of various
kinds" flew over the team's camp.

Matters of orgone, beneficial or poisonous, aside, Reich's
description of the event is reminiscent of a nuclear bomb test:
a strong military presence, radiation, smoke, queasiness.
However, it is unlikely that the government would set off a bomb
apparently targeted directly on Tucson, a thriving regional
center of commerce.

Reich brought his radium needles into contact with the
cloudbusters and started firing away at the cloud to dissipate
its power. The operation took about 20 minutes, at which time
the cloud had broken up and the geiger count returned to normal.

It rained three weeks later. In the meantime, Reich's journal is
filled with dozens of UFO sightings - "red-white-blue
pulsations," "yellow pulsations," "silvery disks," "green-yellow
steady" - on which to train his spacegun sights. Most "grew
fainter," were "extinguished" or "blinked out." The grass
covering the desert grew to a height of "several inches to a
foot deep," encouraging local ranchers to drive cattle into the
region in herds.

After a brief side trip to Jacumba, CA, the team headed home to
Maine at the end of April, 1955. "Our job in Arizona was done,"
Reich said.

He was dead 18 months later, and all available copies of his
books were burned by court order. Only a few copies survived,
forcing his scattered disciples to rely on private printings of
his works - including Contact In Space - for direction.

N.B. Culled from UFO UpDates during my sojourn there.

RR

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A UFO firing a laser at the Interrnational Space Station?

http://www.inquisitr.com/1691936/ufo-laser-space-station-nasa/

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The Air Force Teleportation Physics Study [2004]

Click HERE for a PDF of a United States Air Force study of and about teleportation.

RR

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A [1956] Prelude to the Hill episode and/or Gulf Breeze?

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Mysterious photos, yet to be explained...

http://www.answers.com/article/1242587/8-mysterious-photos-that-have-yet-to-be-explained?param4=ysa-us-de-lifestyle

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The Psychosocial Aspect of the UFO phenomenon

Martin Kottmeyer provided a Wikipedia link that explains further the Psychosocial interpretation of UFO sightings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial_hypothesis

This is a supplement to the Gildas Bourdas/Isaac Koi post of a few days ago in which Mr. Kottmeyer's ideas were germane.

RR

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A 1958 UFO sighting that corroborates the Trindade UFO photos....but wait, Trindade has been deemed a hoax.

From NICAP:

June 14, 1958; Pueblo, Colo. (BBU 5852)

10:46 a.m. Airport weather observer O. R. Foster, using a theodolite, sighted an object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part, silver with no metallic luster, which flew overhead. (Berliner)

From (which also has some other sightings you might find interesting):

http://www.andras-nagy.com/ufo02/07.htm

TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: June 14, 1958, at 10:46 A.M. MST/Memorial Airport at Pueblo, Colorado.

DURATION: Five minutes.

NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: One.

TYPE OF OBSERVER: Meteorologist for U. S. Weather Bureau.

NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One.

OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Excellent.

SHAPE: Like the planet Saturn with its rings tilted forward and without bottom of planet showing.

DIMENSIONS: At least 30 feet in diameter.

SOUND: None.

ALTITUDE: When UFO first appeared it was 24.2º above horizon; when it disappeared it was 8.1º above horizon: minimum altitude was at least 30,000 feet.

SPEED: Minimum of 500 miles an hour.

TACTICS: Moved across a large area of sky from almost due west to southwest.

COMMENT: Observer was an experienced meteorologist (28 years with U.S. Weather Bureau) and was observing a pilot weather balloon through his theodolite when the UFO crossed his field of view. He followed it with the optical instrument, timing its passage across the sky. It was sharply defined and definitely was not a balloon.
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It's odd that a Saturn-like UFO would appear in reality and via an alleged hoax in 1958, the hoax in January and the "actual UFO" in June.

So. were the Trindade Island photos phony or not? The matter remains moot.

RR

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From UFO UpDates [2005]: Gildas Bourdais on films provoking UFO abductions (the Hill episode particularly)

When I was active at UFO UpDates, in the 2005 time-frame, I grabbed this "conversation" between UFO researchers Issac Koi and Gildas Bourdais:

From: Gildas Bourdais
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:23:39 +0200
Subject: Re: UFO Couple Use Story To Spark Alien Abduction Fear

From: Isaac Koi
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:04:27 +0100
Subject: Re: UFO Couple Use Story To Spark Alien Abduction Fear

From: Gildas Bourdais
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 17:18:36 +0200
Subject: Re: UFO Couple Use Story To Spark Alien Abduction
Fear

Now, I wish to come back to the possible influence of SF and
UFO stories.

Hi Gildas,

Since this topic has been lingering for a couple of weeks, I
thought it might be worth my chipping in to add a few references
for anyone interested in looking into any of these aspects in
more detail.

First off, as you may know, the Martin Kottmeyer article you
mention is available on the Magonia website at the link below [no longer extant]:

http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/entirelymk.html

Isaac and all

Thank you for the link. I have read the Kottmayer article with
interest, and I would have many comments to say about it. But I
am just going to come back on some of the SF films which would
be a source of the UFO abduction "lore", according to him, and
other authors such as Kevin Randle. Well, the case seems more
and more dubious to me.

Notes on some films cited by Martin Kottmeyer in his paper
"Entirely Unpredisposed: the Cultural Background of UFO
Abductions reports", and by Kevin Randle et al. in their book
"The Abduction Enigma". The following comments are also drawn
from the "Internet Movie Database Entry", referred to by
Kottmeyer himself, and from some books about SF movies.

1953: "Invaders from Mars"

Note in the book "Yesterday's Tomorrow" by Bruce Lanier Wright
(1993): it is labelled "a kid's movie", together with "The
invisible boy (1957), "Tobor the Great", and "The 5,000 fingers
of Dr T" (p. 146). On the other hand, according to film critic
Philip Strick, in his book "Science-Fiction Movies" (1976), that
film, shot by a William Cameron Menzies (known for his pre-war
British film "Things to Come") had some artistic merits. Strick
found it to be "an ideal metaphor for the political paranoia of
the time..." (p. 14). Is that an invitation to paranoia?

Martin Kottmayer, for his part, points out that "brain implants
are featured in the movie "Invaders from Mars". But there is not
such element in the Hill's incident. So, what is the relevance
to their case? Well, he suggests one. The aliens of "Invaders
from Mars" are of rather human appearance, but with a rather big
nose, and ridiculous bulging eyes, looking like half ping-pong
balls. Kottmeyer compares them with the first description of
Betty:

"In the original nightmare, Betty compares the noses of the
aliens to Jimmy Durante. This is a very apt description of the
noses of the mutants in "Invaders from Mars". But he also notes
that Barney did not remember that, and that the detail was
"edited out by Betty in her hypnosis sessions".

What can we make of that? Could Betty have been influenced,
inconsciously, at least in her initial effort to remember the
look of her alien abductors, by a very small budget, "B grade"
movie, already height years old in 1961?

Let's admit that it cannot be completely ruled out (maybe a
vague remembrance of a movie poster?), although Betty and Barney
had no interest in such movies. In any case, this supposition
certainly does not permit to argue that she invented her story.
By the way, had they invented it together, Betty and Barney
would have been smarter to give the same description!

1954: "Killers from Space"

Comments in the "Internet Movie Database Entry": "...works
better than sleeping pills..."; and: "...one of the dullest
sci-fi movies around..."; "...a real sleeper..."; "...the only
good thing: the "bulging eyes" of the aliens". Comment of
Kottmeyer: "An abductee.. has a strange scar and a missing
memory of the alien that caused it".

But, like for the implant of "Invaders from Mars", Betty had no
scar. In fact, if she had one, it would have been an element
supporting her story! On the other hand, Barney did suffer
physically, with a circle of warts which had to be removed
surgically. Nothing like that was shown in that film or any
other of the time: so much for the influence of SF movies. 1956:
"Not of this Earth" (cited by Kevin Randle et al)

This one the very low budget movies, quickly shot in a few days
by  Roger Corman who was a specialist of the genre. Comments in
the book "Yesterday's Tomorrow" (p.142):

The Davannans suffer from a strange anemia and need constant
blood transfusions just to stay alive. Johnson, the alien
scouting the Earth as a potential source of blood, "...can
control people with a form of hypnotic telepathy, and kills his
victims with radioactive blasts from his milky-white eyes,
normally hidden beneath dark sunglasses. He then drains their
blood with an odd pump he keeps in a metal briefcase". Comment
on the alien, by P. Strick in his book "Science-Fiction Movies":
"Dedicated as he is to his mission (there is much screaming and
macabre business with tubes and bottles), it seems an inadequate
solution to a racial emergency. Aliens, to judge from the
cinema, behave somewhat irrationally in times of stress" (p.
15). Comment of Kevin Randle et al.: "Although he is not
collecting genetic material, as has been suggested of the aliens
reported by abductees, he is required to send humans to his home
world as they attempt to end the plague destroying them. The
obvious purpose is to gather genetic material." (p. 122)

But again, the same question arises: could such a low budget,
rather comical SF-Horror movie released in 1956, influence
people like the Hills? That seems a bit far fetched. And there
is no precise element, really comparable, in their story.

1956: "Earth versus Flying saucers"

Kottmeyer notes that the film "...also precedes UFO lore in
featuring an abduction in which thoughts are taken. Saucerian
abduct a general, make his head transparent, and suck out the
knowledge to store it in an Infinitely Indexed Memory Bank".

That sounds impressive! Could it inspire nightmarish fantasies
on innocent spectators, and prepare the ground for future
abduction "lore"?

The book "Yesterday's Tomorrow" (p. 106) does not see it that
way, though:

"Earth Versus" was designed to capitalize on the postwar flying
saucer craze, which began in the late forties and reached a
culmination of sorts in the great Washington D.C. flap of 1952,
when for months, it seems, residents of the city could scarcely
go out of doors without having their hats knocked off by silvery
discs from beyond" (sic!). "By the film's end, Marvin (the
heroe) devises an anti-flying saucer ray. In a thoroughly
enjoyable climax, earth's forces use the ray to foil an alien
raid on Washington D.C., and saucers crash into every
recognizable landmark larger than a mailbox".

This one does not seem to have been designed to trigger
nightmarish dreams, either. On, the contrary, it loks like an
effort treat UFOs as entertainment and to reduce the worries of
the public about them. Take it easy, folks, the situation is
under control!

1956: "It conquered the World"

Comments in the book "Yesterday's Tomorrow" (p. 108):

"... a ten-day, $80,000 quickie featuring a giant cucumber
menace..."; the invader resembles "... a conical cucumber with
muscular-looking crab claws...". "...The leaders (of a little
town) are attacked by batlike creatures produced by the alien,
that have, and I quote, "radiological electrode-type things in
their beaks". One sting from a bat-critter makes the victim a
willing slave". At the end of the film, the heroic scientist
"...kills the alien with a blowtorch..."; the book praises the
work of designer Paul Blaisdell: "While his monsters aren't
exactly convincing or frightening, they are charming, and very
much part of the history of the genre".

Here is another note on that film, from the book "A pictorial
History of Science-Fiction films", by Jeff Rovin (1975):

"From Venus came the most absurd-looking monster ever, created
by Paul Blaisdell, who should have known better, in "It
conquered the World (1956)" (p. 103). Nothing there to impress
the Hills, it seems.

1957: "Invasion of the Saucer Men"

Comments in the "Internet Movie Database Entry":
Genre: comedy/sci-fi. "It's great fun for 50's monster lovers".
Comments in the book "Yesterday's Tomorrow"(p. 110):

The film "...began as a serious (more or less) film.... During
the film production, however, it "just sort of collapsed" into a
comedy, as Blaisdell (designer of the bug-eyed monsters) put it.
The result is a weird mishmash that veers from low-grade
slapstick to some fairly gruesome, if unconvincing, violence,
all larded over with an exceptionally irritating "comic" sound
track". Further comments: a small town is invaded by
"...swollen-headed, bulging-eyed midgets from Beyond. The aliens
kill an over-curious passerby by injecting him with a lethal
dose of alcohol delivered through their needlelike claws.
Later... an alien tries this trick on a bull, and gets one of
his huge eyes bloodily gouged out. Remember, it's a comedy, so
yock it up".

Another comment: "... Saucer-Men is fairly dismal by any
objective standard. Unsurprisingly, most of the laughs to be
found here are of the unintentional variety, and so the "so-bad-
it's-good" crowd seems to have adopted the film as a, uh,
classic".

Another note on that film, from the book "A pictorial History of
Science-Fiction films", by Jeff Rovin: "Invasion of the Saucer
Men (1957) is another of those teenagers-versus-aliens films;
however, there is something to be said for this effort. It is
what amounts to a satire wherein diminutive creatures from space
inject alcohol into bloodstreams of their victims, making them
drunk; naturally, when the unfortunates run to the police,
their story of alien invaders is not believed. The creatures are
eliminated when teenagers unite and disintegrate them with the
high intensity-beams of their auto headlights".

What we have again is another low budget movie for kids which
ends well, nothing to trigger nightmarish fantasies. But lets
put back in perspective these little sci-fi-horror movies: they
were marginal productions, compared with the better known
movies of that time, and should not be granted more importance
and influence than they had.

Gildas Bourdais

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Three Uncommon [PDF] Papers on Roswell (from our archive)

Greg Fewer’s Xenoarchaeological Approach

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoarchaeologyalso.)

Kent Jeffrey’s Roswell – Anatomy of a Myth [1998]

And John Shirley’s Skeptical Believer

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This movie was prescient: Plants pilot UFOs [Redux]

The Thing (from Another World) was an intelligent carrot.

Plants are (highly) intelligent.

This book [Prentice Hall, inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1970] tells us why and how:

Plants evolved first on Earth before animals, and the DNA of plants is as close to human DNA as genomes allow.

“It [is] only a small step from the first one-celled plants to the first one-celled animals …

Even in the complex plants and animals of today the fundamental processes are the same and the genes to control them carry the same codes. Human beings are thus more like plants than you might think, and in fact, many of our genes are identical to those of the plants growing in our gardens …” [Page 15]

Page 18 provides the math for planets (not plants!) in the known Universe, postulating that after all the caveats are taken into account, 100 million evolutions could have taken place on planets with suns.

“ … how can one imagine the variety of life forms that might have come about through 100 million processes? Some would still be quite primitive while others would have advanced far beyond ourselves. If the one-in-a-thousand ratio were projected further, it would n\mean that there might be 100 thousand that had reached a stage of civilization perhaps at least the equal of our own.”

Then there is this:

“ … plants … aid …  in their own salvation …” [Page 239]

“ … plants have now been found to produce chemicals similar to juvenile hormones …” [Page 239]

“Algae, the most ancient of the earth’s flora … [have] cells … held together in colonies, and [the] most advanced are the multicellular ones such as kelp in which cells have specialized functions – some (“holdfasts”) to anchor the plant, others to form a stalk, and still others to form expanded leaflike structures.” [Pages 21-22]

These books and a video take the topic further:

With the need for chlorophyll and water, one can see why a civilization of evolved, thinking plants might seek out the Earth.

RR

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You're not a robot....

Even we have to prove we're not a robot when we leave a comment here.

Where this comes from, we don't know and we aren't able to remove the Robot requirement request (although we've checked NO in settings).

Any suggestions?

RR

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Dave Thomas' New Mexicans for Science and Reason : Socorro 1964

Click HERE for a sensible, accurate account of the Lonnie Zamora Socorro UFO sighting of 1964.

(Yes, we're obsessed by Socorro, as it represents a mundane sighting turned into a UFO cause célèbre. )

RR

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A REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON PULSE DETONATION ENGINES

Click HERE for a source or some UFO sightings?

RR

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Project Horizon

A source for vehicles mistaken as UFOs -- Socorro among them:

Project Horizon - An early study of a lunar outpost
ORDWAY, FREDERICKIIII; SHARPE, MITCHELLR; WAKEFORD, RONALDC
IAF, International Astronautical Congress, 38th, Brighton, England; 10-17 Oct. 1987. 32 p. pp. 1987

Project Horizon was a pioneering study prepared by the US Army in the late 1950s to further the exploration of space. It strived to (1) design and establish a lunar outpost from which further investigations of, and operations on, the lunar surface could be undertaken, and (2) provide a supporting capability for other operations in space. Consideration is given to the lunar outpost design and construction, scientific programs proposed to be undertaken on the moon, launch and transfer vehicles, launch facilities, and communications. Background facts on Project Horizon are also described. (K.K.)

Descriptors: lunar Bases; nasa Space Programs; project Planning; research And Development; Armed Forces (united States); Communication Satellites; Orbital Assembly; Saturn Launch Vehicles; Space Stations; Systems Engineering
 

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Aha! Found...

Back on October 28th (2014) I noted that this book mysteriously disappeared from my rooms:

I found the book today, December 7, 2014, underneath (as Robert Torres suggested) a raft of magazines and mail.....Phew!

Now, to derive from it, a posting here about the problems of and with history that also afflict Ufology and its reporting(s) of UFO sightings.

RR

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Project Sign (and evaluation by Michael Swords)

Click HERE for a PDF of Michael Swords' superb evaluation of Project Sign.

Michael Swords is a "ufologist" you can trust implicitly and always, a true academic and honest man.

RR

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More AF Insigniae (like the Socorro symbol) from Jose Caravaca

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A Monastery on the Rosetta Comet? Come on.....

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/575052/20141206/rosetta-comet-67p-alien-building-ufo-enthusiast.htm#.VILjJdLF98A

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The 1967 LOOK magazine article on the Socorro sighting

I found, in our archives, a copy of the 1967 LOOK magazine article on the Lonnie Zamora Socorro sighting of 1964. (The article came from Rense.com which created a verbatim rendition of the LOOK article.)

Click HERE to see the piece which clarifies what Officer Zamora said about his sighting. (It's a PDF.)

RR

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James Moseley's "Saucer Smear" (2005)

For those who've never seen or read the grand, snarky Saucer Smear by Jim Moseley, here's a copy (which contains something from our friend CDA -- Christopher Allen -- and a mention of our one time nemesis, Wendy Connors):

Click HERE to see how entertaining and insightful ufology used to be. (It's a PDF)

RR

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UFO sightings are a reflection of Zeitgeist

The UFO phenomenon, when experienced and reported, is tantamount to an account of the trend and thought of an era, its zeitgeist.

Reports in ancient times, as listed by the Vallee/Aubeck book, Wonders in the Sky, or represented by passages in the Mahabharata, The Hebrew Bible, or other early human texts, can be read or seen as indicative of the patina of human thought and emotion for the period being recorded, mostly rendered with a religious or mythical overlay.

The lacuna of sightings in the Dark Ages or early Medieval era show the mental abyss of the time(s).

With the Renaissance and turmoil (The Church of Rome’s descent) of the Middle Ages is reflected, as I’ve previously noted, in such famous woodcuts as the Nuremberg and Basel.

The ensuing Age of Enlightenment allowed mankind to dwell on human thought, so a need for UFOs in that period was nil, and a lack of sightings show that, just as the Romantic era of art and music indicate that mankind was inclined to harbor thoughts of a creative or transcendental kind, obviating a need for an external phenomenon to be necessary.

The 1890’s Airship wave, like music and art, show the mental construct of the era as steeped in a yen to modernity, which was stoked by the Industrial Revolution.

 The modern era of UFO and flying saucer sightings/accounts came about from the subliminal distress of the World War II aftermath and Cold War, as Jung explains in his flying saucer book: Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth in Things Seen in the Skies.

 The hodgepodge of weird sightings with odd entities reported in Europe in the 1950s tells us that those countries were more distressed than we in the States, although there is a remnant of similar accounts (Flatwoods and Hopkinsville) here during the time-frame.

As the Cold War dissipated, so did UFO sightings, now reminiscent of the foggy human mindset for our era: humankind and society not striving for some connection to things greater than either.

UFOs, today, are without, hallucinatory elements which are prominent in the 1950s or the need to understand life and nature that was a feature of early cultures.

We have settled into a bland substrate of existence and UFOs have virtually disappeared from the superficial zeitgeist that now exists.

The veneer of current human stupidity or obsession with technology has removed, pretty much, the need for a mythical phenomenon.

Thus UFOs are gone from the general human psyche and this era’s zeitgeist is cleansed of such folly.

RR

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NASA's spaceship to Mars

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/02/nasa-prepares-to-test-the-spaceship-that-could-take-us-to-mars/

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UFO People: They are the worst, generally....

This is our Blogger stats for the past week.

We usually have a little over a 1000 visitors each day, most leaving no indication that they've been here.

That spike on November 25th comes from the Roswell slides imbroglio.

But that's not my plaint...

What irritates is that UFO devotees are facile, glib when it comes to commenting or investigating a UFO sighting, old or new.

For instance, the brilliant Eric Wargo was linked here, his take on worm holes, the Hill episode, et cetera.

Only erudite Bruce Duensing commented, probably because he's one of the few readers here who understood what Mr. Wargo was telling us.

I've also added a few controversial topics which have either received no comments or passing asides.

The topics, whether the link to a "report" that a scientist thought nuclear war took place on Mars in the past or my view that the gods were human projections not alien visitors from other parts of the cosmos, have been shrugged off.

At our private UFO web-site where non-UFO students and academics hover, we get interesting and often bizarre views that provoke thought and creative thinking about UFOs and related issues.

And everyone uses their real names.

I like it that readers cruise by. I hope they take away something unique, from the past or from my ramblings.

But is you've got guts and thoughts that are intellectually oriented, please leave a note.

Kevin Randle accepts slovenly comments at his valuable blog; he's more compassionate about dullards and their flippant remarks. (I'm not, as Frank Stalter notes at Kevin's blog.)

So I'll continue here, for a while, as getting views is not as bad as being ignored altogether.

But I'd sure like to hear from those who have something to say -- something notable of course -- but something, nonetheless.

The UFO topic is conversationally moribund. I know that, but it still has enough interest by mavens to create a stir, as the slides brouhaha showed.

So don't just look here. Leave a note. (I won't make fun of it.)

RR

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First Elon Musk and now Stephen Hawking: Beware the Robots!

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

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How do the Ancient Astronaut theorists explain this?

In the oral and written “histories” of humankind, the gods, whether in the Far East or Middle East or Africa or the Americas, all have human characteristics.

None are like the little grays of Sci-Fi and UFO lore.

The gods are all too human projections of the writers making up the stories that religions are based upon.

In a small segment in The Hebrew Bible/The Old Testament – Exodus 4:24 – that maniac commonly known as Yahweh comes upon Moses (before Moses takes on the Pharaoh of Egypt) and purports to kill him (Moses).

Moses’ wife Sepphora cuts off her son’s foreskin, touching it to his feet (whose feet, Yahweh’s or her son or even Moses, no one knows) whereupon Yahweh deigns not to kill Moses.

This Yahweh is obsessed with male genitalia: circumcision, ejaculation (Onan, who in Genesis is struck dead for spilling his seed), and the purification rituals for Hebrews (about nocturnal emissions).

Homer’s gods are obsessed with sexuality, and also have the predilections of humankind.

They too have a human-like appearance.

Jesus of Nazareth, the alleged Christ, had all the indications of a schizophrenic.

(Sci-Fi writer Michael Moorcock has a story – Behold the Man – that outlines the idea: Jesus is mentally challenged, a product of debased neurological development.)

Wikipedia has this about Muhammad’s revelations (from Allah):

Sahih Bukhari narrates Muhammad describing his revelations as "sometimes it is (revealed) like the ringing of a bell". Aisha reported, "I saw the Prophet being inspired Divinely on a very cold day and noticed the sweat dropping from his forehead (as the Inspiration was over)"

A hallucinatory episode or near-psychotic moment.

The Hindu god Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita is a charioteer serving the Indian warrior Arjuna who goads Arjuna in a battle saying “Stop acting like a kliba; stand up!” (Kliba is a catch-all derogatory term for a castrated, cross-dressing homosexual – not a real man.) [From The New York Review of Books, December 4^th, 2014, Page 47]

Again, a god concerned with human sexuality.

The gods, often said by AA theorists to be extraterrestrials, are never written about as if they are technically advanced but, rather, as projective mental constructs of (mostly) men who have problems with their sexual nature.

Why AA theorists imagined or conjecture that the gods of lore are advanced beings from somewhere else in the Universe baffles.

There is nothing remotely technical about the gods of old. Those gods are mired in behavior and predilections that are all too human (even perverse).

We have been visited by beings, of course, but from our ID, as Doctor Morbius tells us in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.

RR

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Rockoon Flights (explain some UFO sightings and Roswell?)

Click HERE for the story.

RR

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The Muscarello/Exeter UFO Sighting of 1965

In September 1965, Norman Muscarello saw (or thought he saw) a UFO (depicted above).

What is interesting to me is the locale (not far from the 1961 Hill episode) and preliminary to the 1966 Ann Arbor-Dexter/Hillsdale "swamp gas" sightings. (Mr. Muscarello's sighting was near a swampy area.)

The sighting is recounted here:

http://ufoevidence.org/cases/case426.htm

And is (supposedly) explained here:

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/exeter_incident_solved_a_classic_ufo_case_forty-five_years_cold/

Did Mr. Muscarello and the police officers on scene misperceive a refueling military plane or did he (and the police) experience a craft similar to the one Betty and Barney Hill allegedly saw (and were abducted by)?

And did Mr. Muscarello get a preemptive look at an thing that Frank Mannor saw near Ann Arbor and some Hillsdale College co-eds saw few months later.

Or was the sighting a whole matter of mis-identified normality, as the skeptics Jim McGaha and Joe Nickell contend?

The ufological problem, as always, lies in the obvious: the matter has not been nailed down one way or another, just as the Ann Arbor/Dexter/Hillsdale sightings have never been explained, swamp gas aside, nor have the 1966 Wanaque sightings, with similar aspects, been explained.

RR

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Bryan Sentes brings us a revelatory posting by Eric Wargo

Our academic buddy Bryan Sentes brings to our attention, a post by another buddy, Eric Wargo at The Nightshirt:

Consciousness Inside-Out: Wormhole UFOs, the Hill Abduction, and Interstellar 

http://thenightshirt.com/?p=1952

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My position on "secrecy" -- governmental and ufological

This is a portion of a paper from Nucleonics about Nuclear Space Secrecy:

The whole paper may be found HERE.

The paper provides the view of Edward Teller and I use it, in conjunction with other advisories, to placate those who think that "UFO research" (or any research) should be private and secret, until its denouement.

The problem with some in the UFO milieu is that they want to pretend they are real researchers vetting something top secret when, in fact, they are only keeping material to themselves with the intent of capitalizing upon it, economically (personal gain) or to accrue a modicum of fame.

RR

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Something older than me....Phew!

http://io9.com/the-mysterious-antikythera-mechanism-is-more-ancient-th-1664080893

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And then there's this....

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/573878/20141124/nuclear-weapons-attack-explosions-aliens-life-mars.htm#.VHYw9tLF98A

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This is crazier than the slides brouhaha

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/574079/20141126/woman-former-nasa-employee-humans-mars-1979.htm#.VHYwHNLF98A

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From Anthony Bragalia: ROSWELL HACKING STORY RESOLVED

Rich Reynolds and I have agreed to put to rest the  ‘Roswell Slides’ hacking story and to peacefully end the matter. This was done in large part because in so doing we are avoiding falling right into the trap intended by the hacker, which is to fracture everyone apart from one another in the UFO community even further.

In an email that I had received from the hacker he indicated that was his precise intent. Rich and I have elected to not play into the hacker’s hands. I frankly do not know if this hacker is affiliated with intelligence, or, instead,  a disaffected lone person that gets his jollies out of such things. But we were all at some level tangled in his web and have now elected to get out of it.  To give further attention to the hacker through endlessly writing about it in an ever-escalating way is exactly what the hacker wanted and delights in. So were just not going to give him the satisfaction.  We are in concurrence that we all really do want to take the drama away and to stop feeding his perverse pleasure. We are going to take a higher road than he is on and move on…

AJB

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The Bragalia Saga: Truth and Lies

I reached out to Tony Bragalia suggesting we could end the slides turmoil, after all we were friends once, but he did not respond.

What is disturbing, to me, is that Mr. Bragalia wrote for Kevin Randle’s blog and Robert Sheaffer’s that Ross Evans and I were liars – about being hacked -- and that a person of Mr. Randle’s stature would print the libel, without checking with me.

Mr. Sheaffer could give a damn.

But here’s an e-mail from Tony Bragalia, to me, in the midst of the hacking:

“Re: This is Tony- Remove Last Post About my Email Hack UFO

modernherbal@safe-mail.net Sep 1 to me

i just want to let you know privately that five of my clients received the GD email. I am concerned he is now targeting my business too. And my ill 78 year old father received the email as well.

I did not mean to come across so harshly Rich, but when it comes to my family and livelihood, I get testy.

I am going to the FBI tomorrow and telling the whole story.

T

PS- It is not a virus, Trojan or worm - he has embedded into your hard drive. Anti-Virus type stuff does not work.”

Note the sentence above.

This is one of many e-mails from Mr. Bragalia saying I was hacked and still vulnerable to the hacker.

And he wrote that I said the FBI told me Tony was psychotic.

This is my e-mail to Tony about that:

RRRGroup

Sep 18

to Anthony

my son Richard says you're showing signs of psychotic behavior.

Back up or capture your postings with us.

Rich

There are other egregious libels and errors in Mr. Bragalia’s screed placed online by Kevin Randle. I will provide more if necessary.

If the FBI shows up at my door, I shall show them the threats of bodily harm or worse to Ross Evans that Mr. Bragalia made, also indicating I might be subject to same.

But here’s the sad part, for me.

Persons favoring Mr. Bragalia provide a defense of him at Kevin Randle’s blog and Mr. Sheaffer’s.

Visitors to my blogs, aside from Paul Kimball and Bruce Duensing, go to those other blogs, stir the waters but do not defend me, when they know the story or read what I’ve put online to show that Mr. Bragalia has made up a scenario about Ross Evans and me that is not true.

PurrlGurrl, a seemingly sophisticated UFO devotee, took to Paul Kimball’s Facebook page and lambasted me with ignorant asides. She didn’t read or doesn’t know what the facts are, as presented here.

And comments at Mr. Randle’s blog, about me, are incendiary and damaging, but Mr. Randle doesn’t care about the truth, or possible litigation as he allows those character assassinations to remain intact.

Mr. Bragalia has provided a story for Mr. Randle’s readers, a story full of lies and innuendo.

I know Mr. Bragalia is angry, but at me and Ross Evans?

He should be mad at the hacker who provided the information that Ross Evans got but hasn’t provided.

But no, Mr. Bragalia and the UFO crowd that ignores facts and truth go forward, threatening those of us who want the real slides story to come out, not the whole-cloth version that Mr. Bragalia and his buddies have created.

This isn’t over, I’m sorry to write, although I asked Tony Bragalia to make it so. Here’s my e-mail to him yesterday:

RRRGroup

5:28 PM (8 hours ago)

to Anthony

This isn't going to end well.  

We were friends once.

I'm prepared to write that we've resolved our differences and your personal blog with us is available.

RR

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