(David Rudiak will like the paper. Skeptics will puke, mostly because of the rumination about Betty Hill's "star map.")
The Paper
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
(David Rudiak will like the paper. Skeptics will puke, mostly because of the rumination about Betty Hill's "star map.")
The Paper
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An excerpt from a 1995 paper considering space exploration by extraterrestrials:
The whole paper may be accessed here:
ETI Exploration
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ETI Exploration
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Noted Poynter freelancer Jim Romenesko was not interested but wanted to know which fringe network was involved. (I told him History or Discovery, although I have no idea).
Dan Spalding, a Chicago area reporter, passed.
And my CNN contact wrote back that his network had passed on the matter, because of the people involved (Roswell promoters) when it was presented to them earlier and doubted they would be interested now, but he'll let me know.
While UFO stories -- serious stories -- are rarely covered by news media, Roswell seems to be really taboo, the "incident" encrusted with fraud and lies and a kind of social hysteria that demeaned the topic years ago.
So, it seems we'll have to wait for the presentation charade to see what happens.
As a local TV reporter told me, in the world today, Roswell is a beleaguered story without societal value.
RR
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Durer's Melancholia
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This 1996 paper has the patina of scholarship, but is it really scholarly?
Project MILAB
I have never been a follower of the so-called alien abduction thesis, but have presented various pieces about the "phenomenon" -- especially after the exchanges I've had, in the past, with the credible Will Bueche (a colleague of John Mack).
Alien abductions are, for me, a psychological or neurologgical matter incurred by various stimuli. You can find my suggestions via Google.
CDA notes the diminishment of interest in the matter.
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Project MILAB
I have never been a follower of the so-called alien abduction thesis, but have presented various pieces about the "phenomenon" -- especially after the exchanges I've had, in the past, with the credible Will Bueche (a colleague of John Mack).
Alien abductions are, for me, a psychological or neurologgical matter incurred by various stimuli. You can find my suggestions via Google.
CDA notes the diminishment of interest in the matter.
RR
This photo appears in the Smithsonian magazine Air & Space [September 2014, Page 41]:
This is the blurb underneath the photo:
The similarity to what Lonnie Zamora reported, including a red insignia, is remarkable and interesting, insofar as the "craft" used in the photo replicates Officer Zamora's sighting.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
In the early, modern era of UFOs, beings were spotted outside or inside UFOs/flying saucers, more often than not.
Spanish UFO researcher Jose Antonio Caravaca has cited a number of cases, and most of you are familiar with the genre.
In the 1950s, European countries were rife with UFO/entity sightings, France and Italy particularly. The entities were usually small in stature and oddly dressed:
Soviet , South American, and Scandinavian countries were allegedly intruded upon by entities of a taller or larger stature and sometimes impish:
In the United States or Canada, the entities were human or animal-like mostly, except for those encountered by contactees, which we can rule out as authentic in any real sense:
Or were these actual intrusions of alien entities from other worlds or dimensions (or time)?
That aside, why are there no such sightings or visitations now?
Was the 1940-1950 time-frame one of psychical displacement because of the Cold War or an aftermath of mental disturbance caused by World War II – a kind of flying saucer “shell shock”?
The entity sightings were (and are?) interesting and exciting for a number anthropological or psycho-social reasons.
Just as the current and recent studies of the pygmy tribes in Africa or the “hobbits” of Borneo look for an evolutionary pattern, the UFO entities could use a scrutiny, even though they are no longer reported or ufologically extant.
They point to an element of UFO lore that goes to, in my estimation, a clue as to what UFOs or flying saucers were (and are?).
RR
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Dead on Arrival?
The Development of the Aerospace Concept, 1944–58
bySTEPHEN M. ROTHSTEIN, MAJOR, USAF
School of Advanced Airpower Studies
THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA, FOR COMPLETION OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS, ACADEMIC YEAR 1998–99. [Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama]
...one will find much relevant information that impacts the UFO topic.
For instance, these footnotes...
31. RAND, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., Santa Monica Plant Engineering Division, Report Number SM-11827, Contract Number W33-038 AC-15105, 2 May 1946, 1.
33. RAND, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, 10.
... created an explanation for the Chiles-Whitted UFO rocket sighting of 1948, that has been addressed by Wikipedia, Project 1947, and a terrific exegesis by the Living Moon site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preliminary_Design_of_an_Experimental_World-Circling_Spaceship
http://www.project1947.com/gr/worldcircling.htm
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/46jkrog08/02files/Chiles_Whitted_UFO_Incident_Eastern_Airlines.html
But the paper also details the internecine struggle for space exploration and technical development of space vehicles between the nascent United States Air Force and the United States Navy, in the context of the post World War II/Soviet environment:
If in the summer of 1947 the aerospace concept appeared to be taking hold within the Air Force, encouraged by Air Force leaders clearly thinking about the prospect of an operational domain that naturally extended beyond the atmosphere, within three years the concept had all but died.
Without the external influence provided by the other services, by 1947 the aerospace concept arguably would have still been confined to the pages of Arnold’s 1945 report to Secretary Patterson. Thus between 1944 and mid-1947, the combined influence of the Army and the Navy’s actions highly encouraged its development.
Almost immediately the aerospace concept’s technology push element slowed to a crawl. Budget reductions, which began in the summer of 1947 and continued for another three years, took their toll on all Air Force R&D programs. However, those specifically supporting aerospace became the earliest casualties. Convair’s early ballistic missile study was cancelled in July 1947 as soon as the budget crunch hit, although an increased re-source flow which began following the opening of the Korean War, offered room again in early 1951 to reopen it. Satellites, interestingly, despite having lost its only rocket connection for three and one-half years, man-aged to garner the funding for RAND to at least continue its studies.
Naval thinkers ushered in the maritime vision a century ago. Perhaps it is time for airmen to lift the ceiling on airpower theory.
That last sentence of the paper gives a clue to why the U.S. Navy became and is the primary investigator of UFO sightings and, perhaps, the source of the Roswell event, which, I (and others) contend was an Earthian accident from a White Sands/Rand experiment.
UFO aficionados and ersatz researchers would do well to mine the information in this paper and others to find possible explanations for UFO sightings and the so-called Roswell incident, which is confluence of nonsense -- The Mac Brazel finding of Mogul or balloon debris, the sensationalized Haut press release based on Brazel's opportunistic salvaging of that debris, Roswellian hysteria instigated by the 1978 Friedman ET insertion into the "accident."
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
But it seems I have, for some time, caused him angst and aggravation.
Here's a response from David at UFO Updates, circa 2005, about my Zamora thrust there.
I cause David Rudiak irritation
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Here's a paper on what an invisible college is and how to establish one:
Invisible College
Here is a paper about how social contagion evolves or takes place:
Memetics and/or Contagion
The paper guides those who are preoccupied with Roswell as a myth.
It has nothing to do with the core event that precipitated what has become the Roswell lore.
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Memetics and/or Contagion
The paper guides those who are preoccupied with Roswell as a myth.
It has nothing to do with the core event that precipitated what has become the Roswell lore.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Here's a web page, about Roswell, I found in our archives, but I have no idea from whence it derives.
Roswell 1947
David Rudiak, is this yours? If not, do you know where it originated?
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Roswell 1947
David Rudiak, is this yours? If not, do you know where it originated?
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Teleportation
I suspect that only Larry will be able to understand the working principles but others can give it a try.
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
The July 17th, 2014 issue of The London Review of Books has a letter from Anil Gomes (Trinity College, Oxford) referencing an article in the June 19th issue of LRB.
It goes to H.A. Prichard's philosophical position, adopted by the so-called Oxford realists.
I won't go into the article or argument here but thought this was pertinent to what happens when Zoam Chomsky and his "opponents" get into discussions here (and elsewhere):
"The Oxford realists held that knowledge was a basic mental state, different in kind from belief and opinion. And whereas opinion could be supported on the basis of evidence, knowledge was a basic apprehension of truths. Someone who disagreed with you, then, couldn’t be argued out of his position by appealing to evidence. Rather, any disagreement could only be the result of one or other party to the dispute – most likely one’s opponent – failing to apprehend what was true clearly and rationally." [Letters, LRB]
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http://uto.sigsno.org/ufologie.net/ce3/1950-07-02-canada-steeprocklake.htm
What shows this UFO account to be a hoax?
On its face, the account is fictive -- novelized -- as if someone was writing a SciFi story. (Compare it to Lonnie Zamora's police-like report about his 1964 Socorro sighting.)
But what disturbs, somewhat, are later "sightings" like this one which I've noted here: The Aldeburgh sighting and the Reverend Gill sighting(s).
Was the Steep Rock acount actually a hoax or did the persons initially reporting it recant, bcause they were hounded by peers or government/military agencies, who wanted to discount the sighting (for one reason or another)?
Yet, the prose elaboration tells me the story was concocted, however....
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
I found this in our archives, and hope the source forgives me for not knowing how we obtained it:
The Aldeburgh Platform
These two images appeared in the original capture:
The Platform
The Locale
The sighting should be well known to CDA and other Brits; it reminds me of the Reverend Gill/New Guinea sighting of 1959, nine years earlier.
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The Aldeburgh Platform
These two images appeared in the original capture:
The sighting should be well known to CDA and other Brits; it reminds me of the Reverend Gill/New Guinea sighting of 1959, nine years earlier.
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Here is a link to a source that may explain what Lonnie Zamora may have seen at Socorro in 1964:
Balloon-Tethering of Lunar Test Module
David Rudiak will pooh-pooh this suggestion but he has nothing concrete to establish an ET explanation, while this link can provide information that circumstantially provides a realistic possibility for Lonnie Zamora's experience.
(I'll provide the exact prototype test date and data upcoming.)
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Balloon-Tethering of Lunar Test Module
David Rudiak will pooh-pooh this suggestion but he has nothing concrete to establish an ET explanation, while this link can provide information that circumstantially provides a realistic possibility for Lonnie Zamora's experience.
(I'll provide the exact prototype test date and data upcoming.)
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I came across the following item while scouring our 2005 blog archive:
It ends with this, which CDA should like:
"Those of us who served in the 509th Bomb Group at the time had considerable pride in our unit and respected our commanders. I believe we would have acted responsibly and promptly if there had been such a 'cataclysmic event.' The accusations that any of us have been involved in some sort of massive cover-up is ludicrous for one simple reason: Nothing occurred to cover up!"
There are links to much Roswell material, pro and con. Roswellians should find some useful things in it.
RR
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Mr. Braswell sent the MP3 recording to Bruce Duensing for forwarding here and we thank both for the effort.
Mr. Braswell writes that the interview lasts a little over 12 minutes and that reference to the symbol or insignia that Officer Zamora allegedly saw appears near the beginning of the interview.
It does, but by the radio host (interviewer) and Officer Zamora refrains from confirming the hosts description.
Click HERE for the interview.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
The show was, hosted by Giorgio Tsoukalos, the Ancient Astronaut theorist:
I won't go into the various elements of the show or the show's conjectures, but I will say that the idea of a rock with a Roswell connection is not unlike the Roswell slide saga, interesting but not relevant.
That is, neither a Roswell rock nor Roswell slides will explain what happened near Roswell in July 1947.
Roswell has developed a mythos, a mythical patina. That patina has to be wiped away by absolute, scientific investigation or research.
But the the Roswell story is considered, by normal people, to be a convoluted mishmash of hysteria and lies that continues to draw in irrational believers, liars, and con men.
No decent academic, scientist, or media person wants to touch Roswell or even have a transitory involvment with the topic (or event).
The Roswell Rock was interesting for those enamored of fringe topics and quirky, anomalous artifacts that sometime show up and gain an audience for a brief time.
The Roswell slides will follow that scenario: a brief spurt of interest with a following diminishment that places the photos in a Roswell footnote that only die-hard Roswellians and UFO addicts will seek out when someone brings up Roswell as a moment in time when a small segment of society was intrigued by a bizarre example of military and public hysteria.
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http://fkbureau.homestead.com/research.pdf
Those writing a blog or filling in a web-site will find the manual edifying; even those who just write comments can find useful advice therein.
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
I know some of you hate the ongoing posting here about the alleged Roswell slides but it’s a farce that needs to be made transparent or wiped away.
Kevin Randle set up The Roswell Dream Team to clarify and cleanse the Roswell story of erroneous detritus, placing the so-called incident in a factual frame of reference once and for all.
But after Mr. Randle’s withdrawal from the Team – and let’s not go there again – the Team got bogged down with an obsession about some Kodachrome slides that they think are from the Roswell area and time-period (July 1947).
That provenance – Roswell and July 1947 – has yet to be proven, and I suspect it won’t be.
The Roswell affair, in toto, has been set aside to pursue the slide story, which has become the summum bonum of the Team’s effort.
That some on the Team see this as a money-maker goes without saying (or writing).
Fame and fortune have blinded the Team members; the Roswell incident buried in the obsession to become famous or rich.
My obsession with the team efforts is almost as bad as their obsession to get publicity for the Kodachrome slides, almost.
Part of what this blog is meant to do is present the panoply of foolishness and/or truth about UFOs and the phenomena’s followers.
Once the slides are presented and ridiculed, I’ll relent and get back to providing what little I can find about UFOs.
Meanwhile, bear with me. The slides need to be made public so we can have at them, and remove their onus once and for all.
RR
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Anthony Bragalia proselytizes for the Roswell slides writing that the slides show “the alien depicted to be that of a corpse of a non-human bipedal being.”
We’ll give him that.
But what the slides DO NOT SHOW OR PROVE is that the photos were taken in or near Roswell in July 1947.
Moreover, the slides confirm nothing about the Roswell event.
That Mr. Bragalia and his team-mates think the public or UFO community is going to accept their non-objective, non-scientific view is what’s really nutty.
Mr. Bragalia, by assuming an ET bias with Roswell overtones will marginalize him in the UFO community and will take down NASA staffer Larry Lemke and Chris Rutkowski with him.
Mr. Bragalia finalizes his comment in another post here about the slides with this:
“People will dream up all kinds of crazy things about the slides…”
Yes, indeed….they will, Mr. Bragalia and his cronies more than anyone else.
RR...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
French skeptic Gilles Fernandez has provided a link to his skeptical blog or forum, about the Socorro symbol:
Gilles looks at the symbol as a conjunction of memory, graphic similarities, and other associations.
It’s a legitimate take.
But my ongoing and obsessed attention to the symbol is premised by the idea that I’ve often expressed: Identification of the symbol (or insignia) will tell us what Officer Zamora spotted in the Socorro desert.
I’ve argued, earlier here and at our other blogs, that it seems iffy the symbol was inscribed by alien (extraterrestrial) beings on the side of their craft.
One can make the alien case I suppose, and Wikipedia’s review of human writing and proto-writing, highlighting the non-connection to western civilization’s evolved writing by Chinese, Japanese, AmerIndian script among others can help one do that:
Also, here’s a concise and pithy review of human writing from which one can make a case for an alien culture developing writing similarly to how human beings have:
But striving to show that an extraterrestrial presence would paint or place a symbol on its interplanetary (or inter-dimensional) craft raises more questions than it answers, such as how the phonemic connection to human writing was created and how similar writing came into being for an alien culture, but it could be done, and maybe has been.
Setting aside the problematic connection of an ET explanation for the Socorro craft, one can attempt to see if there are human symbolism that explains the insignia Lonnie Zamora saw and drew.
Matt Gilleece did this for us a while back, tracing the popular Socorro symbol to Howard Hughes:
But that explanation has been compromised by the insertion of other symbols that Officer Zamora allegedly saw and drew.
Monsieur Fernandez is locked into a skeptical stance that is warped by his incendiary dislike of the ETH and its proponents.
But he diminishes his dismissal by a rational comment about symbols generally:
"So the probability to find some similarities between symbols is not shocking me, nor hallucinating or astonishing me."
That’s not the point however, and it’s certainly not my point.
I think the Socorro craft was a man-made prototypical, experimental craft and the symbol was infused on it by its creator(s): Howard Hughes and the CIA operation, Raven Industries, the symbol a manifestation of the egoistical engineers that Mr. Hughes engendered and used.
That is has human origin is what I see, alchemical perhaps, or computer-symbolization as I’ve outlined several times in the past here, with cited illustrations.
Monsieur Fernandez can take all the time he likes to show that symbols are similar or generated by human memory and imagination but that is a fool’s argument.
I and others are not arguing that methodology.
We are merely saying that the Socorro symbol – if we can determine which one is the real one – will lead us back to the source of the thing seen by Lonnie Zamora in 1964.
It may turn out to be alien after all, but more likely it seems to have a human origin and when we discover or decipher that, we’ll have provided an explanation for the Socorro event.
RR
This insertion is from an abstract about Rocket tests, beginning in 1946, from White Sands:
Many of those who worked in rocketry during the war nurtured the hope that the time may come when rockets are used for the sole purpose of scientific exploration. For me, the realization that this time had indeed come occurred in the summer of 1946 on the White Sands Proving Grounds where some of the captured V-2's from Peenemuende were testfired.
Working on the gyro stabilization system near the top of the rocket high on a shaky ladder, I met a young scientist who stood nearby on another shaky ladder and fixed a little Geiger counter that he had built at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. The counter had a thin window to admit ultraviolet radiation from the Sun; the name of the young scientist was Herbert Friedman. For Dr. Friedman, this rocket flight in White Sands stood at the beginning of a brilliant career in space science. [Italics mine]
(No, the Dr. Friedman is not Stan or a relative, as far as I know.)
Here is a link to the full page from which I culled the excerpt above:
White Sands
My suggestion is that what Bernerd Ray's kodachromes show is the aftermath of a White Sands rocket accident. in which some Navy personnel were wounded or killed.
The Roswell team hasn't pursued this possibility because of their zeal to show the body in the slides is an alien (extraterrestrial) humanoid.
I don't think the Roswell team has drilled down deep enough to determine what the Kodachrome slides actually show.
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Many of those who worked in rocketry during the war nurtured the hope that the time may come when rockets are used for the sole purpose of scientific exploration. For me, the realization that this time had indeed come occurred in the summer of 1946 on the White Sands Proving Grounds where some of the captured V-2's from Peenemuende were testfired.
Working on the gyro stabilization system near the top of the rocket high on a shaky ladder, I met a young scientist who stood nearby on another shaky ladder and fixed a little Geiger counter that he had built at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. The counter had a thin window to admit ultraviolet radiation from the Sun; the name of the young scientist was Herbert Friedman. For Dr. Friedman, this rocket flight in White Sands stood at the beginning of a brilliant career in space science. [Italics mine]
(No, the Dr. Friedman is not Stan or a relative, as far as I know.)
Here is a link to the full page from which I culled the excerpt above:
White Sands
My suggestion is that what Bernerd Ray's kodachromes show is the aftermath of a White Sands rocket accident. in which some Navy personnel were wounded or killed.
The Roswell team hasn't pursued this possibility because of their zeal to show the body in the slides is an alien (extraterrestrial) humanoid.
I don't think the Roswell team has drilled down deep enough to determine what the Kodachrome slides actually show.
RR
Monday, August 11, 2014
Our colleague, Spanish UFO researcher, Jose Antonio Caravaca, captured an image of an alien text/book in the 1985 movie, Enemy Mine:
Since the movie appeared a little over 20 years after the Socorro event (1964), the symbol circled in white and others didn't cause the Zamora drawing or sighting.
But it is interesting that whomever created the movie's alien book arrived at alien writing or Hughes Aircraft techie drawings for the movie that revitalize the Socorro UFO event.
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But it is interesting that whomever created the movie's alien book arrived at alien writing or Hughes Aircraft techie drawings for the movie that revitalize the Socorro UFO event.
RR
Saturday, August 9, 2014
A paper by Greg Fewer, MA Archaeologist & Historian that some who visit here might find interesting:
Fewer paper
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Fewer paper
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Shortly before John Mack went to London where he was killed by a road accident Dr. Mack contacted me at our MediaWatch e-mail address.
He was trying to find the source of a writer or writers who had savaged his book "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens" which he said was from MediaWatch.
I assured him it wasn't us -- there are several MediaWatch sites and organizations.
We ended up having a short back-and-forth about his abduction ideas and UFOs in particularly.
(He was gracious and informative.)
Recently I found this NOVA interview that appeared at PBS online. I thought some of you might find it interesting:
NOVA's interview with John Mack
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He was trying to find the source of a writer or writers who had savaged his book "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens" which he said was from MediaWatch.
I assured him it wasn't us -- there are several MediaWatch sites and organizations.
We ended up having a short back-and-forth about his abduction ideas and UFOs in particularly.
(He was gracious and informative.)
Recently I found this NOVA interview that appeared at PBS online. I thought some of you might find it interesting:
NOVA's interview with John Mack
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