tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115583062024-03-26T23:37:58.515-07:00A Different PerspectiveA Commentary on UFOs, Paranormal events, and related topics.KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger1425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-70490607733971751392024-03-14T12:37:00.000-07:002024-03-14T12:37:00.431-07:00AARO and the Beginning of MOON DUST<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s another positive
from the latest from AARO. Well, it’s not exactly anything they published, but
is a consequence of research into their list of various projects and
investigations. I was going back through some of the material that I had gathered
on Project MOON DUST and found something interesting there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First, a little
background. While I was writing <i>The Government UFO Files</i>, I was reading
documents that had been created around the time of the Levelland, Texas,
sightings of November 2/3, 1957. I found a document addressed to one of those
Air Force officers investigating the sightings who had been complaining about
the workload as the number of sightings expanded beyond Levelland. Hundreds of
sightings had been made and dozens of them reported to the Air Force. The reference
I found was a response to that complaint. More on the response later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The second part of this
is that there had been a discussion about the beginning of MOON DUST with
everyone pointing to the early 1950s as the starting point. As I reported in a
previous post, the 4602d AISS had been created to find downed enemy airmen, recover
wreckage of enemy aircraft, and interrogate the aircrew captured. When the
Korean War ended, that mission also ended, to a degree. Captain Edward Ruppelt
was complaining that he didn’t have the staff to follow up on all the UFO reports
coming in during the wave of 1952. At that point the 4602d was tasked with
interviewing the witnesses and recovering any physical evidence that might have
been found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This was treated more
as a training exercise for those assigned to the 4602d because it would give
them some real-world experience. It would also reduce the workload of those
assigned to Project Blue Book. It was a win-win situation for everyone. Those in
the UFO community believed this was the beginning of Project MOON DUST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, in my research
into the sightings of November 1957, I found a document in the Blue Book files
that provided some insight into the situation. The document, from Headquarters,
U.S. Air Force Message #54322 and dated December 23, 1957, discussed a new
project called MOON DUST. The mission was to “collect and analyze raw
intelligence reports from the field on fallen space debris and objects of
unknown origin.” Remember, I have mentioned a complaint about the workload generated
by the sightings in 1957.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I believe that this was
a response to the Soviet launch of the first artificial satellites, but since
the message was in a file relating to the UFO sightings that began in November,
1957, it suggests a connection there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I found this message on
microfilm and had no way of making a hard copy at the time and I have been
unable to locate it again. I wrote down the relevant information and have
searched for it. I filed a couple of FOIA requests hoping that the information
I did have would allow someone at those various government offices to locate a
copy, but no such luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point is that this
seemed to suggest that MOON DUST began as a real project in October 1957. The
information about the 4602d was a precursor to the MOON DUST, but it wasn’t actually
MOON DUST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, you’re wondering,
what’s the point. Well, I was rereading the letters that Air Force officers had
sent to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, when he requested information about MOON
DUST. I won’t add all that here, other to say, that it appears in the following
posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here’s what caught my
eye. In a letter written by Air Force Colonel George Mattingley, Jr., he noted,
“As the occasion never arose to use these air defense teams, the mission was
assigned to </span><i style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Headquarters, United States Air Force in 1957</i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [emphasis
added] and expanded to include the following peace-time functions: a)
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), to investigate reliably reported UFOs in
the United States…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mattingley had
confirmed my discovery that MOON DUST began, not during the Korean War, but
during the Cold War and was inspired by the Soviet satellite launches in 1957.
While I still haven’t found that original message, here was Mattingley
confirming the date for the beginning of MOON DUST. Had it not been for the
AARO report, I wouldn’t have been looking for the specific information about
MOON DUST and wanted to show how the Air Force had misrepresented their
original response to Bingaman. (Yes, I said misrepresented, but you could
interpret it to be more nefarious than that.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Question does remain,
however. How did AARO miss MOON DUST in their review of the chronology of UFO
projects?</span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-40578840244301530442024-03-13T12:57:00.000-07:002024-03-13T12:57:56.564-07:00AARO and Project MOON DUST<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s something I
noticed as I was reviewing all the projects mentioned in AARO’s latest report.
There was no mention of Project MOON DUST, which was a multiple agency investigation
which, according to documentation from the Project Blue Book files was “…to
collect and analyze raw intelligence reports from the field on fallen space
debris and objects of unknown origin.” While that doesn’t provide overwhelming
evidence that MOON DUST had a UFO component, other documentation, along with
the history of the project does.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MOON DUST came to
public attention in the mid-1980s, when skeptic Robert Todd, who filed hundreds
of FOIA requests, received a document dump from the US Department in State.
Included in those documents were some labeled as MOON DUST and the race was on
to learn more about it. Cliff Stone, a UFO researcher who lived in Roswell, New
Mexico, followed up on this, receiving dozens of MOON DUST documents, as did I.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyHGtYvwXytt6EARk02ox-JSFdFLgGLxGW4weJJIpt_s0IDcLEwc-tKgG3PHPmv_f3m-ZBeMWJLjKY5kd1-ZqkBWMBI552d2JHGKT55Lq2Rb3LCDZ_q0w-AZP8YheTYCM6djQ5QuPSw5vcIo5jbhgUASqzaWO3avZi7S5A1rXhQCCcOxg/s590/Cliff%20Stone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="590" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyHGtYvwXytt6EARk02ox-JSFdFLgGLxGW4weJJIpt_s0IDcLEwc-tKgG3PHPmv_f3m-ZBeMWJLjKY5kd1-ZqkBWMBI552d2JHGKT55Lq2Rb3LCDZ_q0w-AZP8YheTYCM6djQ5QuPSw5vcIo5jbhgUASqzaWO3avZi7S5A1rXhQCCcOxg/w491-h459/Cliff%20Stone.jpg" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cliff Stone who did some of the heavy lifting in<br />identifying Project MOON DUST.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stone interested then
US Senator Jeff Bingaman in MOON DUST and in his position as a senator, asked
the Air Force about MOON DUST. In response to Bingaman’s request, Lieutenant
Colonel John E. Madison of the Congressional Inquiry Division, Office of
Legislative Liaison, wrote, “There is no agency, nor has there ever been, at
Fort Belvoir, Virigina, which would deal with UFOs or have any information
about the incident in Roswell. In addition, there is no Project Moon Dust or
Operation Blue Fly. Those missions have never existed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The trouble with that
statement is that it is untrue. Armed with documentation proving that MOON DUST
did exist, Bingaman renewed his request. Colonel George M. Mattingley, Jr.,
wrote, “This is in reply to your inquiry on behalf of Mr. Clifford E. Stone on
the accuracy of the information we previously provided you office. Upon further
review of the case (which was aided by several attachments to Mr. Stone’s
letter), we wish to amend the statements contained in the previous response to
your inquiry.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or, in other words, the
Air Force was caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Mattingley expanded the
response. He wrote, “In 1953, during the Korean War, the Air Defense Command
organized intelligence teams to deploy, recover and exploit at the scene of
downed enemy personnel, equipment and aircraft. The unit with responsibility
for maintaining these teams was located at Fort Belvoir, Virgina. As the
occasion never arose to use these air defense teams, the mission was assigned
to Headquarters, United States Air Force in 1957 and expanded to include the
following peace-time functions: a) Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), to
investigate reliably reported UFOs in the United States; b) Project MOON DUST, to
recover objects and debris from space vehicles that had survived re-entry from
space to earth; c) Operation Blue Fly, to expeditiously retrieve downed Soviet
Bloc equipment.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While this certainly
proves a UFO component to MOON DUST, it does seem rather innocuous. Mattingley
added, “These teams were eventually disbanded because of a lack of activity;
Project MOON DUST teams and Operation BLUE FLY missions were similarly
discontinued. The Air Force has no information that any UFOs were ever confirmed
down in the United States.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, MOON DUST was
ended, according to the Air Force spokesman, but that isn’t the truth.
According to information received by Robert Todd, in a letter dated July 1,
1987, “…the nickname Project Moon Dust no longer officially exists.” According
to Colonel Philip E. Thompson, deputy chief of staff, intelligence, “It [MOON
DUST] has been replaced by another name that is not releasable. FTD’s duties
are listed in a classified passage in a classified regulation that is being
withheld because it is currently and properly classified.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What we learned on all
this is that the end of Project Blue Book in 1969 was not the end in official
interest in UFOs. Project MOON DUST can by seen as officially beginning in the
fall of 1957, according to Mattingley. We know there are a small number of
reports in the Project Blue Book files that were labeled as MOON DUST. Several
of them from 1961. The evidence shows, based on the documentation that MOON
DUST was in operation into the mid-1980s, and then the name was changed, and
the new name was not releasable. This clearly means that MOON DUST was charged
with investigation of UFOs after the Air Force claimed that it ended its interest
in 1969<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We know, based on other
documentation, some of it from the Department of State, that MOON DUST did
deploy and did recover material. Given the documentation we do have, it would
seem that none of these recoveries represented anything of an extraterrestrial nature
(or as AARO would label it, “off-world.” <i>Blade Runner</i> anyone?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point here is that the
ARRO report makes no mention of MOON DUST, or the deployment of MOON DUST
teams. This gap in the report tells us that it was not as comprehensive as they
would like us to believe. And, if they missed this, what else might they have
missed. Of more importantly what might have been hidden from them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You can learn more
about MOON DUST here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/coast-to-coast-am-moon-dust-controversy.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/04/coast-to-coast-am-moon-dust-controversy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/moon-dust-robert-hippler-and-project.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/moon-dust-robert-hippler-and-project.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This wasn’t the only
project that AARO seemed have missed. There was a plan for something called
Horse Fly that was apparently to be based at Wright-Patterson Air Force base.
It was designed to provide young officers with experience in investigation and
to give them a chance to experience TDY. I have no evidence that it was ever implemented,
but it was proposed. You can learn more about it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/10/project-horse-fly-documents.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/10/project-horse-fly-documents.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a side note, General
Arthur Exon, when he served as base commander at Wright-Patterson in the 1960s,
said that he would periodically receive telephone calls about investigative
teams coming in from Washington, D.C. He mentioned just a few of those calls,
which also suggests that AARO missed something important. While you can certainly
read about Exon in several of my UFO books, you can also learn something more
about him and those teams here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/arthur-exon-and-investigative-teams.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/arthur-exon-and-investigative-teams.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s the real point
in all this. AARO alleged that they found no empirical evidence of off-world
technologies (yeah, I like that term) but their history missed some examples of
investigations. They found Project TWINKLE which, I suppose falls into the camp
of an anomalous phenomenon but might have nothing to do with UFOs. The found Project
STORK, but seemed to miss the overall importance of that study. And the didn’t
find MOON DUST and I’ve written a book about that. Maybe they got the same
answer from the Air Force that Senator Bingaman didn’t when he first asked
about it and there was no one around to challenge the claim. Had they asked me,
I would have been happy to provide the documentation bout MOON DUST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyway, it proves that AARO’s
analysis missed a few beats. Is that enough to negate the whole report? Nah.
There are some interesting points in it including the validation of the
unofficial UFO study beginning in late 1946. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Should we reject it?
Nah. It does provide a nice chronology of UFO related government investigations
and research. It is something that we, in the UFO can build on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-1006333388085490552024-03-11T13:52:00.000-07:002024-03-11T13:52:59.884-07:00More Commentary on AARO<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The consensus throughout
the UFO community of the latest report from AARO was less than enthusiastic.
Almost universally, it was condemned as inadequate, riddled with errors and a
lack of understanding of the history of the UFO phenomena. While I didn’t
expect this alleged project to consult with any of us who have been around for
a long time, it would have saved them some embarrassment because we know where
the bodies are buried… I mean that figuratively rather than literally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Barry Greenwood, one of
the best historians studying the UFO phenomenon from the beginning, noted some
of the same problems that I did. He posted a response online that said, in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[T]here is an entry [in the table
of contents] for “Project SAUCER (1946/1947 – January 1948” and then just below
that “Project SIGN (January 1948 – February 1949).” Project SIGN is the
previously-understood beginning of UFO investigation but that is relegated to
third place now behind Project SAUCER and whatever happened in 1945. The “whatever
happened in 1945” is not even given a name, though it is described as one of
the “UAP investigatory Programs.” The earliest specific date for a beginning of
a program is 1946, “Project SAUCER” Blue Book head, Captain Edward Ruppelt,
explained in his book “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956) that a
Project SIGN member told him Project SAUCER existed a year before SIGN under
that informal designation. Long-time UFO researchers might note an anomaly here
in that the phenomenon wasn’t even called “flying saucers” until the wave of
1947. How could it be called “Project SAUCER in 1946, even by insiders? The
only widely known public manifestation of a UFO phenomenon in 1946 was the
so-called “Ghost Rocket” wave in Scandinavia in 1946, not evident in the U.S
aside from press coverage of Sweden and not called anything like “saucers.”
There is documentation that the U.S. received information on the Swedish ghost
rockets but no investigative program was launched and no further action was
taken other than to be informed of developments on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is an interesting
question but it points at the overall lack of historical understanding of the
UFO phenomenon. But as I mentioned in my last post, what it did was confirm the
research by Wendy Connors and Michael Hall, who reported that Colonel Howard
McCoy had been ordered to establish an investigation in December 1946 before
Kenneth Arnold’s sighting initiated the press and public interest in what the
world would be called “flying saucers,” about seven months later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greenwood also pointed
to another mistake, which actually showed that those creating the AARO report
had not followed the leads to the original source. They used Ruppelt’s book
without attempting to verify all the information in it. Greenwood explained:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Still a few more lines down in the
table of contents, there is an entry for “Project BEAR (Late 1951 – Late 1954).
There was never an official UFO investigation called “Project BEAR.” In fact,
it was a nickname given by Ruppelt to a project which he could not discuss at
the time by Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio. That was called Project STORK/WHITE
STORK and partly resulted in Project Blue Book Special Report 14. The original
purpose of this was to assess Soviet capabilities to conduct technological
warfare and that work crept into the UFO phenomenon. Project STORK/WHITE STORK
has not been classified for years and could have been used by AARO instead of
the inaccurate BEAR. But it can lead researches to pursue the wrong designation
with FOIA requests and get nowhere.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Other researchers have found other
areas in which the AARO report was in error. Robert Powell wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Let’s begin with the many flaws and errors in this report.
Some were trivial but were flaws that any check of a paper should have detected.
There are many broken links in the references cited…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Kenneth Arnold sighting is one of the most historical
cases in the early days of the phenomenon. The AARO paper listed the date of
the sighting as June 23, 1947. The correct date is June 24. This may seem trivial
but it is considered of the of important dates in UFO/UAP history. Furthermore,
the AARO paper stated that Arnold saw “circular objects.” This is incorrect.
Arnold never said he saw circular objects and he drew objects with a curved front
that tapered into a triangular form in back. Arnold clearly describes the objects
in an audio recording in existence…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2BDrWHrHQDV3g0yUIVKZvT7rlVor1i42ul-v9N3ihzI6Ms08Nxp7HX6arV6yPgGB-CPgVv5pL6xWdTNX620TAzpv9bu8HLbEt8GPAnNG7-KfKmdL-OZjyvpKBuPKIbGGtczW5JfrVwsY7AqnfqCvEkbMe1pXM6SfGNqzrUPdedwbVBw/s2207/Arnold%20Drawing%20as%20Provided%20to%20the%20Air%20Force.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2207" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2BDrWHrHQDV3g0yUIVKZvT7rlVor1i42ul-v9N3ihzI6Ms08Nxp7HX6arV6yPgGB-CPgVv5pL6xWdTNX620TAzpv9bu8HLbEt8GPAnNG7-KfKmdL-OZjyvpKBuPKIbGGtczW5JfrVwsY7AqnfqCvEkbMe1pXM6SfGNqzrUPdedwbVBw/w563-h349/Arnold%20Drawing%20as%20Provided%20to%20the%20Air%20Force.jpg" width="563" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original drawing of Arnold's "flying saucer." available in<br />the Project Blue Book files.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Powell touches on some of the points
made by Greenwood about Project Stork and how the AARO paper gets much of that
history wrong. Powell then points out that one of the Congressional
requirements was that AARO investigate the history of the UFO phenomenon.
Powell then wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The AARO paper ignored key historical parts of UFO history.
The AARO paper does not deal with the government involvement in any of the
major historical UFO/UAP cases. This is an egregious failure. Instead, it only
covers Roswell because it matches up with AARO’s stupor arguing against
captured ET craft. All of the following cases are some of the most interesting
sighting reports that were investigated and should have been discussed in any
historical report: May 11, 1950, McMinnville, Oregon photos; July 2, 1952,
Tremonton, Utah film; Summer of 1952 East Coast events and military orders to
fire on UFO/UAP; July 17, 1957, USAF RB-47 AWAC-type aircraft is trailed by a
UFO for two hours; Nov, 2-3, 1957, Levelland, Texas with 81 pages in Project
Blue Book; Oct. 24, 1968, Minot AFB, ND, B52/ICBM/radar… Oct. 18, 1973,
Mansfield, OH, Coyne helicopter incident…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I will add here that I have examined
several of those cases in-depth. The Levelland, Texas, case had had dozens of
witnesses, car engines stalled and other electric devices effected, and the
report of a landing trace on a ranch just outside of town. Not only were their
civilian witnesses who described the UFO, but members of law enforcement, and
even reports by military officers who followed the local sheriff out to search
for the egg-shaped object. There is good evidence that the car carrying Air
Force officers was stalled by the close approach of the UFO. I did write a book
about this case, cleverly entitled <i>Levelland</i>, that details the evidence
for these points.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSHHoBvq3W5lPI-ukhchpaQo7yMcXuikRuor1IVkCW04gLZUdqidkP5h2N-TnJARU-t3L-zaPFSxggN4tcQKtYUapMZwU5YUhcxOjAv2V18-AiCyBMHbQ1-qjeUETd1JfIG6t_T45sGCC8IjMD9us2abb2OvyXY4Gm5efPBzi2H5xBpw/s839/Levelland%20Sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="839" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSHHoBvq3W5lPI-ukhchpaQo7yMcXuikRuor1IVkCW04gLZUdqidkP5h2N-TnJARU-t3L-zaPFSxggN4tcQKtYUapMZwU5YUhcxOjAv2V18-AiCyBMHbQ1-qjeUETd1JfIG6t_T45sGCC8IjMD9us2abb2OvyXY4Gm5efPBzi2H5xBpw/w552-h470/Levelland%20Sign.jpg" width="552" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Road to Levelland, Texas, obviously. Photo by Kevin randle</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I will add that I might by the only Army
trained helicopter that investigated the Coyne helicopter case. I understood
more about what went on in the cockpit because of that training. I discussed
the case at length in <i>1973</i>:<i> A Time of UFO Sightings, Landings and
Abductions. </i>This is a book that dealt with the sightings of that year that
exposes the lie that the Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969. Yes, a
couple of plugs for my books, but also a note of where a great deal of additional
information can be found including lists of original source material and
personal interviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There were other responses as well,
attacking different aspects of the AARO report. Many of the footnotes lead to
AARO case files, but we don’t learn much about those cases. These footnotes don’t
provide anything that could be considered transparency. We do not have access
to the files so that we might evaluate the quality of the information. We are
left hoping the information is accurate and fair, but hope isn’t part of the
scientific method. We need the data so that we know if there are alternative
explanations or if they should be considered unidentified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">For some reason, those who have been
tasked by the government to investigate UFOs (oops, I mean UAP), are loath to
admit that there are some cases that defy explanation. The failure to find a
terrestrial explanation that fits the facts does not mean that the sighting is
proof of alien visitation. It means that no plausible solution is available at
this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To cite but a single case in which the
sighting seems to defy explanation but was later identified, I think of the
Chiles/Whitted sighting of 1948, proves that point. When first reported, it was
listed as unidentified by the Air Force. I believe, in the world today, there
is an explanation. The descriptions by the two pilots of the UFO, Chiles and
Whitted, suggest they saw a bolide as it began to break up. For those who wish
more information about this, can find it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chiles-and-whitted-revisited.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chiles-and-whitted-revisited.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In the coming weeks, there will be
more commentary about this latest report. The MSM, who long ago abandoned any
real investigation, will repeat the conclusion of the report without worrying about
its accuracy. That conclusion said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk161058958"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To date, AARO has not
discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented
off-world technology or the existence a classified program that had not been
properly reported to Congress. Investigative efforts determined that most
sightings were the result of misidentifications of ordinary objects and
phenomena. Although many UFO reports remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional,
quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and
resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">What is said here is the same thing
that those of us who have been around for decades have said. The vast majority
of the UFO sighting reports are of mundane and terrestrial objects. We
eliminate many of them in our investigations. We also know that in the body of “unidentified”
objects, there are many that would be resolved if complete data had been collected.
But we also know that there are sightings in which there are complete data and
no plausible explanation has been offered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">But, as they say, “It only takes one.”
And that one might be Roswell, or Levelland, or the Zamora sighting in 1964 or
the Hickson/Parker abduction in 1973, or the encounter in Rendlesham Forest in
1980. The point is that has been some very intriguing evidence that AARO overlooked
probably on purpose. This is not the end of the controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-59535846985717585712024-03-11T12:58:00.000-07:002024-03-11T12:58:57.834-07:00David Rudiak and a Quick Response to AARO<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">David Rudiak, who has been around the UFO field for
a long time, provided an analysis of the AARO report. He had appended it to the
comment section on one of my rants about the report. The information contained
in his contribution deserved more than to be attached to a posting. Following
is another analysis of the report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90nDhI3yvKHdX_lVMXCynHwhA-aNYWtz5dNsETbce-0FGjD_Ws1GfC_T9F6UYMwFpki2AFXQFVzWJn_EFehy8Ki3aUn5Kn-9Cfgj6kUy022PdK1dCyTKhHbefJlE-209YATlgula7kVJjcbGksL5mC1eb-VdnSLOD23tF3YY6ZRvavfA/s1472/David%20Rudiak.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1472" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90nDhI3yvKHdX_lVMXCynHwhA-aNYWtz5dNsETbce-0FGjD_Ws1GfC_T9F6UYMwFpki2AFXQFVzWJn_EFehy8Ki3aUn5Kn-9Cfgj6kUy022PdK1dCyTKhHbefJlE-209YATlgula7kVJjcbGksL5mC1eb-VdnSLOD23tF3YY6ZRvavfA/w500-h375/David%20Rudiak.JPG" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Rudiak in Roswell. Not the best picture, but it is one<br />of mine.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">The AARO report got my
blood boiling again too. Hence the following screed from a quick read.</span><span style="color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sean Kirkpatrick last January foreshadowed what
AARO was going to say about Roswell, namely instead of doing a real independent
investigation, simply adopting what AF counterintelligence said happened back
in the 1990s in order to derail Congressman Schiff's inquiry for his NM
constituents. So Roswell was again a nonexistent Mogul balloon flight that they
invented out of thin air, along with time traveling wooden crash dummies from
the 1950s and an aircraft accident from 1956.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">I noticed a number of
obvious omissions from this cursory history and often disingenuous distortions
of studies. E.g., the 1947 Twining memo after Roswell was never mentioned but
was highly important, since Twining declared the flying discs real, not imaginary,
described their anomalous shape and flight characteristics, and urged an
obvious back-engineering effort involving multiple government R&D groups,
which were included in the distribution list. The memo was based primarily on
the conclusions of the various engineering departments at Wright Field and was
a key step in getting Project Sign initiated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">Or AF Reg 200-2 by Twining
in 1953 when he was now AF C/S, defining UFOs (anomalous shapes and/or flight
characteristics, not identifiable even after investigation by their experts)
and stating they were to be studied for national security reasons and their
"technical aspects." The “technical aspects” again suggests interest
in back-engineering. Also’ how the press was only to be informed of solutions
for cases, but not to be informed of more puzzling cases, only that they were
under investigation. There was also a directive to reduce the unknowns to a
minimum. (After which the “unknowns”, plummeted from over 20% of cases down to
1 or 2% a year.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">AARO did mention Project
Blue Book Special Report #14 by the Battelle Memorial Institute, but
disingenuously badly misrepresented the substance of the report, claiming:
"It concluded that all cases that had enough data were resolved and
readily explainable. The report assessed that if more data were available on
cases marked unknown, most of those cases could be explained as well."
This was simply a flagrant lie.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">Instead, it was a team of 4
Battelle scientists going through all of PBB's 3200 cases to date. All four had
to agree that there was no plausible solution in order for the case to be
labeled "Unknown", but only two had to agree on a solution for it to
be labeled "Known". Still after this stringent criterion, 22%
remained "Unknown". And this number went up to 35% for those cases
labeled as "Excellent", i.e., having ample data to determine what
they were and the best witnesses, vs. only 18% for the "Poor" cases.
This is the exact opposite from AARO's claim that all cases with good data
could be "readily explained", and nearly all cases could be explained
if only they had more data. In fact, BBSR#14 had a separate category for cases
with "insufficient information" to make a determination, numbering
9%. These were neither "Known" nor "Unknown" cases. Even
among the 69% deemed "Known", 31% were still considered
"doubtfully" explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">AARO did mention that
Battelle analyzed six characteristics. But then they curiously omitted the fact
that they found a highly statistically significant difference between the
"Knowns" and "Unknowns". In 5 of the 6 characteristics, the
odds that they were the same were less than 1%. Across all six, the odds were
less than 1 in a billion. The late Stan Friedman touted BBSR#14 for good
reason. At the very least, it demonstrated a high probability that UFOs (the
"Unknowns") overall did not have a conventional explanation, and it
wasn't because the data was inadequate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">They also did an extremely
cursory examination of other country UFO investigations. They mentioned, e.g.,
the decades-long French investigation, but failed to mention it was done within
the French space agency (CNES). Their summary is also highly misleading:
"When it dissolved, SERPA [sic] concluded that the vast majority of cases
possess ordinary explanations, while 28 percent of its caseload remained
unresolved. None of these organizations have found evidence of extraterrestrial
visitations to Earth."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">In reality, of 1600 cases
examined, only 42% were actually labeled identified (only 9% as definite, 33%
as probable), thus NOT "the vast majority". 30% were labeled
unidentified due to lack of sufficient information (junk cases), thus neither explained
or unexplained, while the 28%, which they say "remained unresolved",
were the unidentifieds that DID have sufficient information, and still did not
have “ordinary explanations”. While the parent organization did not give an
opinion as to the nature of the true UFOs, three of the directors publicly
stated these were hard core cases which they believed couldn’t be explained (or
ultimately “resolved”) and were most likely ET in origin.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">There is no mention of the
1999 French COMETA Report, although not an official French government
investigation, was nonetheless done primarily by high-level military
intelligence analysts and then submitted to the French government. They
concluded about 5% of the cases they examined were unexplained and most likely
extraterrestrial in origin. (This included Roswell.) They also accused the US
government of a massive coverup.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">No mention of the 1946
"ghost rocket" wave in Europe, the first major post-war UFO wave. If
they had discussed this, they could have mentioned the USAF Europe was briefed
by Swedish intelligence in 1948 that many of their analysts also believed the
ghost rockets and later flying saucers were extraterrestrial in origin. (In a
Top Secret document that was classified for nearly 50 years.) Or they could
have mentioned that Greek physicist Paul Santorini, who led the Greek military
investigation, would later publicly state they were forced to stop their
inquiry because U.S. officials told them they already knew the objects were
extraterrestrial and were too advanced to have any defense against.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">No mention of the totally
unexplained Belgium UFO wave of 1989-1990 of large triangles (maybe several
thousand witnesses, including many police), Rendlesham 1980, Tehran 1976,
Colares Brazil 1977-1978, thoroughly documented by Brazilian military intelligence,
and many, many other inexplicable cases.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">Most mysterious of all, why
are there all these government UFO studies all over the world if there is
absolutely nothing to it? It sounds like many governments and militaries,
including the U.S., were treating UFOs as something very important, worthy of repeated,
serious and often secret study. Why no fairy or leprechaun studies? Maybe
because they don't show up on radar, cameras, infrared and microwave sensors,
cause EM interference including the jamming of radios and weapons systems,
stall internal combustion engines, leave landing traces, cause spiked radiation
readings and radiation poisoning, cause other physiological effects, intrude in
sensitive military areas, especially those having to do with nukes, etc., etc.</span><span style="color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">That’s why the USAF used to have “UFO officers” at
bases to order jet intercepts and write up reports, and not leprechaun
officers. There is no equivalent Twining memo or AFR 200-2 saying leprechauns
are real and are to be investigated for national security reasons and their
technical aspects. Presidents dating back to at least Truman have been briefed
on UFOs but not leprechauns.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;">And they left out Project
Moon Dust, a very real, very secret space object crash retrieval program. They
weren’t just going after Russian satellites. But Kevin is the expert on that. A
whole book could be written on what AARO omitted from or badly distorted in UFO
history.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: Roboto; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .2pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, this is just another analysis
of the report that finds fault with it. More to come as more of the UFO
community responds to the report. You do have to wonder why they didn’t bother
to consult with someone who could have pointed out their errors… Oh, wait. I
think I know. Anyone who has been around for a while knows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #37474f; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .2pt; line-height: 107%;">More to follow…</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-3662554252958640492024-03-11T12:39:00.000-07:002024-03-11T12:39:11.732-07:00Main Stream Media and the ARRO Report<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As predicted by many of
us in the UFO community, the MSM did not read the entire AARO report though
they would comment on its 64 page length. As happened in the past, such as with
the Condon Committee “scientific study,” they just read the Executive Summary.
They didn’t bother wading through the evidence, some of it quite technical. The
MSM just decided they didn’t need to understand what had transpired. They were only
interested in the end, never considering that the end might not be supported by
the internal documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVvMw32FctTu38nSRNT9b8ETQB9JACscHwB_PEbwmgo85jRouuqTn9K7sLcT03HUT8L7bQzLyYiXm-il3Gg64URGOmNLvmvPTxdYHcPM2c5-thFrisAerZXBdZQ_EMdG3yypQkK2HeAXc-M6HKqcq20OzGHTdo2pRRF8A8l3XnoSg9Bc/s1220/Hearing%20panel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1220" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVvMw32FctTu38nSRNT9b8ETQB9JACscHwB_PEbwmgo85jRouuqTn9K7sLcT03HUT8L7bQzLyYiXm-il3Gg64URGOmNLvmvPTxdYHcPM2c5-thFrisAerZXBdZQ_EMdG3yypQkK2HeAXc-M6HKqcq20OzGHTdo2pRRF8A8l3XnoSg9Bc/w561-h294/Hearing%20panel.JPG" width="561" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Congressional Hearing on UAP</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I said, we all
predicted what would happen with this new report. I happened on one of the news
channels when the host of the program mentioned the latest on the UFO (UAP)
front. The host threw the question to the reporter, mentioning the Pentagon and
their assessment of UAP (yeah, really UFOS). That reporter, I believe, did
mention the length of the report and then said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence
that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence a
classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress.
Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of
misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena. Although many UFO reports
remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional, quality data were available,
most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects
or phenomena.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is, of course, the
last statement in the AARO report. There was, of course, no commentary on the
accuracy embodied in the report. No comment about the trivial, such as the
claim the Kenneth Arnold sighting was on June 23, 1947, when it was actually on
June 24. And analysis that Mogul explanation for the debris recovered near
Roswell had nothing to do with the balloon launches. Just an acceptance of the
AARO report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the real point
here, is that we see the lack of reporting. I doubt the reporter even read the
report but instead, flipped to the rear and read the conclusions. He never
considered that this latest AARO report might be the same sort of misdirection
that we have been fed for more 70 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How hard would it be to
get comment from the other side? There are dozens of us out here who could have
suggested that the conclusion had little to do with the history of the UFO
phenomenon. A phone call or email might have provided some context. Instead, we
hear just a single quoted paragraph from the report with no questions about the
accuracy of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">More to follow…<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-6072188403862512322024-03-09T14:58:00.000-08:002024-03-13T05:15:18.606-07:00The Latest From ARRO: More of the Same<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">There are many of us old-timers
in the UFO field who have been around for more decades that we care to admit and
who can see the many flaws in the latest, and probably last ARRO report, given
there is a new office and new investigation into UAP. We know the flaws in that
assessment and the repeated lies that lace it. We have the documentation, the
interviews, and the evidence to support that claim. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Before I get into the many flaws,
let me point out one area that is positive. As I was working on <i>The
Government UFO Files</i>, I mentioned an unofficial investigation that began in
December 1946. This was based on the work of Keith Chester, Wendy Connors,
Michael Hall, and Michael Swords. I had noticed that each time the US
government was involved in investigations of mysterious objects beginning with
the World War II Foo Fighters, then the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets and finally
with some strange sightings by American service members, one name came up.
Colonel Howard McCoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">According to Connors and Hall,
McCoy had been given an order by General Nathan Twining to set up an unofficial
project to study these reports of strange objects. Most of the information they
had, and that I had, was not completely documented. Connors and Hall believed
that most of the files of this early project were buried under one of the golf
courses at Wright-Patterson AFB. General Arthur Exon, who had been the base
commander there in the 1960s, almost confirmed this to me when I met with him
at Wright-Patterson.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VKFOKRK1B2wCDuO-oY8XQN0GiKF6JnwOGVxZuY_Ka49_94UCQt_2NFS_Hi9nx9guhJX_l_s5PN9-zi2ehIk83Y6ASNjFXPG_l5c70dyE0Q6R3fTPd52IBI-jdeNShh7kEXvf2v6b25FcjdJyYpOUTmOodLhyphenhyphenP2jUlSQHdfLMJNAJnn4/s350/Exon%20in%20Blue.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="261" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VKFOKRK1B2wCDuO-oY8XQN0GiKF6JnwOGVxZuY_Ka49_94UCQt_2NFS_Hi9nx9guhJX_l_s5PN9-zi2ehIk83Y6ASNjFXPG_l5c70dyE0Q6R3fTPd52IBI-jdeNShh7kEXvf2v6b25FcjdJyYpOUTmOodLhyphenhyphenP2jUlSQHdfLMJNAJnn4/w373-h499/Exon%20in%20Blue.jpg" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brigadier General Arthur Exon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I provided more information on
this in <i>The Government UFO Files</i>, though I had wished there were some
sort of official statement confirming that early, pre-Kenneth Arnold sighting
of June 1947, project. With the release of the “AARO Historical Report, Volume
1,” we learn of Project SAUCER (1946/1947 - January 1948). (No one seemed to
wonder how it could have been called Project SAUCER before Arnold’s sighting,
but I digress).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">In the background, we learn:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">AARO reviewed official USG efforts involving
UFOs/UAP since 1945… The exact date of the founding of this first effort as
well as its official and unofficial name are unclear. According to one source,
General Nathan Twining, Commander of the Air Technical Services Command,
established Project SAUCER on December 30, 1947 [I believe this should be early
December (maybe the sixth 1946) to collect and evaluate all information
relating to UFO sightings which could be construed as of concern to national
security. Captain Edward Ruppelt claimed that Project SAUCER was the informal
name of Project SIGN, and it was designated a high priority. However, in an
interview with an employee of Project SIGN, the employee claimed the project
started a year earlier, in 1946 and that Project SAUCER was its original
informal name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The results, according to the
report, were that Project SAUCER did not find evidence of extraterrestrial
technology. But that really isn’t the point here. The AARO report confirmed the
information about the early beginnings of research into these strange phenomena,
pushing back the beginnings of the investigation by six or seven months. Makes
you wonder what had happened to cause Twining to issue the order to McCoy and
why none of those files were transferred to the first of the official projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I’m going to skip some of the
other, earlier reports on various government run UFO studies because this would
become much too long. I will point out that they lumped the Green Fireballs in
with the UFO reports. This was Project Twinkle, which this new report does
suggest that “That the literature is not clear if Project TWINKLE was
officially supported by the original Project GRUDGE, but it was managed by the
USAF’s Cambridge Research Laboratory.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The report said in the “Results”
section that “This project was only able to secure one camera, which was
frequently moved between locations following fireball reports, and no
photographs of the fireballs were ever taken.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The problem is that there is
documentation that there was one photograph taken of a fireball. A single
picture, taken from a single location wouldn’t do much to provide data about
the fireballs, other than showing there were fireballs. The ultimate plan, to
use multiple cameras to take pictures from multiple angles, was never
implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I’m going to jump over several
other reports, committee recommendations and conclusions to reach what might be
the most egregious example of collusion between the Air Force and an American
university. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">When the Project Blue Book files
were released into the public arena in 1976, Bob Cornett and I were able to
review them while the files were still at the Air Force Archives at Maxwell Air
Force Base. We found document after document explaining how various members of
the government and the Air Force were attempting to end Project Blue Book for
years. This was from the top of the civilian aspects of the government, various
scientific boards and committees and the highest-ranking members of the Air
Force. They wanted an excuse to close Blue Book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">To that end, the Air Force,
following a plan to end Blue Book, searched for a university to take on a
“scientific” study UFOs. The Air Force finally found the University of Colorado
to accept their half-million-dollar grant (which, according to this new report,
was only $325,000) and that Dr. Edward U. Condon would lead the effort. This
would be an “objective effort” to find a solution to the mystery of UFOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">To spell this out, Lieutenant
Colonel Robert Hippler sent a letter to what would be called the Condon
Committee. Hippler wrote that the Air Force wanted to end Blue Book because of
the cost to taxpayers. He pointed out that it was difficult to prove a negative
and speculated on what an alien species would do if it was visiting Earth,
though, according to him, there was no evidence of such. The point of the
letter was to get the Air Force out of the hole that it found itself in. I
printed the text of the Hippler letter in <i>The UFO Dossier</i>. And you can
read more about the letter, as well some commentary about those efforts to end
the Air Force investigation here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Dr. Robert Low, the number two
man on the Condon Committee acknowledged the letter and in the text of his
response wrote, “On the second page, you indicate what you believe the Air
Force wants of us, and I am very glad to have your opinion.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The text of that response was
also published in <i>The UFO Dossier</i>. The Air Force wanted an investigation
that would show there is nothing to UFO sightings, there is nothing to be
learned of scientific value and there is no threat to national security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">While it might seem that the
discussion is vague, just three days after that letter was received, Condon
delivered a lecture to scientists in Corning, New York, telling them, “It is my
inclination right now to recommend that the government get out of this
business. My attitude right now is that there is nothing in it. But I’m not
supposed to reach that conclusion for another year.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">While the Condon Committee found
that the Air Force had done a good job of investigating UFOs, despite the
ridiculous solutions appended to some sightings (the Lubbock Lights were birds
despite the photograph that wasn’t birds; Levelland was ball lightning despite
all the evidence that proved it was not), that there was no threat to national
security (despite the sightings around Malmstrom Air Force Base proving
otherwise) and that there was nothing of scientific value to be learned by
continued investigation (despite the fact one of the sightings was explained as
a natural phenomenon so rare it had never been seen before or since), they
recommended that the investigation be ended. In 1969, the Air Force closed
Project Blue Book. Of course, they did continue to investigate some UFO
sightings and there was Project Moon Dust which had a UFO component to it that
persisted until 1985 when the name was compromised. At that point, there was a
new name, which was, according to the Air Force, properly classified. This
means that the investigations continued, but it was all classified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Of course, the real problem with
the AARO report is the take on the Roswell UFO crash. I am not sure how someone
who is supposed to be investigating the topic of UFOs with a dispassionate
attitude can subscribe to the Project Mogul explanation. I am going to spend a
little more time on picking apart the conclusions offered for the debris
recovered at Roswell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">This segment begins saying,
“According to press reports, President Clinton tasked former National Security
Advisor Sandy Berger to determine if the USG held aliens or alien technology.
President Clinton said, ‘As far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in
Roswell, New Mexico in 1947… [ellipses in original] if the USAF did recover
alien bodies, they didn’t tell me about it… and I want to know.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">This would not be the first time or
the only time that a president, or presidents, were not told about ongoing
intelligence operations. I point to Operation Solo, in which the FBI office in
New York City did not tell several presidents that there was a spy with access
to the highest levels of the Soviet government. The operation was run out of
New York City to protect its integrity of the operation and to keep leak happy
Washington out of the loop. This was exposed after the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the death of the spy, Morris Childs. The book, by John Barron, was
called <i>Operation Solo</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">This doesn’t prove anything other
that there have been times when information was withheld from presidents in the
interest of national security. It is relevant only in proving that such things
do happen, especially at the highest levels. In <i>UFOs and the Deep State</i>,
I do mention the way that bureaucrats are able to dodge presidential inquiries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The report then moves on to
Congressman Steven Schiff, who initiated a GAO search for information from
several government and military organizations about the Roswell case. This, of
course, spawned an Air Force investigation into the Roswell case as well. The
results were:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The [GAO] report stated that the USAF’s research did
not locate or develop any information that indicated the “Roswell Incident” was
a UFO event, nor was there any “cover up” by the USG. Rather, the materials
recovered near Roswell were consistent with a balloon of the type used in the
then-classified Project Mogul. No records showed any evidence that the USG
recovered aliens or extraterrestrial material.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">So, let’s break this down. First,
there were several witnesses, high-ranking officers stationed at Roswell, who
were not interviewed. Many of us, Bill Moore, Stan Friedman, Don Schmitt, Tom Carey,
and me, to name a few, interviewed these men and had both audio and video tape
of those interviews so that the validity of the quotes could be established. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Although I told Lieutenant
McAndrew, who worked with Colonel Weaver that I could make all the information
available, they seemed less than interested. This included a statement from
Colonel Edwin Easley, the base Provost Marshal in 1947, to me about the extraterrestrial
nature of the event. Specifically, I asked if we were following the right path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Easley asked me, “What do you
mean?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">“We think it was
extraterrestrial.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">“Let me put it this way. It’s not
the wrong path.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqxdQVMEz2bJSfa2wgVBg7xjLgWxTqTKNlrc0b5QJBhN6R7SNFdK6FLNC2o-efiQhnP84b6AL-e8cJ3GxD6InvT5vTuFs5qek5v6lbbEygbLFz3ArgLNfyC7PIwdYiiVbXaI3LVBCmI6Mj41yNn-7Dxy9F-g-6Kiz3qilfVE_BmUeXwg/s779/Major%20Edwin%20Easley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="564" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqxdQVMEz2bJSfa2wgVBg7xjLgWxTqTKNlrc0b5QJBhN6R7SNFdK6FLNC2o-efiQhnP84b6AL-e8cJ3GxD6InvT5vTuFs5qek5v6lbbEygbLFz3ArgLNfyC7PIwdYiiVbXaI3LVBCmI6Mj41yNn-7Dxy9F-g-6Kiz3qilfVE_BmUeXwg/w321-h443/Major%20Edwin%20Easley.jpg" width="321" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Major Edwin Easley, Roswell Provost Marshal.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">In fact, every member of Colonel
Blanchard’s staff (Blanchard was the commanding office at Roswell in 1947) that
we interviewed took us in the same direction with a single exception. I, among
others, have laid this out in several books and articles, including <i>Roswell
in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i> and <i>Understanding Roswell</i>. Yes, all
this is not the sort of thing that the GAO would have uncovered, but it is
evidence of something strange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The Air Force investigation did
interview some former and retired officers, but ignored those who would have
provided a different perspective. I think of General Arthur Exon who provided
Don Schmitt and me with some very interesting information about what had been
recovered in Roswell, including descriptions of the strange metallic debris
that did not match the balloon material that is supposed to be what was
recovered. To be fair, Exon didn’t see the metal himself but was reporting what
he had been told by those who did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I could mention here Master
Sergeant Bill Rickett who was assigned to the counterintelligence office at
Roswell in 1947. He not only handled the metal and provided descriptions to
several UFO researchers including Don Schmitt and Mark Rodeghier. Rickett’s
testimony is in direct conflict with that of Captain Sheridan Cavitt who was
the officer in charge of the counterintelligence office in 1947. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">This, I suppose, boils down to a
case of who do you want to believe. I’ll note here that in the interviews that
Don and I conducted with Cavitt, he lied to us repeatedly, telling us that he
wasn't in Roswell in July 1947. Yes, I have that quote on tape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Which leads to the
“then-classified Project Mogul.” There are many problems with this. I laid it
out at length in <i>Roswell in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i>. While Mogul was
classified, the experiments being conducted in New Mexico were not. The
equipment was off-the-shelf neoprene weather balloons and rawin radar targets.
That material would have been easily recognized by the officers at Roswell and
that would have been the end of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTGBZ4f_cn_F4u-gIpejRciEKUNEWQov_H0tYRaQqRP53FvcpY4KkTm1VlfPjbyCklTIlYSkJAiT-c6r87yLUsDM_EzGAg_fOcp99KZU4iG0GVLjr2EHtsLeaCkbUsvY0pjxtA9c01eVHIxm0TPOFSur0DorP41hkdEo2jnwIWp61l_k/s296/Charles%20Moore.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="296" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTGBZ4f_cn_F4u-gIpejRciEKUNEWQov_H0tYRaQqRP53FvcpY4KkTm1VlfPjbyCklTIlYSkJAiT-c6r87yLUsDM_EzGAg_fOcp99KZU4iG0GVLjr2EHtsLeaCkbUsvY0pjxtA9c01eVHIxm0TPOFSur0DorP41hkdEo2jnwIWp61l_k/w444-h327/Charles%20Moore.jpg" width="444" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Moore reviewing the winds aloft data I had<br />supplied. Photo by Kevin Randle</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Photographs of one of the balloon
arrays were published in the newspapers on July 10, 1947, which would have
compromised the purpose of Mogul if anyone was paying attention. But the
experiments in New Mexico were not classified and were run by a team from New
York University. Although Charles Moore, one of the men working on the project
in New Mexico, told me that he had never heard the name “Mogul” it was used in
the field notes of Dr. Albert Crary, the man in charge of the research. Again,
it was the purpose that was classified and not the experiments being conducted
in New Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">But here’s the real problem. It
was alleged that Flight No. 4 was the culprit in this. It was to be launched on
June 4, 1947, but according to the field notes, and the later analysis of the
results of the flights, Flight No. 4 was cancelled. It did not fly. Later in
the afternoon, those in New Mexico launched a small cluster of balloons that
did not leave the confines of the ranges around Alamogordo Army Air Field or
the White Sands Proving Grounds. It did not approach the Brazel (Foster) ranch
where it was alleged the balloons were recovered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">What I fail to understand is how
the skeptics and the scientific community can continue to demand documentation
but ignore the written record that removes Flight No. 4 from the list of
culprits. In other words, if the flight was cancelled, then it couldn’t have
been responsible for the strange metallic debris found by Mack Brazel and some
of which was recovered by Major Jesse Marcel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I was going to end this long
analysis here and provide a list of alternative sources of information, but
just have to mention the last bullet point in the AARO. It said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Reports of military units that allegedly recovered a
flying saucer and its “crew” were descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged
in dummy recovery operations. Claims of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air
Field (RAAF) hospital were most likely the result of the conflation of two
incidents” a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost
their lives: and a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots
were injured.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">The problem here is that some of
the witnesses that Don Schmitt, Tom Carey, and I interviewed over the years,
weren’t stationed in Roswell at the time of these later events. They wouldn’t
have been “fooled” by the tragedy of the aircraft accident or the injury of
others in the years after the reported UFO crash. There is not logical way that
many of them could have conflated these two incidents into their memories of
what they witnessed in July 1947.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">There are other aspects of the
overall report that can be refuted by evidence, which I have jumped over. The
Robertson Panel of 1953, sponsored by the CIA, apparently had the final report
written <i>before</i> the first day of testimony. Michael Swords provided an in-depth
analysis of this, which would render the findings of the panel as irrelevant to
anyone who understood the circumstances around its creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I have limited this analysis to
the historical aspects of the report. Others, I’m sure, will attack the later
material, including the UAP research of the last few years. For those
interested in following up on some of this, or looking for more detail, you can
read it on this blog by typing in a keyword sure as “Mogul.” Other sources,
including special articles on this blog can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">And here is a reference that not
only provides additional information but also links to a series of blog posts
about Mogul:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/search?q=Mogul"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/search?q=Mogul</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">For those interested in the
Lubbock Lights that the Air Force decided was birds, here is a long article
that talks about much of that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/02/coast-to-coast-am-lubbock-lights.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/02/coast-to-coast-am-lubbock-lights.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/historys-project-blue-book-lubbock.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/historys-project-blue-book-lubbock.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">For those interested in the
Levelland sightings of November 1957, might I suggest finding a copy of the
book cleverly entitled <i>Levelland</i>. It is my analysis for that sighting as
well as a look at the history about those sightings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Condon and his committee never
did much with the Levelland sightings. They are barely mentioned. Here is a new
perspective on that aspect (and yes, I know it is supposed to be just UAP
without the “S,” but I find that proofreading is not my strongest skill:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/08/nasa-and-uaps-ufos.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/08/nasa-and-uaps-ufos.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">And for a general overview of
much of this, you can find information at this link. Yes, some of it will be
redundant:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-latest-on-government-uap-report.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-latest-on-government-uap-report.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I have published several books
relevant to this conversation for those who wish to really to learn as much as
possible. I would suggest, in no particular order, <i>Understanding Roswell</i>,
<i>Roswell in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</i> (which contains a long analysis
of the whole Mogul history, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Levelland</i>,
<i>UFOs and the Deep State</i>, and <i>The Government UFO Files</i>. You might
also wish to look at the Carey and Schmitt books beginning with <i>Witness to
Roswell</i>, and you might be interested in the book written by Colonel Weaver,
the man who conducted the Air Force investigation called <i>Backstory: Roswell</i>.
You might also wish to find a copy of the Air Force Report, <i>The Roswell
Report</i> that contains much information about Project Mogul and the field
notes and diaries kept by Dr. Albert Crary, that proved there was no Flight No.
4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">There are many other sources of
information, but I’ll sure this is much more than most people wish to read. I
mention all this to provide a sample of the work that I, among others, have
done on this. If there are other questions, use the search engine on my blog,
kevinrandle.blogspot.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-31776074255761445842024-02-11T08:38:00.000-08:002024-02-11T08:38:47.492-08:00A Personal Note<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: courier;">As many of you know, I have been suffering from some major medical issues for the last several weeks. There have been doctor's appointments, one minor surgical procedure, and other related activities. It has taken a lot of time. I mention this, hoping that all of you understand my tardiness in reviewing and posting comments and may failure to respond when necessary.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">In the next several days, I will have another, more invasive surgery with a short recovery time. When all this concludes, I hope to be able to get back to my regular schedule. I hope that everyone will understand, but if you don't, well, that's on you and not me.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">As I say, I mention this not for the sympathy but because I know that those of you who visit here regularly deserve an explanation. It is not a lack of interest but other issues have taken a momentary priority. Just thought I would mention it.</span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-61461068469014415842024-01-27T12:36:00.000-08:002024-01-27T12:36:39.105-08:00Kirkpatrick, AARO, Project Mogul and Moore<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Friday, on my UFO
Update on Coast-to-Coast AM, I mentioned an article written by the former
director of AARO, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick who posted something of a rant about his
time at AARO. It was clear from his article that he was anti-alien visitation.
There is a history of those who have been put in charge of UFO, or in this case
UAP, investigation who have had a dislike for the topic and who were predisposed
against the idea of alien visitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitHIXk7Qjs4Gq6GhBwSmutLbd58cXtiotj-GDEaBp3G3NSXtGNrnyDW6NllPg0osmNrGSQ5Y_UmfsczzsCY8B7y9kT7vIR5XjJ3vzZrHUHwlE8fJkTHNDp-9mKAFQIAvD2zQqibXiX7mXZrYtXWL6AmTcz68oSyi1YPFF-PDRFdiPQeM/s966/Sean%20at%20table.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="966" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitHIXk7Qjs4Gq6GhBwSmutLbd58cXtiotj-GDEaBp3G3NSXtGNrnyDW6NllPg0osmNrGSQ5Y_UmfsczzsCY8B7y9kT7vIR5XjJ3vzZrHUHwlE8fJkTHNDp-9mKAFQIAvD2zQqibXiX7mXZrYtXWL6AmTcz68oSyi1YPFF-PDRFdiPQeM/w570-h333/Sean%20at%20table.JPG" width="570" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sean Kirkpatrick briefing senators on UAP and ARRO.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those who are
interested in another aspect of this, I will attach, at the end of my analysis,
that of Dr. David Rudiak, who goes into Kirkpatrick’s rather unscientific belief
that Project Mogul explains the Roswell UFO debris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First, we need to
examine, briefly, the history of official UFO investigations which is filled
with those at the top being radically anti-UFO. It began in the late 1940s when
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg refused to accept an intelligence analysis
suggesting that some flying saucers were alien craft. After looking at the
report, known as the Estimate of the Situation (EOTS), he ordered the document
declassified and then burned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This bothered me.
During my career as an Air Force intelligence officer, I dealt with classified
material all the time. I destroyed many out-of-date documents that would have
created a great deal of clutter in the safe. There is nothing nefarious about
this and every intelligence officer, as a matter of routine, has destroyed
out-of-date documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I also tossed out
unclassified documents without needing to document their destruction. The question
that springs to mind is why would Vandenberg have ordered the EOTS declassified
and then destroyed? The answer is that if it was classified, there would need
to be a record of its destruction. It would prove that the document had
existed. But, if it was declassified first, then no such documentation would be
needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ed Ruppelt of Project
Blue Book said that he had seen one copy of it. There wouldn’t have been many
created given the nature of the EOTS and its purpose. No more than a dozen and
probably fewer. So, one survived for a period and Ruppelt read it. He said that
it concluded that some flying saucers were alien spacecraft and Vandenberg didn’t
accept that conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxjuqIZxPA6QY2IPGLly3u9MCJ0j_diT3TPdcgAkbes5rAUmNy3Fv8RjgV-9HkeZnrBN5ityk3B7OzyUGU1eFynVO6CIwUBhDU83bfv6vpbuLjmpyfsWwiQ1oZ2lZuf7HTDJp0Jxww3HZfHUqjRYXmzsoQUOJ4Rqxhnk4lETiMu4FpzY/s247/Ruppelt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="239" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxjuqIZxPA6QY2IPGLly3u9MCJ0j_diT3TPdcgAkbes5rAUmNy3Fv8RjgV-9HkeZnrBN5ityk3B7OzyUGU1eFynVO6CIwUBhDU83bfv6vpbuLjmpyfsWwiQ1oZ2lZuf7HTDJp0Jxww3HZfHUqjRYXmzsoQUOJ4Rqxhnk4lETiMu4FpzY/w342-h353/Ruppelt.jpg" width="342" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Edward Ruppelt.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is the first
instance of a high-ranking officer deciding that certain information must be
kept from the public. I won’t speculated as to why Vandenberg believed that. I
will say that we all can figure it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And, I will note that
if the Chief of Staff of the Air Force didn’t accept the idea of alien
visitation, then those officers who valued their careers felt the same way.
Once Vandenberg made it clear there were no flying saucers, his subordinates
followed his lead. They weren’t interested in finding evidence that
contradicted the highest-ranking member of the Air Force. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ruppelt, when he was
appointed as the chief of Project Blue Book tried to make it a proper, unbiased
investigation. For a period of 18 months or so, that is what happened. Once he
was given a new assignment, the old guard took over. At one-point, Blue Book
was made up of very junior personnel. According to Jerry Clark, what followed
was a series of men who were rabidly anti-saucer. Not much in the way of
investigation took place though sighting reports were gathered and most were “identified.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In January, 1953, the
CIA convened a panel of scientists to review the facts gathered by Project Blue
Book. Both Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the scientific consultant to Blue Book and Ed
Ruppelt were there. Their testimony was limited. The investigation lasted about
five days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The panel concluded there
was nothing to alien spacecraft visitation. It was all misidentified objects,
weather and astronomical phenomena, hallucinations and hoaxes. The problem here
was that the final report was written before the panel even met. Dr. Michael Swords
laid this out in both the <i>International UFO Reporter</i> and in the book he
co-authored with Robert Powell, <i>UFOs and Government</i>. I examined this in <i>UFOs
and the Deep State</i>. Both books provide footnotes and sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Beginning in the late
1950, there was a move by many in both the Air Force and higher levels of
government (dare I say, the Deep State here) to get rid of Air Force responsibility
to investigate UFO. Documents found in the Project Blue Book files outline all
this. Eventually, the Air Force decided to find a university that would make an
investigation into the phenomenon. The result was that the University of
Colorado accepted a grant to make the scientific study of UFOs. The problem
here, as it was in the past, was that the final conclusions written before they
began their investigation. This has been documented through the correspondence
between the members of what became know as the Condon Committee and the Air
Force. I have written about it on this blog and you can read it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/moon-dust-robert-hippler-and-project.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/01/moon-dust-robert-hippler-and-project.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/condon-committee-negated.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/condon-committee-negated.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">David Rudiak focused primarily
on Kirkpatrick’s Project Mogul explanation for the Roswell case. I would have
thought that a scientist, charged by Congress to make an investigation would
have been smart enough to make a literature search as he began his quest. While
studying for a Ph.D., that was among the very first things I did. I spent days
in the various libraries at the University of Iowa, searching through the journals,
magazines and sources of information as I worked to define exactly what my research
would be and what had gone on and published by others so that I didn’t repeat
their research. I used it to define what my research would be. Apparently,
Kirkpatrick didn’t bother with that before writing his rant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say David Rudiak examined
what Kirkpatrick had written and provided a commentary on it. Rudiak provided a
link to an interview concerning this and then wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Episode-38-Is-The-Pentagon-Really-Hiding-Crashed-Alien-Spaceships-Podcast/B0BZ29R9CH?clientContext=130-5774271-3870223&loginAttempt=true" target="_blank">https://www.audible.com/pd/Episode-38-Is-The-Pentagon-Really-Hiding-Crashed-Alien-Spaceships-Podcast/B0BZ29R9CH?clientContext=130-5774271-3870223&loginAttempt=true</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(See 20 min. in)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sean Kirkpatrick,
"retired" director of AARO, allegedly declared in aninterview with
CNN's Peter Bergen Jan. 23, that AARO "dug deep into Roswell".
Bergen then states that in the late 1940s and 50s there were "a lot of
strange things" happening near Roswell. "There was a top secret
spy program called Mogul which launched long strings of oddly shaped metallic
spy balloons into the air. At the same time the US military was
conducting tests with other high altitude balloons that were carrying human
dummies and there was at least one military plane crash with 11
fatalities. Kirkpatrick and his team at AARO concluded that crashed Mogul
balloons, the recovery operations to retrieve crashed test dummies, and
glimpses of the aftermath of that real plane crash likely combined into a
single narrative, a narrative matching the mood of the country at that
moment."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then Kirkpatrick
actually speaks: "...there was this fear coming out of World War II,
everybody's still raw from the War and there's lots of technological issues
that people were trying to wrap their mind around. And that affected what
people saw and how they reported. I think the same thing is true
today."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So basically
Kirkpatrick and AARO's supposed "deep dive" into Roswell (at least
according Bergen's narration) is really just a complete regurgitation of
AFOSI's 1995 Mogul balloon and 1997 crash dummy reports (which included the
plane crash), combined with the latter's "time compression theory"
that dummy tests from the 50s were confused with the events of 1947 to become
alien bodies. Thus we learn that these events really all occurred
"at the same time" as Roswell and were somehow combined by the public
into just one event because they were still traumatized from WWII. (The trauma
apparently gave the public precognitive abilities so that they were aware of
plane crashes and crash dummy tests from the future.) We also learn that
Mogul consisted of "oddly shaped metallic spy balloons". So
apparently the foil radar targets were also compressed with round rubber
balloons to create these oddly shaped metallic balloons that people thought
were flying saucers. Psychological trauma does really strange things with
people's minds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why didn't I figure
this out? Brilliant sleuthing Kirkpatrick and AARO. Case
closed! Time to hang up my spurs and try to sell my tin foil hat on
eBay. You too Kevin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I received a call last
week and was tipped off by a science reporter that Kirkpatrick was going to try
to debunk Roswell as a Mogul balloon and was looking for rebuttal material,
which I provided him. I didn't realize just how bad and inaccurate it was
going to be. Kirkpatrick has always struck me as a slimy tool, but Bergen
was even worse. The whole episode is dripping with condescension and ridicule,
not to mention being highly inaccurate with even basic facts. What ever
happened with real journalism that tried to stick to facts and play it
straight?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We also learn that UFOs
can be explained as our new technology that the public is unfamiliar with or
spy technology of foreign adversaries. Isn't that more probable than
aliens coming here? I ask you. Really!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another interesting
angle here came from an interview by skeptic reporter Steven Greenstreet of the
NY Post. He interviewed Brandon Fugal, who bought the Skywalker Ranch in
2016. Fugal told him that in 2018 he was invited to give a briefing to
Senate staffers of the Armed Service and Intelligence committees, but just as
he was about to start, the person at the head of the table said words to the
effect: "Before we proceed any further, I want to establish an
understanding. All the gentleman here, Mr. Fugal, that you're presenting
to are all very well aware of the reality of UFO phenomena. So please dispense
with any part of your presentation that would seek to convince us of the
reality because we already know."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greenstreet then asks,
"Who said that?" Fugal responds, "One of the individuals leading
the discussion." He doesn't say who.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greenstreet's video
then shows a photo of Sean Kirkpatrick and comments, "A source familiar
with this meeting told me this was Sean Kirkpatrick." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1648428449663717376" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1648428449663717376</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So if this is accurate,
and I strongly suspect it is, Kirkpatrick knows better and is just another
government disinformation agent. It also seems that AARO's investigations are
basically a farce. But we already strongly suspected that as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are several
points that Rudiak didn’t mention. The balloon launches from Alamogordo in 1947
were conducted by New York University and were not classified. The culprit in
this was the balloon array scheduled to be launched on June 4, 1947 but,
according to the field notes and other documentation created at the time by Dr.
Albert Crary, confirmed that the launch had been cancelled. It could not have
dropped <span style="color: black;">"oddly shaped metallic spy balloons.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Based on my
interviews with Charles Moore, one of the engineers working in New Mexico in
1947, when a flight was cancelled, they couldn’t put the helium back in the
bottles. They sometimes conducted other experiments with a cluster of balloons,
which were did not involve the whole array. One such cluster was launched later
in the day on June 4, but did not contain any rawin radar targets, that is the “oddly
shaped metallic spy balloons.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULYwvCU9qLR0u2yAgm4R-Q_PsJ3eVxvk71WvTuAAZtKVVwpTdLwWwDCV4QUx6s2i0suFfvWMakbSZJIds1tH2Lkc73Ik2gsXEi1H2H87XBWk7DbABUEOD42NppTF0Thz_FcOKPwi1owJuU4IFIuyvAfYMjK4X_pdCg2Ts07AG1z-ze8g/s296/Blog%20Photos%20032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="296" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULYwvCU9qLR0u2yAgm4R-Q_PsJ3eVxvk71WvTuAAZtKVVwpTdLwWwDCV4QUx6s2i0suFfvWMakbSZJIds1tH2Lkc73Ik2gsXEi1H2H87XBWk7DbABUEOD42NppTF0Thz_FcOKPwi1owJuU4IFIuyvAfYMjK4X_pdCg2Ts07AG1z-ze8g/w447-h329/Blog%20Photos%20032.jpg" width="447" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Moore reviewing winds aloft data that I supplied.<br />Photo by Kevin D. Randle in Socorro, NM.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It should
also be noted that, according to the records available, the first launches in
New Mexico, which began with the attempted Flight #4, did not include any rawin
targets. We know this because Moore told me that Flight #4 was made up the same
way as Flight #5 and it contained no rawin targets. The documentation exists to
prove this. Flight #5 was the first successful flight launched in New Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And, I will
note that Moore, in his report on this controversy said that Flight #4 had
actually been launched at two or three in the morning in violation of the rules
under which they operated. Not to mention that according to Crary, the flight
was cancelled at dawn. So, according to Moore, the flight was launched before
it was cancelled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I could go
on with this but I have reported on it in <i>Roswell in the 21<sup>st</sup>
Century</i> and <i>Understanding Roswell</i>. I have also posted several blogs
on this. You can access them all by using the search engine on the left side of
the blog. Here are a few of the more relevant postings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-end-of-project-mogul.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-project-mogul-double-standard.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-project-mogul-double-standard.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/02/oncein-while-okay-more-often-than-that.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/02/oncein-while-okay-more-often-than-that.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, just type Project
Mogul into the search engine and it will bring up all the articles and discussions
concerning Mogul. There are, or course, redundancies, but that is for the convenience
of the reader so that he or she doesn’t have to search through earlier comments
to understand the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I mention all of this
for the perspective on Kirkpatrick’s rant. He said that he had been charged by
Congress to bring science-based clarity and resolution to the long-standing
mystery of credible observations of UAP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the same claim
made by H. P. Robertson in 1953 and by Edward Condon in 1969. It is the same
claim made by the Air Force throughout the 1950s and 1960s. But we have been
subjected to the same anti-UFO sentiments and misleading comments for years,
all made by credible sources who have a particular agenda. It wasn’t to provide
the truth or an unbiased look at UFOs and now UAP. It was always about hiding
information and attempting to head off independent research. I see nothing here
that suggests a transparent investigation but more of the same sort of duplicity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kirkpatrick is annoyed
that his efforts were derailed by sensational but unsupported claims that
ignored contradictory evidence. I can say the same things about his
investigation made behind closed doors that ignored contradictory evidence. His
investigation was limited to official sources. This is really a case of the pot
calling the kettle black. Had he asked, I certainly could have supplied some of
the evidence that he told us didn’t exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He said that no record
exists of any president or living member of the intelligence community having
knowledge of any highly classified program and that someone at the top of the
government would have been briefed at some point. He found no record of that. I
pointed many of those sorts of records in <i>UFOs and the Deep State.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ll note the
qualification which is living member. There are examples of several highly
placed people talking about secret programs. General Bolender said sightings
involved with national security were not part of the Blue Book system. Allen
Hynek said the really good cases never made it to Blue Book and we know that
his investigation into the Socorro landing was cut short when he wanted to
continue the research in New Mexico. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And I, as well as many
others, can point to sources, no longer with us, who provide good insight into
the UFO phenomenon and the Roswell case. This would include Brigadier General
Thomas DuBose, Brigadier General Arthur Exon, Colonel Edwin Easley and Colonel
Patrick Saunders to name but four who had inside and intimate knowledge of the
Roswell case. Their testimonies are available on audio and video tape.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEV2Rtnqsu97Sg8xEltsAeT6veT5lHt9ZSgctHbySAY_F2BX-kBhCiVWulWc0U69Y_vjaUUR4XptiHSlBV4rhhl7PWiD2847Yy9Ok8fEEzoq_4knSJfpYrTuTzAFe1zW-0xHkKl6KkQfOxvjMRxtJTcVvs_hJaUYKuxncwTjxqqcZZZ4/s290/exon.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="200" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEV2Rtnqsu97Sg8xEltsAeT6veT5lHt9ZSgctHbySAY_F2BX-kBhCiVWulWc0U69Y_vjaUUR4XptiHSlBV4rhhl7PWiD2847Yy9Ok8fEEzoq_4knSJfpYrTuTzAFe1zW-0xHkKl6KkQfOxvjMRxtJTcVvs_hJaUYKuxncwTjxqqcZZZ4/w352-h510/exon.jpeg" width="352" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brigadier General Arthur Exon.<br />Photo courtesy of Tom Carey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I could go on in this vein,
but this is already longer than I had intended. It just provides a counter to
Kirkpatrick’s rant. I doubt those in power want the counterpoints. It interferes
with their message which is there is nothing to see here. Go on home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-28180844821895154772024-01-15T15:33:00.000-08:002024-01-15T15:33:23.542-08:00UFO Crash Retrievals: Three with Explanations<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Blogger’s Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<i>Periodically I feel the need to commit Ufological suicide. This means,
simply, that a reference in some of the latest material about UFOs annoys me
because I believe I have a solution for the cited cases. In the last few days,
I have been asked questions about certain UFO crash/retrieval cases in which I
have inside information. Or maybe a better way is to point out that my
investigations include being on the site, interviews with witnesses, and a
review of documents that suggest a solution that others have glossed over.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First on this agenda,
is the report of a crash in Aurora, Texas, in April, 1897. I may have been one
of the first of the current crop of investigators to have actually gone there
and talked to some of those residents who were still alive in 1971 when I made
the trip. I have covered this case several times on this blog and you can read
those analyses here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/aurora-texas-story-that-wont-die.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/aurora-texas-story-that-wont-die.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/04/aurora-texas-again.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/04/aurora-texas-again.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are three facts
that are often overlooked in a discussion of Aurora. First, in the decade that
followed, and according to the Wise County Historical Society (Aurora is in
Wide County), two histories of the county were written. Neither contained an account
of the UFO crash. Since the histories were written so close to the event, there
would have been many witnesses available but none were found… well, that’s not
exactly accurate. There were none to be found because the case is a hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooZ5T9pD_NCcp2qyiAjYlNjde29lIyKov5WrvDECrBCZV49ZEPhXe2rHK4yS75yJnDj0VrhHhqiQzlcMBukabwSAaOxzvwZzDQFFt7Yg9NO0zUyyHRhit7afAYcM21lCcHzDM8yUJEMlthMm7Kh937vISr1AjgLH9AMDgbWooGUGKKng/s3598/Aurora%20Texas%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="3598" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooZ5T9pD_NCcp2qyiAjYlNjde29lIyKov5WrvDECrBCZV49ZEPhXe2rHK4yS75yJnDj0VrhHhqiQzlcMBukabwSAaOxzvwZzDQFFt7Yg9NO0zUyyHRhit7afAYcM21lCcHzDM8yUJEMlthMm7Kh937vISr1AjgLH9AMDgbWooGUGKKng/w547-h389/Aurora%20Texas%201.jpg" width="547" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of Aurora, Texas by Kevin Randle</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Second, in the
interviews that I conducted in 1971, I talked with the man, Brawley Oates,
whose hands were badly deformed. He told me then that the crash hadn’t taken
place. We are now told that others, who never spoke to Oates, but who did
interview his widow, that there are reports of radioactivity in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Third, we are told of
all the other Airship reports from the era. I’ve reviewed, literally, hundreds
of them. The Airship landed in various locations and the crews were
interviewed. Some said they were on the way to bomb the Spanish as the
Spanish-America War was not far off. There were tales of secret testing the Airship
which would soon be revealed to the world, but never was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are dozens of
illustrations of the Airship and one photograph. The Airship had landed in
Waterloo, Iowa, when the leader of crew fell overboard and drowned in the Cedar
River. Later is was all admitted to be a hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWNxmgAB0nmIcFfVU-8Ya10frKWcwMFxxo7_b6ygjrogaeDgN-QCFSYnj8swqupZkeVLgYEerwFH1fSxtonfsuNq9O-iYd9N4rNZZ6_IHt6mRmdiUBaZRIwIhQauVZgwKKgvAQytWh-m1nqkK-sxnRvhGqAvwSeo4lHrLX-Kz9OmXHCI/s1125/Waterloo%20Airship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="1125" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWNxmgAB0nmIcFfVU-8Ya10frKWcwMFxxo7_b6ygjrogaeDgN-QCFSYnj8swqupZkeVLgYEerwFH1fSxtonfsuNq9O-iYd9N4rNZZ6_IHt6mRmdiUBaZRIwIhQauVZgwKKgvAQytWh-m1nqkK-sxnRvhGqAvwSeo4lHrLX-Kz9OmXHCI/w466-h176/Waterloo%20Airship.jpg" width="466" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Waterloo Airship, 1897.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Second, let’s talk
about the Del Rio, Texas, UFO crash. I’m not going into depth here because I
have provided much more information about my investigations and other aspects
of this case. It is single witness, the report provided by a man who lied about
his military service, who changed the data of the crash repeatedly, and did
sign an affidavit for CUFOS. I am convinced that his name was Robert
Willingham, but nearly everything else he said was untrue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I mentioned the
changing date. I found the first reference to the crash in <i>Skylook</i>, the
original publication of MUFON. It said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Col. R. B.
Willingham, CAP squadron commander, has had an avid interest in UFO’s for
years, dating back to 1948 when he was leading a squadron of F-94 jets near the
Mexican border in Texas and was advised by radio that three UFO’s "flying
formation" were near. He picked them up on his plane radar and was
informed one of the UFO’s had crashed a few miles away from him in Mexico. He
went to the scene of the crash but was prevented by the Mexican authorities
from making an investigation or coming any closer than 60 feet. From that
vantage point the wreckage seemed to consist of "numerous pieces of metal
polished on the outside, very rough on the inner sides."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Please note that in one of the latest reports on this, the
date is December 6, 1950. When I interviewed Willingham, he said that he didn’t
remember the exact date but it was either 1954 or 1955. Willingham told Noe
Torres and Ruben Uriate, that he had served in Korea in the fall of 1950. Given
that tale, it would have been impossible for him to be flying fighters in the
United States at the time he was in Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Hvfms01f7z-JA21SFU443EIPp2IGuS4MSFEDDx3sP50eU9ieJJSZmTw9zZdTkomrWVlFFN5YHyMj1LXEMaSppwavSKCnMExestb5ZHUh8zeEppZ6yM2iDhs3Z6G-qCdiKDuCaxboPfrsOGi3uSSvAIxlSGN1jfHtiOp5jGMd-eZN7UE/s751/Willingham%20Close%20Up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="544" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Hvfms01f7z-JA21SFU443EIPp2IGuS4MSFEDDx3sP50eU9ieJJSZmTw9zZdTkomrWVlFFN5YHyMj1LXEMaSppwavSKCnMExestb5ZHUh8zeEppZ6yM2iDhs3Z6G-qCdiKDuCaxboPfrsOGi3uSSvAIxlSGN1jfHtiOp5jGMd-eZN7UE/w400-h552/Willingham%20Close%20Up.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Willingham in his CAP Uniform. He never served as an<br />officer in the Air Force and was not a fighter pilot.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will point out there is no official documentation showing
that Willingham was ever an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States.
He did serve with the Civil Air Patrol which is not the same thing. For those
interested in this whole, sad tale, you can find all the information here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/04/eisenhower-briefing-document-mj-12-and.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/04/eisenhower-briefing-document-mj-12-and.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/04/eisenhower-briefing-document-mj-12-and.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/04/eisenhower-briefing-document-mj-12-and.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/07/del-rio-ufo-crash-and-mj-12.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/07/del-rio-ufo-crash-and-mj-12.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/02/willingham-1978-interview.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/02/willingham-1978-interview.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/08/roswell-festival-part-two.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/08/roswell-festival-part-two.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/06/mj-12-and-cognitive-dissonance.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/06/mj-12-and-cognitive-dissonance.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are other
articles, but they often repeat much of the same information. To research all
of them, just type “Willingham” in the search engine and scroll through the
articles. I’ll note that some of the comments do get interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, the Kingman
UFO crash has reared its ugly head again. This was one of the first
crash/retrievals to gain some traction. The original story is traced to Arthur
Stansel, who was interviewed by to teenagers, Jeff Young and Paul Chetham.
During that interview, Stansel told of a UFO crash near Kingman, Arizona, on
May 21, 1953.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiVKWF5iv0cL2wSduNzlneiinCs0PdmvR3fON4GxxNUnZh5HqMYRkMAltprq2d2WGFT2i7GOzsUvB8uB3yv5iiXjUI-DjbwwStf5Bs81CFSTyDMKzIL1YQyFhy2XFon_MowwitdqtWpyvSiE_hwo4cYZSDnR1q_UoFIk25Q2AeuUA-mE/s699/Kingman%20Arizona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="699" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiVKWF5iv0cL2wSduNzlneiinCs0PdmvR3fON4GxxNUnZh5HqMYRkMAltprq2d2WGFT2i7GOzsUvB8uB3yv5iiXjUI-DjbwwStf5Bs81CFSTyDMKzIL1YQyFhy2XFon_MowwitdqtWpyvSiE_hwo4cYZSDnR1q_UoFIk25Q2AeuUA-mE/w530-h252/Kingman%20Arizona.jpg" width="530" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingman, Arizona. Photo by Kevin Randle.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He talked about taken
by bus from his base in Nevada to the crash site where he put his engineering
background to work. He said that the windows of the bus were blacked out and
those on the bus were not allowed to share any information about themselves including
their names. But, once at the crash site, their names were called as they
exited the bus. That really makes no sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, rather than go
through all this, I’ll just point to a series of postings here for review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-decline-and-fall-of-ufology.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-decline-and-fall-of-ufology.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/05/kingman-ufo-crash.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/05/kingman-ufo-crash.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/05/kingman-ufo-crash-really.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/05/kingman-ufo-crash-really.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/03/kingman-rises-from-dead.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/03/kingman-rises-from-dead.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are two points to
be made here. First, Stansel said, repeatedly, that when he drank, he tended to
make up stories. He told Young and Chetham that he had been drinking on that
Saturday afternoon prior to the interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Much had been made
about the affidavit he signed. The trouble is that it was in the name, Fritz
Werner, which, of course, invalidates the affidavit, since that was not his
real name and was a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The overall problem is
that in these three cases, there is clear evidence of hoax. Often these aspects
are not fully reported. My philosophy has always been to report are relevant
facts and let the reader decide what to belief. I’m not trying to build a case
for alien visitation, just report, accurately on what I had learned. Often, I
have investigated the cases myself in an attempt to discover the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are just three of
the UFO crash/retrieval stories being circulated in the world today. If there
were as many crashes as some have claimed, we would be having a different
discussion. My hope here is to provide, well, a different perspective on some of
the ongoing reports of UFO crashes. In too many cases, it is the will to
believe that gets in the way of credible investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-35738313232880887432024-01-06T12:25:00.000-08:002024-01-06T12:25:59.137-08:00UFO Photo, Em Effects and Animal Reactions<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who have been
following my reports here know that I try to find sightings that last more than
a minute. Anything less is open to misinterpretation. Mundane and terrestrial
objects can appear strange in a sighting that lasts seconds. If the witness has
a longer opportunity to observe the UFO, the better the chances it was
something truly strange. Dr. J. Allen Hynek made a similar observation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On December 18 of last
year, the witness in Kelso, Washington, reported watching a disk-shaped UFO for
thirty seconds. The UFO was black, moving smoothly from side to side and then
flashed away. The witness said it was about six hundred feet in the air and
that it was traveling at five hundred miles an hour. I will caution that these
estimates are probably not as accurate as they could be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to the report
on the National UFO Reporting Center website, the witness took a photograph
that provided a second chain of evidence. The UFO is disk shaped, black, but is
seen through the branches of a tree and overhead wires.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VP1flwVVI_TVHvV35wFbM1U3qBrjpSFOr9SWuMp05rBK-7Z3zmTi4WISm8XoKNTfTipBTG7kb-VrB2LGjgULI9CUKY1RiBfW6iXKrsYmz7ChCejhWv8hpQ0xXGPyASNZZiuJ3A_kXoA3uWTHoyYEDcmU1hVJMg4WQblpJcUyagXJzmc/s1600/Kelco%20UFO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VP1flwVVI_TVHvV35wFbM1U3qBrjpSFOr9SWuMp05rBK-7Z3zmTi4WISm8XoKNTfTipBTG7kb-VrB2LGjgULI9CUKY1RiBfW6iXKrsYmz7ChCejhWv8hpQ0xXGPyASNZZiuJ3A_kXoA3uWTHoyYEDcmU1hVJMg4WQblpJcUyagXJzmc/w475-h632/Kelco%20UFO.jpg" width="475" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kelso, Washington UFO</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is a third chain
of evidence as well. According to the report, there were electromagnet effects
and that animals reacted to the UFO. This is an important case and I will
attempt to follow up on it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The following, also
from the National UFO Reporting Center caught my attention for a couple of
reasons. First, however, I need to note that I worry about sightings that last
for hours, and I worry about repeaters, meaning here, that they saw the same
thing the next night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The witness, in
Greensboro, NC said that beginning on December 12 of last year, he saw a
bright, intense light hovering above the tree line. It was moving right and
left with periods of hovering. He said it was pyramid shaped with what he
described as tentacles hanging from it. There was some sort of blackness around
the UFO, something like a cloud. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He wanted to get a
picture but said that his cell phone was dead. He did get another cell phone
but said the UFO wasn’t in focus. He couldn’t get a good picture of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He did say there was
another witness who was on her way to work, and she saw the same thing. And,
there was a report of animal reactions to the UFO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In both these cases
from the last month, there were reports of EM effects or a cell phone failure
and reaction by animals. These extra points add some credibility to the
sighting. Both cases can be reviewed at the National UFO Reporting Center
website which can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">https://nuforc.org/</span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-29129876790217471262024-01-01T09:27:00.000-08:002024-01-01T09:27:42.600-08:00HIckson/Parker Lost Interview Tapes Recovered<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Blogger’s Note</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:
We are told, based on the scientific research of, well scientists such as Dr.
Elizabeth Loftus, that memories fade rapidly. The best testimony is that taken
within five days of the event. That taken within hours is certainly preferrable
to that taken months, years, or decades later. We are told that each time we
access a memory, it can by changed by the simple act of attempting to remember.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dr. Ulric Neisser
tested this in 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. He provided his
first-year psychology students with a short questionnaire about the disaster
asking, for example, how they had learned of the event, where they were and
what they had been doing. He gave the same questionnaire to those same students
as they finished their college education four years later. He found that about
a quarter of them had memories that were at odds with what they had written on
the day or two after the event. About half had some confusion or mistakes in
their memory and about a quarter had accurate memories of the event. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The simple point here
is that in any investigation, it is best to interview the witness as soon as
possible. That as time passes memories can change with new information added
and older information lost. When investigating the Pascagoula abduction of
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, any information gathered within hours or a
couple of days of the event is preferrable to that gathered decades later. If
there is a discrepancy, the best course is to accept the first information over
that gathered later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">I
say all this as preamble to the following press release, that reports on audio
files of the interviews conducted by Dr. James Harder and Dr. J. Allen Hynek
literally within hours of the reported abduction that have recently been found.
It provides a necessary history of APRO and the research conducted by that
organization. It also reports on the project headed by David Marler to archive
UFO related information in a central repository. Finally, it mentions the
recovery of taped interviews with Hickson and Parker that had resided in the
APRO files recently obtained by Marler’s project called National UFO Historical Records Center. This is, for UFO research, a truly
historic find.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlfCyKOe77HWforaz3Plt0TcYItgQfWBJcpZ86pheU-BurxKMnbT0yKu3k7IM4mAYA8AL6NXlR5OmFChJeKRKqvWNUKnvHMDTuDNK2jTALoZGmTeZ1VvWRs3DjJHkXi3hPyQltKV5VPj8wl2jhHv0NsYrquRCwo0pWMbJrNEK4urS9hk/s1920/Pascagoula%20tapes%20w%20APRO%20background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlfCyKOe77HWforaz3Plt0TcYItgQfWBJcpZ86pheU-BurxKMnbT0yKu3k7IM4mAYA8AL6NXlR5OmFChJeKRKqvWNUKnvHMDTuDNK2jTALoZGmTeZ1VvWRs3DjJHkXi3hPyQltKV5VPj8wl2jhHv0NsYrquRCwo0pWMbJrNEK4urS9hk/w557-h418/Pascagoula%20tapes%20w%20APRO%20background.jpg" width="557" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pascagoula Tapes.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Please note one other aspect of this. Unlike the situation in the
past, in which researchers often withheld information for their own use, here
is an example of sharing the information as soon as it was discovered. It is a
move toward a more scientific attitude in UFO research. One that we all should
take as a model.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 14pt;">NEWS RELEASE – HISTORIC AUDIO FILES OF THE 1973 PASCAGOULA
ENCOUNTER RECOVERED FROM THE ‘LOST’ APRO FILES (PLEASE SHARE).</span></b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">For decades, the
civilian American UFO research group APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research
Organisation) was the go-to UFO group headed by married couple Jim and Coral
Lorenzen. Like most UFO groups it gradually faded away to be replaced by
something else. APRO was without a doubt a pioneering UFO group and for decades
after they closed down access to their archive of UFO files and related
material was impossible.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">It was
therefore great news when David Marler, Executive Director of the National UFO
Historical Records Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico put out a press
release. It seems coincidental that in early November 2023 I had been
discussing the location of various files on social media when this great news
was released by David Marler, the Executive Director of NUFOHRC. It took
the UFO community completely by surprise. Here is the press release in full
dated November 28th 2023: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">The Aerial
Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) was one of the oldest and largest
civilian UFO research organizations in the world. The research files of this
organization have been transferred to the National UFO Historical Records
Center (NUFOHRC) in Rio Rancho, NM. </span></p><p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqDR9CHm50HChaElqCVYdRSwmIlAJ9kFlqaTWjFRs9QwSntRV4gK25gKkbHnIDezYBLlEIadI6eUcvwObjE0n2q3GGAZPZNaKKURuaTLfIHTQV-gQLpsRfFIOdUghsvuwAgYOwhJAHx9GPmGm6Hlil15-UqdnIolyBLmoVzgShkQSMFYc/s1920/Pascagoula%20tapes%20w%20Dave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="1920" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqDR9CHm50HChaElqCVYdRSwmIlAJ9kFlqaTWjFRs9QwSntRV4gK25gKkbHnIDezYBLlEIadI6eUcvwObjE0n2q3GGAZPZNaKKURuaTLfIHTQV-gQLpsRfFIOdUghsvuwAgYOwhJAHx9GPmGm6Hlil15-UqdnIolyBLmoVzgShkQSMFYc/w601-h410/Pascagoula%20tapes%20w%20Dave.jpg" width="601" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave Marler and the Pascagoula Tapes.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Press
Release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">11-28-23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Dr. J.
Allen Hynek, former Scientific Adviser to U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book,
cited APRO and NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena)
the best civilian UFO groups of their time. Both of these collections of UFO
archival records along with the files of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) are
now housed at the headquarters of NUFOHRC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">APRO was
founded in 1952 by Jim and Coral Lorenzen, later based in Tucson, AZ. NICAP was
started in 1957 in Washington D.C. by Major Donald Keyhoe. CUFOS was founded in
1973 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek in Chicago, IL. All of these records are in the
process of being digitized for electronic storage, analyzation, transfer, and
ease of access.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">The
collective files of APRO, NICAP, CUFOS, as well as Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s
original U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files, constitutes the largest
civilian historical UFO case file collection in the United States, if not the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">An
appropriate site is being sought in the Albuquerque, NM area for a permanent
facility to house this massive collection of UFO research data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">The
facility will allow for public access to the UFO data as well as viewing of
historic photos and artifacts from the UFO research field. NUFOHRC plans to
cooperate with civilian, scientific, and governmental UFO research efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Never in
U.S. history has such a vast quantity of UFO records (numbering in the tens of
thousands) been centralized in one location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">As a
501(c) (3) non-profit organization, a tax-deductible donation may be made to
NUFOHRC to fund a free-standing public archive building which will make these
files and other historical materials more readily accessible for UFO
researchers, academics, scientists, and U.S. government organizations.
Donations can be made online or via mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">For more
information, contact Executive Director David Marler at: <a href="mailto:dbmarler@outlook.com" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:dbmarler@outlook.com">dbmarler@outlook.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">National UFO Historical Records Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">P.O. Box 15541<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Rio Rancho, NM 87174<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><a href="http://www.nufohrc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #467886;">www.nufohrc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">In short
David Marler and NUFOHC were now in possession of what I called the Holy
Grail of civilian UFO research files. I have known David Marler for a number of
years and I was happy to donate my own humble collection of UFO files and
related material to NUFOHRC in 2023. David knows what projects and topics I am
working on but it was going to take a good amount of time to go through the
APRO files but I was confident that these long ‘lost’ files were now safe and
could bear fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQGmT3uvnAaBmRxUq1cepIVGNp5SKEr8KP-kyquz3sFjOyexKbFSFcxAFo8zcIOf-KsKPbIam7Onh1nJ-tUU8a88VLfW7Mt0CGtMUtn0OiMAuz4vcVetp_q9HLfJdh3VTsI99YBR1F31TjY_9PucvP0AsbnjXQbF8Sr9asWTDo0zWauY/s1920/Pascagoula%20tapes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQGmT3uvnAaBmRxUq1cepIVGNp5SKEr8KP-kyquz3sFjOyexKbFSFcxAFo8zcIOf-KsKPbIam7Onh1nJ-tUU8a88VLfW7Mt0CGtMUtn0OiMAuz4vcVetp_q9HLfJdh3VTsI99YBR1F31TjY_9PucvP0AsbnjXQbF8Sr9asWTDo0zWauY/w377-h502/Pascagoula%20tapes.jpg" width="377" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pascagoula Tapes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Since 2018
I have been working with Calvin Parker on his encounter on the Pascagoula
River, Mississippi on October 11<sup>th</sup> 1973. I worked with Calvin
Parker right up until he died in August 2023. I spoke with him on the phone
shortly before he died and told him that I’d continue to be the torch bearer
for his and Charles Hickson’s encounter and the search would go on for more
material.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Thankfully,
I was joined in this research by my friend and colleague Dr Irena Scott from
Ohio, USA. Over the last five years we have had amazing support from UFO groups
and individuals around the world who have supplied us with all they have on the
Pascagoula encounter. There are too many to mention but working with these
amazing colleagues we have uncovered: documents and photos of the minor
injuries on Parker & Hickson, the full transcript of their interview at
Keesler AFB, the full unredacted US Coast Guard documents on the USO sighting
in the Pascagoula River and the list goes on and on. This is a great example of
how UFO researchers can work together. Nothing has come from the false claims
of those stating that they ran a MoD UFO project or a secret DoD UFO study. The
same applies to so-called ‘whistle-blowers’. They have put nothing on the
table. In fact the whole ‘disclosure lobby’ has ignored the subject of alien
abductions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Dr Irena
Scott and I have also obtained firsthand eyewitness testimony from UFO
witnesses that first spoke up in 1973 and others who we have either located
ourselves or have stepped out of the shadows in these last five years. In
fact they are still coming forward with several new witnesses being interviewed
in the last few months. Some of these witnesses were in the direct vicinity of
where Parker & Hickson had their encounter. Mr Charles Anderson was driving
across the bridge that goes over the Pascagoula River when he saw the ‘blue
UFO’ down below him. Mr Louis Lee was working on the opposite side of the river
that night as a crane driver in the shipyard. As soon as he got in
his cab he could see this ‘darn thing’ out over the river. And most fascinating
of all are Mr and Mrs Blair. They were on the opposite side of the river that
night and saw the Parker/Hickson encounter and they had their own alien
abduction experience as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">HISTORIC
AUDIOFILES OF THE 1973 PASCAGOULA ENCOUNTER RECOVERED FROM THE ‘LOST’ APRO
FILES </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">It was
much to my surprise and delight that I received a message from David Marler on
Thursday December 28<sup>th</sup> (2023) asking the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">“Do you
have any of Harder’s regressive hypnosis tapes related to Pascagoula? I just
found one in the APRO audio tapes. I’m listening to Calvin under
hypnosis. </span></i><i><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Yes. I’m not with it now. But there are references to the event
occurring just days before. Also, there is recorded discussion between Hynek
and Fred Diamond.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">I replied
immediately that I did not have this material and could I have a copy please.
David, being the gent and genuine UFO researcher that he is, digitized these
audio cassettes for me and they are now with me and Dr Irena Scott.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">A
colleague is already on standby to try and boost the sound quality of these
files and they will be sent to him shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">There are
five separate audio sequences. They are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">1. Dr
James Harder hypnotic regression on 10-14-73 (October 14<sup>th</sup>, 1973) of
Calvin Parker re Pascagoula MS UFO incident on 10-11-73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">2. Dr
James Harder interviewed in wake of Pascagoula MS incident on10-11-73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">3.
Pascagoula MS 10-11-73 incident interview with Hickson and Parker by Sheriff
Fred Diamond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">4. Sheriff
Fred Diamond Interviewed by Dr. J Allen Hynek re the Pascagoula Incident on
10-11-73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">5. Sheriff
Fred Diamond plays secret recording of Calvin and Parker to Hynek re the
Pascagoula Incident on 10-11-73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">At my
request David Marler took a couple of photos of the original tapes including
one of himself holding them. These photos and all of these audio files remain
copyright David Marler/NUFOHRC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">It goes
without saying that they are a huge find and are a significant part of the
history of the 1973 Pascagoula alien abduction account and to the wider study
of such experiences. I cannot thank David Marler enough for his
cooperation with this and for proving up with copies of this truly fascinating
material. David is still going through the APRO files and who knows what
else might turn up. As yet we have not decided how to make this new information
available in public. We will take it one step at a time with the first step
being the enhancement of the sound quality of these audio files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">REQUEST
FOR MORE INFORMATION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Dr Scott
and I know that there are others out there that have more information on this
case. With the greatest of respect all we ask is that whatever you might have,
no matter how insignificant you might think it is, to please share it with us.
We are looking for anything: newspaper cuttings, photos, correspondence,
ephemera and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">OTHER
WITNESSES</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">Over the
last five years we have literally interviewed dozens of eyewitnesses to the UFO
events back in 1973. Most of these witnesses were perfectly willing to allow us
to use their real names. There were a few that were not happy with this so we
simply used a false name instead. No problem. We are confident that there are
still other witnesses out there that have yet to go on the record. What we
would like to ask is for you to contact us and allow Dr Scott and I to document
your sighting. We can do this in complete confidence if so required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">CONTACT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;">If you
would like to contact us regarding any of the above I can be contacted on face
via private message or directly on email:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv6007958444msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/philip.mantle.9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #467886;">https://www.facebook.com/philip.mantle.9</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="mailto:philip.mantle@gmail.com" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:philip.mantle@gmail.com"><span style="color: #467886;">philip.mantle@gmail.com</span></a> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-14553350347365210182023-12-28T12:24:00.000-08:002023-12-28T12:24:06.914-08:00Coast-to-Coast AM: The Rhodes Photographs Revisited<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given one of the developing
situations in the world of the UFO, I thought I would revisit the information
swirling around two photographs taken by William Rhodes in July 1947. There are
two reasons for this. I have found a great deal of misinformation about Rhodes
on the Internet recently, and the official investigation into the sighting
shows the bias against witnesses, even when they have photographic evidence ignored
by those charged with the investigation. This is something that persists even in
today’s more enlightened environment. And that’s not to mention the recent NASA
report that suggested no solid evidence of alien visitation had been found. Had
the Air Force (yes, I know it was the Army Air Forces at the time) investigation
in 1947 been conducted properly, the photos might have provided the sort of
solid evidence that NASA desires, if they were inclined to research any of the
history of UFOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rhodes, according to
what he told reporters and later military and government investigators, was on
his way to his backyard lab when a “whooshing” sound caught his attention. He
thought it was a jet, but when he spotted the object, he realized his mistake.
He ran to his lab and grabbed his camera. Back outside, he photographed the
UFO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a black,
heel-shaped object with what he described as a clear dome in the center. In the
drawing he made it was more of a domed disc than heel shaped, but that might be
a matter of perspective. He took one picture and realized there was a single
frame left on the film. He hoped the object would come closer and when it
didn’t, he took the last picture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzal-oZ5jT_gtJP2bMPUFFRh0RUK4H7wiLcnYxvYnNio7fcliN6625_GofVrsNzVA15Hie75ltXTfVp3KSBrSMoRIA4jbfk48Q-KOS1_nAH-qWsnAl3DtRPPlmy2nf5xtnNEclG9q-LSjZhAx7Vlaluvcfbsc2qraRj1vg_6n2wi1dAI/s260/Rhodes%20Photo%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="240" height="569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzal-oZ5jT_gtJP2bMPUFFRh0RUK4H7wiLcnYxvYnNio7fcliN6625_GofVrsNzVA15Hie75ltXTfVp3KSBrSMoRIA4jbfk48Q-KOS1_nAH-qWsnAl3DtRPPlmy2nf5xtnNEclG9q-LSjZhAx7Vlaluvcfbsc2qraRj1vg_6n2wi1dAI/w526-h569/Rhodes%20Photo%201.jpg" width="526" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best of the two Rhodes photos, showing the "dome" in the<br />center and the heel shape that would become important.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Air Force
investigated, were unimpressed with Rhode’s lifestyle, suggesting he was living
off his wife’s occupation rather than earning a living himself. They noted he
sometimes played piano in a local bar but I’m not sure why that would be a
disqualification. They didn’t care for his claim to be the director of the
Panorama Research Lab, which was the well-equipped lab in his backyard. They
officially wrote the case off as a hoax. I believe that was mainly because they
just didn’t like him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, Kenneth
Arnold, the man whose sighting brought us the term flying saucer, had been
asked by Ray Palmer, the editor of a science fiction magazine, to investigate
the Maury Island sighting of June, 1947. That was because he and Arnold had
something of a professional relation, meaning Arnold had supplied an article
about his sighting to the magazine. Arnold traveled to meet the witnesses but
found himself overwhelmed by the task. Arnold called on Lieutenant Frank M.
Brown, who had investigated Arnold’s sighting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">None of that would be
relevant to the Rhodes’ sighting, except that Brown and Captain William L.
Davidson, joined Arnold in that investigation. Arnold asked Brown what was
happening with that flying saucer business. Confidentially, Brown told him
about Rhodes. Arnold asked what was happening with the whole flying saucer
business. Brown said they, meaning the Army Air Forces had received two
pictures that looked like Arnold’s original heel-shaped object. Although Brown
didn’t supply much in the way of information, just mentioned evidence in Phoenix,
but that was a clear reference to the Rhodes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdedJfo6pb_R6-tPfdG2Ux1XMU8WoWskig4lY5ArYWqi1QOsWjIniR42Fa8Cbaqp_lDPclv2aHAUMBpjVmmq2DeDSeCEiDnZJkWR0X3zC3UewGFRJC4AOQ0uiccyrNFlVpPINp6KycraKxFRIsQJX0fgBFTKgzSkthd0BfjAPw3w2g3A/s2207/Arnold%20Drawing%20as%20Provided%20to%20the%20Air%20Force.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2207" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdedJfo6pb_R6-tPfdG2Ux1XMU8WoWskig4lY5ArYWqi1QOsWjIniR42Fa8Cbaqp_lDPclv2aHAUMBpjVmmq2DeDSeCEiDnZJkWR0X3zC3UewGFRJC4AOQ0uiccyrNFlVpPINp6KycraKxFRIsQJX0fgBFTKgzSkthd0BfjAPw3w2g3A/w537-h332/Arnold%20Drawing%20as%20Provided%20to%20the%20Air%20Force.jpg" width="537" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original drawing Arnold provided to the Air Force. It shows the heel<br />shaped-object. Rhodes would not known about that in 1947.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Air Force smeared
Rhodes’s with allegations about his character. They interviewed his neighbors
who said that Rhodes didn’t like their animals running around on his property.
Most of it was trivia like that. And the investigation ignored information that
would shed a more favorable light on Rhodes. Others since then have used the
Air Force file as a source to reject the value of the Rhodes photographs. Not
many look beyond what is found in the Project Blue Book file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have learned more
about Rhodes. He claimed a Ph.D., but could not produce documentation except
for a replicate of his diploma in a small, plastic sealed card. Rhodes
explained that while serving with the Navy at the beginning of WW II, the Navy
gave its civilian employees a test. Depending on the score, they were awarded
the equivalency of a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or a Doctorate. Rhodes scored high
enough for the doctorate. That might be the source of the confusion, though
Rhodes seems to be a little vague about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I spoke with a friend
of Rhodes who told me that Rhodes had something of an abrasive personality, but
that he was a genius. Rhodes liked to solve problems and this man said that
they had hired Rhodes to solve a problem at an Arizona university.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, I have
written more about this here and in a couple of my UFO books. You can find that
information in no particular order here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/05/coast-to-coast-am-flir-and-william.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/05/coast-to-coast-am-flir-and-william.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/04/kenneth-arnold-william-rhodes-and-maury.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/04/kenneth-arnold-william-rhodes-and-maury.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-of-best-ufo-photographs.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-of-best-ufo-photographs.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/william-rhodes-and-his-phd.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/william-rhodes-and-his-phd.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point here is that
we have some very good information about specific UFO sightings but they are
overlooked because of controversy. Often that controversy is injected as a way
of eliminating compelling testimony and evidence without a good reason. That’s
where we are with Rhodes, and it is where we are going with much of the latest
testimony. Nobody remembers the good, only the bad. Just ask Bill Buckner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-34601503457882889812023-12-27T09:43:00.000-08:002023-12-27T09:43:45.911-08:00Mysteries Uncovered - A Semi-review of a Book<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In this episode of why
I’m beginning to dislike Ufology, I have planned something of a rant against
all the negative comments directed at me. These are challenges to my military
background, my education, and that I write science fiction, though Stan Friedman
once accused me of writing romances. But rather than do that, I’m going to
mention a book I stumbled onto that sort of underscores the trouble with the
UFO field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mysteries Uncovered</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,
with the subtitle of <i>True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained</i> by
Emily G. Thompson, caught my attention because in the promotional material, it
mentioned the Roswell case. Well, here was a writer who had never actually been
to Roswell or who had never interviewed any of the witnesses, but who was
providing us with an analysis of the case. Naturally, I had to see what she had
to say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The book is loaded with
analyses of many of the things that catch our attention here beginning with the
Lost Colony of Roanoke and the Mary Celeste and several UFO related topics.
Yes, I turned immediately to the chapter cleverly entitled, <i>The Roswell
Incident</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the first page of
that entry, after a brief synopsis of the case, there is a quote from Dr.
Robert A. Baker, a hardcore skeptic. He said “It’s a modern myth, a kind of
religion. There is a common human need for salvation, and it’s always coming
from above.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That didn’t bode well
for the entry, but the text wasn’t quite that bad. However, in the first
sentence, she told us about Mac Brazel, not realizing that it’s been a couple
of decades since it was discovered by Tom Carey that he was actually Mack
Brazel. This suggested that she hadn’t done the in-depth research that would
have provided that small nugget of information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She provides some
descriptions that are attributed to Mack Brazel, but he never said anything
like that to anyone. She wrote, “The wreckage consisted of metal, some of which
was dull and some of with was shiny and thin, resembling tinfoil. There was
also something that looked like transparent plastic string or wire, and thin
sticks shaped like I-beams, made from a material that Brazel was unable to
identify.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was Bill Brazel who
told Don Schmitt and me about those items. She missed the important point. Bill
told us that when you shined a light in one end of that plastic string it came
out the other. He said that it resembled monofilament fishing line but he was
talking about fiber optics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She wrote about the
size of what we have been calling the debris field. She wrote that he, meaning
Mack, estimated that the wreckage covered an area of three-quarters of a mile
long and 200 to three hundred feet wide. “It appeared as though some kind of
machine had exploded in midair and wreckage from it had rained down of the
earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But we know the size of
the debris field is based on descriptions from both Bill Brazel and Jesse
Marcel, Sr, the Air Intelligence Officer of the military unit stationed at
Roswell. The description was not provided by Mack Brazel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And all this is in just
the first paragraph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After some discussion
of other, irrelevant sightings in New Mexico, she reported that Brazel drove
into Roswell to talk to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. She wrote that
Brazel might receive a reward for the discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the July 4 weekend,
there were reports of various organizations each offering a thousand-dollar
reward for proof about the flying saucers. But, according to the newspaper
reports, that information wasn’t available to Brazel until after he made the
trek to Roswell and there has been no evidence presented that Brazel knew about
that money. The reason for the trip, was, allegedly to sell some wool, but the
real reason was he wanted to know who was responsible for all that debris and
who was going to clean up the mess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes, I could continue
to pick apart this entry, but what is the real point? Instead, I’ll move to the
discussion of Project Mogul, the culprit blamed for the wreckage. She reported,
accurately, that the Air Force launched an investigation after several members
of Congress asked for that investigation in the mid-1990s. But then wrote, “…
the debris found near Corona was related to Project Mogul, a top-secret program
aimed at using balloons to spy on Soviet nuclear tests. They claimed that the
wreckage was part of a 600-ft balloon train…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This really isn’t her
fault but the balloon arrays launched in New Mexico had been reduced to 400
feet and contained common weather balloons and no rawin radar reflectors early
in the New Mexico launches. She wrote, based on the Air Force report, “They
claimed that this was peculiar material found at the crash site that neither
Major Marcel or [sic] Brazel could identify.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But they should have
been able to identify it. There was nothing special, nothing classified about
the balloon arrays being launched in New Mexico. They were standard, off the
shelf neoprene weather balloons and rawin radar reflectors. A farmer in Circleville,
Ohio, Sherman Campbell, found a weather balloon and radar reflector in one of
this fields on that July 4 weekend, and knew exactly what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took it to the local sheriff, who also
knew what it was. Even if Brazel hadn’t recognized it, Marcel should have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While I hesitate to get
back into the arguments about Project Mogul, there are other points to be made.
Thompson quoted Charles Moore, who worked on what he was quick to point out to
me that this was the New York University balloon project. She wrote, “Moore
claimed that the balloons were equipped with corner reflectors [rawin radar
targets] that were put together with balsa wood and coated with synthetic resin
glue similar to that made by Elmer, to strengthen them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But Moore told me, when
I visited him in Socorro, New Mexico, that the make-up of Flight No. 4, the
culprit in this discussion, was the same as that as what was termed “the first
successful flight,” Flight No. 5. However, the diagram of Flight No. 5, as
published in the Air Force report had no radar reflectors on it and none were used
on any flight in New Mexico until much later in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSIntLfOaMO-pZUh-_Xx8ic-HmC_LP8N2N3ROx_LWJdPBaHOQuqbaOnvJCINf80OvMwurnAitY32IyJWXjP_0BX3Jjejn4HX-M2n2nyI023hjrC_gOblqReRp0X9xnE3mhAfGQs7avdLDh8LKcVmPc2-2ZeGWau0uwu9EEBXvWvRE8b4/s1974/Scan0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1974" data-original-width="1410" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSIntLfOaMO-pZUh-_Xx8ic-HmC_LP8N2N3ROx_LWJdPBaHOQuqbaOnvJCINf80OvMwurnAitY32IyJWXjP_0BX3Jjejn4HX-M2n2nyI023hjrC_gOblqReRp0X9xnE3mhAfGQs7avdLDh8LKcVmPc2-2ZeGWau0uwu9EEBXvWvRE8b4/w435-h608/Scan0007.jpg" width="435" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">The configuration of Flight #5. Charles Moore told me that Flight #4 was configured in the same way. Notice there are <i>NO</i> rawin targets on the flight Also notice the other components which were not among they types of debris described by the witnesses.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2pUTqUFHbMea4fuVBCmJ13Z_MdcvLF-8PmuBJbE6-1R2YdENiZRzP2SOk_ob_Gx-tqjasIc-Qjn25u1NintVG-NI8-_YFvUs4qNsLZw4hPQPuqXpfAIeT-uLMSgsfmrZCPtXWHFhPo-9Lz4GjCGgdaIGHPurkyXHYDPlaUOIPAzYELNo/s296/Charles%20Moore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="296" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2pUTqUFHbMea4fuVBCmJ13Z_MdcvLF-8PmuBJbE6-1R2YdENiZRzP2SOk_ob_Gx-tqjasIc-Qjn25u1NintVG-NI8-_YFvUs4qNsLZw4hPQPuqXpfAIeT-uLMSgsfmrZCPtXWHFhPo-9Lz4GjCGgdaIGHPurkyXHYDPlaUOIPAzYELNo/w443-h326/Charles%20Moore.jpg" width="443" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Charles Moore reviewing winds aloft data that I provided for him as we attempted to determine the flight path of Flight #4. Photo by Kevin Randle, taken in Socorro, New Mexico in the early 1990s. It was during our discussions that Moore supplied information about the activities in 1947.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thompson then discussed
the Alien Autopsy that surfaced about that time, meaning 1995. It has very
little to do with the Roswell case and is an admitted hoax. Nearly everyone
involved in the hoax have come forward and there are photographs of them
putting together the “alien” creature that appears in the film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To keep this from
getting away, meaning too long, Thompson provided us with the Glenn Dennis tale
of the nurse who saw the alien bodies. Dennis said that she had told him about
seeing the aliens in the base hospital and within days she had been transferred
out of Roswell. He had written to her once, but the letter came back marked,
“Deceased.” Dennis said that she, with four other nurses, had been killed in an
aircraft accident. But there is no record of any such aircraft accident that
took the lives of five Army nurses at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thompson wrote, “The
nurse was never identified.” However, Dennis, reluctantly, gave researchers the
name of the nurse. In fact, her name, Naomi Self or Selff, was well known among
those who were involved in research on the Roswell case. But no one could
verify that there was ever a nurse by that name in the Army, let alone
stationed in Roswell. The search expanded to the local hospitals with the same
results. Told that there was no nurse named Naomi Self, Dennis then said that
he hadn’t given anyone the right name, but then gave another one, which was a
major change in his story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The real point is that
the Dennis testimony about the nurse was discredited more than a quarter
century ago. That information has been published repeatedly. I covered in <i>The
Randle Report: UFOs in the 1990s</i>, published in 1997. I wrote then, “But
others, such as Glenn Dennis, who has been considered one of the important
witnesses, have begun to collapse. There is little that can be said except that
we have found nothing to confirm that his nurse exists or existed. And when
challenged on these points, be begins to change the tale.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In her book, Thompson
discusses other UFO events such as the Flatwood monster, Barney and Betty Hill
and the Rendlesham Forest encounter. I had thought about reviewing those
segments here as well, but this is getting longer than I intended. I will only
note here that she reports on the testimony of Larry Warren who claimed involvement
in the Rendlesham Forest events, but that testimony has been discredited.
Colonel Charles Halt noted that he didn’t remember Warren being there at all,
and that contrary to Warren’s statements, he did not approach the object in the
woods. Thompson does acknowledge this controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Peter Robbins, who
co-authored the book, <i>Left at East Gate</i> with Larry Warren, has since
repudiated Warren’s involvement the case. You can read Peter’s long entries
about his reasons for this here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/peter-robbins-explains-his-take-on-left_10.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/peter-robbins-explains-his-take-on-left_10.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/peter-robbins-explains-his-take-on-left.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/08/peter-robbins-explains-his-take-on-left.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those entries were
written by Peter and were posted to this blog with his permission. Thompson
does write about the controversy with Warren’s statements, but the account
might have been stronger if she had left Warren out of the discussion or
reduced him to a footnote. There were others, such as Jim Penniston and John
Burroughs, not to mention Charles Halt, who were clearly there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, this criticism
is a little bit nitpicky, but when dealing with a case where there is so much
information, testimony and legitimate players, it does seem to be a waste to
mention Warren at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I guess I must say that
I was disappointed in the quality of the reporting on the Roswell case, but
then it is quite complex and there have been dozens of books written about it.
I have contributed five of them, and, of course, mentioned the case in dozens
of magazine articles and appeared in a dozen or more documentaries and
television programs dealing with the crash. And if you look at my earlier work,
you’ll find errors in it that are the result of publishing preliminary data.
However, it just seems that a solid report on Roswell can be written. I saw
that she didn’t reference any of the skeptical books about the case and
mentioned <i>Witness to Roswell</i> by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt twice in the
bibliography of the Roswell case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The real problem is
that I know the mistakes made in the segments that deal with UFO related events
and I must wonder is there are similar problems with the other segments. Would
someone well versed in the Lost Colony of Roanoke be able to find significant
errors in the reporting? Or in the section about Amelia Earhart?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If this was a real
review, then I would note that the book is 373 pages long and is available from
Amazon both as an ebook and in a print version. There is no index but there are
footnotes which are not quite as comprehensive as I would like. It just strikes
me that this was a book written with no real passion for the subjects mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although I rarely
mention books that I do not like, the Roswell information was too far off the
mark to allow it to pass. Unfortunately, this is not a book that I would
recommend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-61631874137795492782023-12-05T12:33:00.000-08:002023-12-05T12:33:20.048-08:00Coast to Coast: APRO Files and Iowa Landing<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those new to the
field, they might not know much about the Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization (APRO), which was created by Coral Lorenzen in the early 1950s. At
that time there were two prominent UFO Organizations with APRO being one and the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) being the other.
There were dozens, if not hundreds of smaller, local organizations. I was a
member of the Denver UFO Society in the late 1960s, but that was a group that
operated in the Denver area and had no real investigation arm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfwRQgh6euZzajHaIrnO6I6ygvz9r0Bm06le_NBKS9CI8_KnZ3hJwGQvjz0hpbPnNXDnAJGanZjQcmhJoc8yITcA9gN0dQcViZay-wpXTkDzgOe9iIi14_YhTDB76_ScW5SsKfW4bdKBSxGV25TjI2q9BCQCDCNl5XsxSqcqcsOd__60/s241/Jim%20and%20Coral%20Lorenzen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="240" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizfwRQgh6euZzajHaIrnO6I6ygvz9r0Bm06le_NBKS9CI8_KnZ3hJwGQvjz0hpbPnNXDnAJGanZjQcmhJoc8yITcA9gN0dQcViZay-wpXTkDzgOe9iIi14_YhTDB76_ScW5SsKfW4bdKBSxGV25TjI2q9BCQCDCNl5XsxSqcqcsOd__60/w403-h405/Jim%20and%20Coral%20Lorenzen.jpg" width="403" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim and Coral Lorenzen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I mention APRO because
of its size, the membership in the thousands and Coral, and later Jim and Coral
Lorenzen published several good books about UFOs. Unlike NICAP, which seemed to
focus on Congressional investigations and pressing the Air Force for transparency,
though they certainly collected thousands of UFO reports, APRO focused on what
might have been seen as the fringe areas of UFO study early on. They collected
reports on landings and occupant sightings and were the first American
organization to research alien abduction cases. Although they had known about
the Vilas-Boas abduction in 1957, they didn’t report on it officially until the
1960s when the Barney and Betty Hill case was investigated. Interestingly,
Betty Hill contacted Don Keyhoe of NICAP about her sighting and abduction.
Eventually, her interest was diverted to APRO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point here is that
the files of NICAP, the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) and even
many if not most of the Project Blue Books files have been collected by various
civilian research and investigation organizations. The exception was the APRO
files. Upon the deaths of both Jim and Coral Lorenzen in the mid-1980s, the
files ended up in the hands of the Lorenzen children after. Attempts by various
organizations and individuals to obtain the files had been made over the years without
success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I provide this brief history
to put all this into context. As many know, David Marler, who has created the
National UFO Historical Records Center, a name that does not lend itself to an
easily pronounceable acronym, has announced the acquisition of the APRO
records. This means, that his Center is now the repository of the largest
collection of UFO records. This includes the records and investigative activities
of several foreign researchers and organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Marler, and his team
have been digitizing these records at the headquarters of the organization,
which means that searches for specific cases, and all relevant data will become
a searchable file, or as Marler wrote in his press release, the files are
digitized for electronic storage, analyzation, transfer and ease of access.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interestingly, there have
been, in the past, UFO researchers who guarded their records and files with a
tenacity that rivals various governmental agencies. That barrier seems to have
been broken to some extent now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, the important
point here is the transfer of the APRO files into Marler’s group. They are
currently located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and can be found at <a href="http://www.nufohrc.org/">www.nufohrc.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">APRO was the first UFO
organization to take reports of landing and alien beings seriously. They sent
the first investigators into Pascagoula to interview Charles Hickson and Calvin
Parker. And were in Socorro, New Mexico, within hours to interview Lonnie
Zamora about the UFO landing and occupant sighting there in 1964.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of those APRO cases
was a landing in rural Iowa on June 6, 1972. The witness, identified in the
APRO only as Mr. T., but his name was Edward Tieg. He said that a flash of
light caught his attention. He thought it was an airplane, but the object came
closer. He saw that it was egg shaped and as it began to land, legs grew out of
the bottom. He said that it was about ten to twelve feet in diameter and
fifteen to twenty feet tall. He said that it cast a shadow when it was sitting
on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAzjRwjVug2HQqagCTxDPvwaHNn0rTOw42gPqJCAcVBNgokjmRSBdSOL-_-RiuPDR0aTZQPFU3i6hQspC9t7taJPdznxjqnU58nC8PjYenHw0SXtUw2NlXJ4vlws9NoZtai82ahyjXaSQFnmSyEfQ9Yos8MCsEe2C4XcX-i_rs6VpN1o/s1697/Tieg%20Illustration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1697" data-original-width="1459" height="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAzjRwjVug2HQqagCTxDPvwaHNn0rTOw42gPqJCAcVBNgokjmRSBdSOL-_-RiuPDR0aTZQPFU3i6hQspC9t7taJPdznxjqnU58nC8PjYenHw0SXtUw2NlXJ4vlws9NoZtai82ahyjXaSQFnmSyEfQ9Yos8MCsEe2C4XcX-i_rs6VpN1o/w479-h557/Tieg%20Illustration.jpg" width="479" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of the sighting created by Edward Tieg.<br />From the files of Kevin Randle</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was about a hundred
yards away. A hatch opened and according to him, some people got out. The
beings were about five feet tall and were wearing a one-piece flying suit. They
messed around in the corn, returned to their ship and it took off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnQX2Cg75GchtdQ2T5gS6knRG2rCGEMepm_geJmBQiXU5r30U3YUhNWprhlHUYTB6uDzaCQKU7tw3_oQCcnUg31hNy8geKZiyjZ2MOaeFIHc_Wib6607IlgkkWCn0aBQxmbf3r5LtY5DXODILC9X7Rvn3Qp4neORmwDRrqpAZeUQQPUw/s577/Tieg%20People.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="577" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnQX2Cg75GchtdQ2T5gS6knRG2rCGEMepm_geJmBQiXU5r30U3YUhNWprhlHUYTB6uDzaCQKU7tw3_oQCcnUg31hNy8geKZiyjZ2MOaeFIHc_Wib6607IlgkkWCn0aBQxmbf3r5LtY5DXODILC9X7Rvn3Qp4neORmwDRrqpAZeUQQPUw/w487-h335/Tieg%20People.jpg" width="487" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Investigators on the landing site.<br />Photo by Kevin Randle.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He said that as it
lifted off, a blue flame shot out of the bottom, there was a roar and the legs
retracted. The corn stocks in that area looked as if they had been caught in a
whirlwind but they weren’t burned. I’ll note here that Lonnie Zamora talked
about a blue flame and a roar as that craft lifted off. I’m not sure if a
farmer in Iowa knew about a New Mexico policeman who described some of the same
features.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although reluctant to talk
about the sighting, he did provide an illustration of what he had seen. As
happens so often in UFO reports, there were no other witnesses to this
sighting, though there had been others in the area about the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-36566426326015219792023-11-22T15:19:00.000-08:002023-11-22T15:19:34.074-08:00Blogger's Note<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Blogger's note: Yes, I have derelict in posting here recently. Some of you know what a catastrophe year this has been... and it has not gotten much better. I have been diagnosed with cancer. It is not particularly aggressive and quite treatable, or I have been told. I am trying to kept up with my various commitments, but find my time taken up with other concerns here.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">I have been publishing this blog for many years and have found it to be fun, for the most part. I'll try to keep up with what is going on in the world of the UFO, I mean UAP, but sometimes I find it less exciting than it was.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">So, if I'm slow in getting back to you, or answering some of the questions posted to the comments, I hope you'll understand. Life just gets in the way.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">In the coming year, I hope to do a better job in adding to the information published here.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Oh, and one final comment that isn't related to the above. No, Project Mogul does not answer the questions about what fell at Roswell... just had to say that because I can't believe the number of smart people who have fallen for that nonsense. And I probably should say, that doesn't mean what fell was an alien spacecraft, only that we have eliminated all the terrestrial answer for the moment. </span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-58354424460367844142023-11-06T18:51:00.002-08:002023-11-06T18:51:44.832-08:00New Documentation for Roswell: The Easley Letter<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As anyone who has been following
the Roswell case knows, we, and by we, I mean Tom Carey, Don Schmitt and I,
have been searching for documentation for, literally, decades. We have, of
course, all the newspaper articles, the FBI Telex, and one or two hints of
something strange falling outside Roswell. We have no diaries, letters,
journals or other written statements from the time of the crash that mention
the crash. One of the possible exceptions is a magazine article written by Inez
Wilcox, wife of the sheriff, that mentions the little men. The problem is that
there is no date on it, and the article might have been written after the
Roswell crash became prominent in 1978. We need something from 1947.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpt13esXLAWwo8Ke4s9hzpn48evEomIDEtagUii9q0wAP0m0VknZB9RFQNlIuGmGNEWOT5-IMo3pjTkDj38NIVFDdANea56EZXGKhboba7dTr1KHMOHlq97Ca6k2iTdTSXmxhO2eHpEdOQvjehbrWxx1_AI_FMHt2acvyQx4xyjkEeqVg/s765/Kevin%20and%20Don%20on%20Impact%20Site.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="703" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpt13esXLAWwo8Ke4s9hzpn48evEomIDEtagUii9q0wAP0m0VknZB9RFQNlIuGmGNEWOT5-IMo3pjTkDj38NIVFDdANea56EZXGKhboba7dTr1KHMOHlq97Ca6k2iTdTSXmxhO2eHpEdOQvjehbrWxx1_AI_FMHt2acvyQx4xyjkEeqVg/w531-h578/Kevin%20and%20Don%20on%20Impact%20Site.JPG" width="531" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don and me on the Impact Site.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We did find a diary
that had been kept by Ruth Barnett. Her niece, Alice Knight told me that she
had found the diary in a box of material she had received after the death of
her aunt. The diary, a daily reminder book for the year 1947, was in there and
Ruth used it as a diary. She made entries for the entire year of 1947 and there
is no mention of any UFO crash on the Plains of San Agustin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stan Friedman, when I
met him so that we could copy the diary, suggested that Barney Barnett had been
warned about keeping quiet, so he wouldn’t have told Ruth about his adventures
over on the Plains. However, according to Vern Maltais, a good friend of Barnett,
said that he’d learned of the crash when Barney told him about it at
Thanksgiving. That suggests that Barnett wasn’t cowed by the orders to remain quiet,
and even if he hadn’t mentioned it in July, he was talking about it in November.
There is no notation in the diary about this amazing story that Barney had
shared with friends and family during that Thanksgiving get together. There is just
nothing said about it until Bill Moore interviewed Barnett’s boss after 1978.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other document, to
surface recently was the alleged diary of Jesse Marcel. This was a standard
Army “Memorandum” book that the Army handed out by the hundreds of thousands
over the years. I’d had several of them during my military career. Since that book
was found in Jesse Marcel’s the possessions, it might have provided a clue
about the crash. Unfortunately, once again, there was nothing in it to suggest
a crash. To make it worse, handwriting analysis suggested that Marcel had not
made the notations in the book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have learned in the
last several months there was another officer in the office with Marcel. Major
Dalton Smith was assigned to the 509<sup>th</sup> Bomb Group in 1947, and his office
number matches that of Marcel. I know nothing much about Smith, other than he
was there in 1947 and had the same number. It suggests to me that Smith might
be the author of the notations in the Memorandum book. And since the notations
aren’t all that personal, when Smith left the 509<sup>th</sup>, he left that
book behind… Or, when Marcel left, he threw it in box with other items. At any
rate, there is nothing of consequence in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The notable one exception to all this was a two-paragraph
mention in a <i>Saga</i> magazine article published in the Winter 1974 issue.
B. Ann Slate and Stan Friedman, in the article “UFO Battles the Air Force
Couldn’t Coverup,” report that Lydia Sleppy had said that her attempt to put
the story of the crash over the news wire had been interrupted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can read about that here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/05/lydia-sleppy-1973-interview.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/05/lydia-sleppy-1973-interview.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/03/reports-of-roswell-crash-before-jesse.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/03/reports-of-roswell-crash-before-jesse.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, we now reach the latest bit of corroboration. I
believe that I’m the only researcher to have ever interviewed Major Edwin
Easley, the base provost marshal in 1947. He would have been responsible for
security at the crash site and on the base. In my interviews, he told me,
several times that he couldn’t talk about it because he had been sworn to
secrecy. He said that he had promised the president he wouldn’t talk about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Skeptics, of course,
criticized the statement, wondering if the president would talk to a lowly
major. I was of the opinion Easley certainly could have made the promise to an emissary
of the president. Both Don and I had learned of several secret service agents
who had been dispatched to Roswell in 1947.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0k5fUMNMreAqMifASyg9IM3zWL6oWH8GKe76JCPtlr_wo0L9Vrw3xDjNbxCmVzEfa3_lXfmONB4FpuXp3bIJKty1v9KHuxcSTY2lrGSLIr_CdJZWIX_h0hkvfv3DmBcjDXmyT6SQbr7Y-L1TazXN-OqCngx9i1WM_G5M-HKtE11Z41I/s200/Major%20Edwin%20Easley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="145" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0k5fUMNMreAqMifASyg9IM3zWL6oWH8GKe76JCPtlr_wo0L9Vrw3xDjNbxCmVzEfa3_lXfmONB4FpuXp3bIJKty1v9KHuxcSTY2lrGSLIr_CdJZWIX_h0hkvfv3DmBcjDXmyT6SQbr7Y-L1TazXN-OqCngx9i1WM_G5M-HKtE11Z41I/w258-h356/Major%20Edwin%20Easley.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Major Edwin Easley</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a letter dated
December 30, 1947, and addressed to Colonel Blanchard, the Roswell base
commander, we do have some corroboration for Easley’s help. While the opening
paragraph seems to be seasonal boilerplate, meaning it talks about the season
and “Your efforts in our behalf repeatedly served to great advantage.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The second paragraph is
the important one. It says, “In these regards, Major Edwin D. Easley, Provost
Marshal and his able staff has been particularly helpful. Their intelligent
understanding of investigative problems, their devotion and their untiring diligence,
regardless of circumstances, had been directly responsible for the successful
conclusion of many difficult undertakings.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSB9XaQLS0RIc5jSyW-p2ugUIE3ElbWangVOBpsNT7q9LUOmIoDmwsvGPiCZH076o-0WhEpej_a5j-lO4jCTrou5D8zRf3ayHwE4Ljz8blewMW0JZA3eA8VrFOxhw2lEdz6LAfncQAzAJYRBYynYjBVy8KWkYHgrweBn6dTRCx5X1QiE/s3560/Easley%20Letter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3560" data-original-width="2784" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSB9XaQLS0RIc5jSyW-p2ugUIE3ElbWangVOBpsNT7q9LUOmIoDmwsvGPiCZH076o-0WhEpej_a5j-lO4jCTrou5D8zRf3ayHwE4Ljz8blewMW0JZA3eA8VrFOxhw2lEdz6LAfncQAzAJYRBYynYjBVy8KWkYHgrweBn6dTRCx5X1QiE/w476-h608/Easley%20Letter.jpg" width="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Easley Letter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While this can be
viewed as a generic “atta-boy” letter, it is relevant because of the timeframe,
1947, and that I currently know of no other event in which Easley would have
been involved in something with the Secret Service. It does underscore Easley’s
involvement and helps establish that Easley might well have promised the
president that he wouldn’t talk about it by making that promise to the Secret
Service representative rather to the president directly. As I have said, this
is the latest document relating to the Roswell crash and one of the few that we
have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-46026189246819119092023-10-19T14:22:00.000-07:002023-10-19T14:22:14.062-07:00Don Ecker's Opinion about Disclosure<p> <span style="text-align: justify;">Note: The following opinion is that of Don Ecker. He has spent decades investigating UFO sightings and events, has host hundreds of radio programs and has had his opinion and expertise sought by many who want to find the path to the truth. This article is published just as I received it, You can decide if you believe disclosure is close or that we are farther away than ever. Those who have listened to my radio show/podcast know where I stand on this. I suppose I should say, here is a different perspective.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Disclosure--A Dangle Just Out of Reach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>b</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">y Don Ecker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Disclosure! The “Great Holy Grail” of the UFO
movement. The UFO faithful have been expecting something profound since at
least<span style="color: red;"> </span>December, 2017. With the announcement of
the Nimitz battle group encounters with the “Tic-Tacs,” and then former Senator
Harry Reid’s disclosure of a secret Pentagon operation to investigate “aerial
anomalies,” for which he secured millions of dollars to finance, the
anticipation has been intense. For some<span style="color: red;">,</span> it has
been intense for well over 30 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdod_zYwbx_nh5H-ahO4A-QmxMc-BE3vhYNfpg-tYRpRbV6-HA5JMbVPAizV-4exVGIoM-QkgUb7KcSdT8f1LpkDJDgnMFI5j3uEt3Ctp5GM9yJcapPOLKmbk-mkXDBCa7VxjoqP3kpFgE-yvgX2uLNbWOvxxhMAfKnTsDWa__6FTCi8/s300/don%20vicki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="300" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdod_zYwbx_nh5H-ahO4A-QmxMc-BE3vhYNfpg-tYRpRbV6-HA5JMbVPAizV-4exVGIoM-QkgUb7KcSdT8f1LpkDJDgnMFI5j3uEt3Ctp5GM9yJcapPOLKmbk-mkXDBCa7VxjoqP3kpFgE-yvgX2uLNbWOvxxhMAfKnTsDWa__6FTCi8/w551-h412/don%20vicki.jpg" width="551" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don and Vicki Ecker</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The beginning of what is thought to be the modern UFO
age hit the front pages of newspapers all across the United States--and then
the world--around the July 4, 1947. The incident was the purported crash of a
UFO outside of Roswell, New Mexico. At that time, Roswell was the military base
of the Army Air Corps 509<sup>th</sup> Bomber Command, the only military
organization in the world with nuclear capability. The 509<sup>th</sup> sent
out a press release that the “Army” had recovered a “flying disc,” which in
itself created a firestorm. A day later, the military command emptied the
“Roswell Saucer,” claiming that what was actually found was a “weather
balloon.” The lying has not ended since that day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1947 was an incredible year for many reasons. Just
weeks after the July 4 crash, a number of earth-shattering events
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The United States Army Air
Corps became the United States Air Force. The Central Intelligence Agency was
created and, perhaps most ominous of all, the National Security Act was placed
into law. In effect, the American Republic was replaced, in worst case
scenario, with a police state. Today, in the second decade of the 21<sup>st</sup>
Century, that police state has become very apparent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s take a moment to examine the National Security
Act and what it means. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At the height of the Second World War, U.S. officials
greatly feared that the Nazi German state was attempting to develop and build a
bomb using a nuclear core that would release an unknown amount of energy. In
other words, the very energy that fires our star, the sun, would be released by
exploding such a nuclear weapon. At that time, the Nazis harbored a bitter
hatred for Jews and others they viewed as sub-human; arresting, imprisoning and
murdering every Jew and other sub-human they could lay their hands on. As a
result, the Jewish intelligentsia sought every means to escape Germany before
it was too late. People like Albert Einstein escaped to the United States, and
it was well he did<span style="color: red;">;</span> Einstein was the final cap
on the bottle that convinced President Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan
Project, which ended up winning the war for us and saving millions of humans,
both allied soldiers and Japanese civilians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Even at the height of the most destructive war in all
of human history and the most secret military project ever, we did not have or
create a decisive federal hedge against exposure such as the National Security
Act. What changed? Under the auspices of the National Security Act almost
anything the controllers feel protects national security can be legally
authorized and<span style="color: red;"> </span>carried out. If it is determined
an imminent threat to U.S. national security is at stake, even premeditated
murder is legal. One might think this is draconian in the extreme, but the <span style="color: red;">l</span>ongstanding<span style="color: red;"> </span>UFO
problem<span style="color: red;"> </span>clearly qualifies as potentially that
sensitive. If Roswell was the site of a crash of one, and others may intrude on
U.S. air space<span style="color: red;">, </span>how far will the
military/intelligence/industrial forces go?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What are these unidentified phenomena?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do UFOs (now designated
UAPS—unidentified aerial phenomena) come from<span style="color: red;">, </span>and
most importantly just what is it that they want? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">From our earliest written history, witnesses have been
reporting sightings and even contact with the occupants of these mysterious
machines. Yes, machines. Our military pilots of today report that these craft
travel at almost impossible speeds, demonstrate impossible maneuvers and
technology that almost appear magical within our understanding of avionics and
physics. During the Nimitz encounters, radar operators reported that the
objects dropped from an excess of 80 thousand feet to almost water level in
only a second or so, a truly breathtaking maneuver. They out-flew our Naval
F-18 Super Hornets with extreme ease, demonstrating that if hostilities broke
out, we are totally outclassed by this purported UFO technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So, what is going on? The most potent human military
technology (it is believed) currently available are human nuclear weapons. But
even that is questionable, even if nuclear weapons are capable of being a
deterrent. The UFO enigma has proved to be able to penetrate nuclear bases with
impunity and manipulate the weapons to the point that they are unusable. This
shocking revelation was disclosed in the excellent book by researchers and
authors Barry Greenwood and Larry Fawcett. (CLEAR INTENT: The Government
Coverup, First published January, 1984) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As it turns out, the United States is not the only
nation to suffer UFO incursions into nuclear weapons sites. After the collapse
of the Soviet Union, television journalist and UFO researcher George Knapp
traveled to the former Soviet Union where he interviewed former and current
Russian military personnel. Knapp reported the story of a UFO incursion over a
former Soviet nuclear battery, where the unknown object activated a nuclear
missile control panel and began a countdown. With only seconds to go, the UFO
then apparently stopped the countdown and flew off. This was apparently a pure
demonstration that if they chose to, they had complete control<span style="color: red;"> </span>of the most powerful and delicate systems available
to humanity at that time. Was this a warning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to humanity at large? “Beware humans, we are in charge.”<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #00b0f0;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The CORE STORY/CORE SECRET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For all the hopeful ufologists waiting and hoping for
UFO disclosure, what if I told you the real somewhat open secret of the UFO
conundrum is actually the fact that UFOs are surrounded by a CORE STORY which
is protected by a Special Access Program binder? An SAP designation means that
unless you have a “need to know”-- you never will. A perfect example of this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(The following information comes from Gary S. Bekkum’s
excellent primer on Spy Games: “SPIES, LIES, AND POLY GRAPH TAPE, Knowing the
Future: The UFO Spy Games” Gary S. Bekkum. c. 2010, Gary S. Bekkum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>p. 16)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A “core secret” is so sensitive,
its very existence is a secret. In the U.S. Intelligence Community,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the tale of an extraterrestrial presence is
known as the CORE STORY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
bit of alleged information to be aware of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The strong rumor is there is a `disturbing’
aspect to this CORE STORY, something so dire it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leaves battle-hardened military types shaking
in their boots.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If
any of this is even remotely true, the Disclosure ship sailed away long-long
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dr. Edgar
Mitchell, the sixth American astronaut to walk on the moon, became embroiled in
the UFO controversy in what today is a rather infamous incident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following is taken from a paper I wrote
on what today is known as the “Davis-Wilson” document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mitchell [Dr. Edgar Mitchell, 6th astronaut to walk on the
Moon] spoke of his contact with a ranking Admiral at the Joint Chiefs who
agreed to investigate the CORE STORY of alien contact and report back. Some
reporters were miffed when Mitchell refused to disclose the name of the
Admiral, but Mitchell did provide to me confirmation that another report was
‘essentially correct.’<br />
Mitchell requested my help in clarifying why his testimony appeared to be
contradicted by the Admiral, who had been identified by the <i>Herald Tribune</i>
as Rear Admiral Thomas R. Wilson.<br />
Quoting an article taken from the prestigious <i>Jane’s Defence Weekly</i>,
Mitchell implied that the Admiral had discovered that the CORE STORY was
protected by a “Special Access Program.” As explained by <i>Jane’s</i>, such a “black
program” must remain unacknowledged when it is “considered so sensitive that
the fact of its existence is a CORE SECRET, defined as `any item, progress,
strategy or element of information, the compromise of which would result in
unrecoverable failure.’ ”<br />
As I write this paper, once again the subject of UFOs has exploded across the
USA and especially social media. Two items have rejuvenated interest in the
UFO/Paranormal/PSI arenas of late: The History Channel series “Unidentified”
and the release of notes from an alleged meeting between Dr. Eric Davis (formerly
of the National Institute for Discovery Science, NIDS, founded and operated by
Robert Bigelow) and Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, former head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.<br />
Taking an overhead view of this material, many names are apparently involved,
and it is very complex situation. Prominent is Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with journalist Billy Cox,
futurist and occasional “rogue” journalist Gary Bekkum, Wilson and Davis. Other
prominent individuals include UFO researcher Grant Cameron and Attorney Michael
Hall, who had released the Davis/Wilson “notes” that Davis allegedly made
during a covert meeting he had with Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, which occurred in
the parking lot of the Las Vegas headquarters of EG&G on Oct. 16, 2002.
Also mentioned are retired Naval Officer Oke Shannon and retired Naval Officer
Will Miller. The notes indicate that in April of 1997, Steven Greer, Miller and
Edgar Mitchell gave a talk in the Pentagon Conference room to a number of
military officers, including Admiral Mike Crawford and General Pat Hughes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The shortened version had
Mitchell meeting Admiral Thomas Wilson who at that time headed up the DIA
(Defense Intelligence Agency). According to Mitchell, Wilson told him he would
attempt to follow up with his contacts within the Pentagon, and allegedly his
inquiries led to an aviation corporation in California. Wilson is reported to
have called them, but they refused to discuss anything over a telephone line.
(It was implied that this unnamed corporation had “recovered technology” they
were studying.) Wilson, according to notes found in Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s papers
after he died, then flew out to California to the corporation. After arriving,
he was taken to a “secure vault” where he tried to get information. According
to the notes recovered from Mitchell’s papers, while in Las Vegas Wilson told
Eric Davis that they would not give him any information since he did not have a
“need to know.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wilson left California
enraged. Upon returning to the Pentagon, Wilson was prepared to raise some holy
hell until cooler heads pulled him aside, reminding him he did not have long
until he retired. Did he really wish to risk his retirement,</span> pension and
perhaps even receiving another star prior to leaving? Wilson then decided to
quiet down.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">So, if the
subject of UFOs does contain a “Core Secret,” then the subject is protected by
an SAP (Special Access Program.) If a Special Access Program is in play, even
acknowledging one is aware of it is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">major</i> breach of security. Despite its
great national security implications, this appears to fall outside of the U.S. President’s
“need to know.” This was demonstrated publicly by former President William
“Bill” Clinton when Clinton reportedly tried to get Asst. Attorney General
Webster Hubble to find out two things for him: Who really assassinated
President Kennedy, and . . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what is the
truth about UFOs? Hubble was completely shut out and Clinton got an answer to neither.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As time
moved along I struggled with what this “Core Secret” might entail. Over the
course of 30 years I had interfaced with and interviewed possibly hundreds of
people. During all that time, I heard many theories mixed with rumors of what
might be the “real reason” for the draconian secrecy. Some of these conspiracy
and rumor mill stories included amazing things like dead and mutilated human
beings having been found on crashed saucers, or the presence of an ET
conspiracy to replace highly placed humans with hybrid clones. And more! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Then …
Ingo Swann entered the scene.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In the
very early 1990s, while acting as research director for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">UFO Magazine</i>, I began my first foray into broadcasting with my
program “UFOs Tonite!,” which was carried on Cable Radio Network. Around early
1992, I did two shows with different guests, both shows dealing with lunar or moon
phenomena, also known as Lunar Transient Phenomena. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became aware of many questions and events
that suggested there was some type of activity taking place on our moon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prior</i> to the Apollo 11 touchdown. Both
guests mentioned a book that had been first published in 1976, titled “Somebody
Else is on the Moon” by author and science writer George Leonard. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Leonard
used many photographs directly obtained from NASA that showed startling images
on the surface of the moon. These photos show what appear to be excavations of
crater rims, indicating that huge vehicles had rolled up and out of lunar
craters, leaving vivid tracks in the lunar soil, and what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appear to be structures, possibly constructed
buildings. Prior to the manned lunar landing, NASA contracted out to academia a
study to be conducted on lunar observations as reported by astronomers
beginning as far back as 1540 A.D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hundreds of lunar anomalies were reported and documented in the NASA
Technical Report, TR-R-277. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Leonard’s
book disappeared almost as soon as it was published. As important as this book
would prove to be, it later became a bit more important as it seemed to provide
validation for a top- secret remote viewing session run by deep black
intelligence officers and remote viewing legend Ingo Swann, which I’ll discuss
in greater detail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When NASA
finally landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, what did they expect to find? Only
they know for sure, but I discovered that the astronauts were armed when they
landed on the moon. At first I found it hard to believe that the astronauts had
weapons on board the lunar lander. I ended up calling their public affairs
office and they finally admitted it. At that time, they tried to explain it by
suggesting that if the astronauts crashed into a jungle somewhere, they had to
have a means to protect themselves. I mentioned that our space program had no
landings on the earth surface--everything landed in the oceans! They had no
coherent response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During the
early Apollo period, many publications ran news articles on what was planned
after successfully landing on the moon. We were told of future lunar colonies,
manufacturing facilities, even military installations being planned. After
Apollo 11 landed and the astronauts returned, there were five more missions
that landed and returned, with only one failure--Apollo 13. By intensive NASA
brain sweat we (the United States) were able to return them safely. Finally,
with the final Apollo 17 mission (December, 1972), the Apollo program was
canceled, even though other missions were planned. The rockets were built and
the astronauts were trained, yet NASA pulled the plug. The reasoning NASA gave
was as convoluted as any statement coming from government. They claimed that
the American public now saw lunar missions as so routine they’d simply lost
interest—so without public support, the agency canceled it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During
this fiery political year, the Viet Nam war was still raging and anti-war
sentiment rife in the American public. Richard Nixon was running again as president
against challenger George McGovern. Nixon steamrolled McGovern but more was to
come on the political front: the Watergate scandal. As Watergate began to
percolate in the news media, the rumor mill also began to pick up steam. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stories began to float that the Apollo 11 crew
witnessed activity on the moon that they were forbidden to disclose. It was
rumored that when Apollo 11 returned to Earth, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael Collins were sequestered and kept incommunicado for several weeks. NASA
claimed that the astronauts were kept in isolation because of the fear that
they may have brought back alien organisms that we on Earth had no natural
resistance or immunity to. When the astronauts were finally allowed to address
the American public in their first news conference, they seemed deeply troubled
and depressed. Later, Armstrong became a recluse, Aldrin developed an alcohol
addiction and Collins basically slid into anonymity. (Aldrin subsequently
became clean and sober.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In 2014 on
the 45<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I was hired as a research
producer on a SyFy Channel television show titled “Aliens on the Moon: The
Truth Revealed.” After well over 20 years of lunar research, I was able to take
much of my material to this show. At the insistence of the network, some material
was included which I vociferously disagreed with. Unfounded segments claimed
that top secret missions were sent to the moon following Apollo 11, including
Apollo 18 to Apollo 20. This included the “Alien Mona Lisa,” what I consider pure
disinformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One real coup on this
show was the inclusion of former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second human being
to step onto the moon during the first landing of Apollo 11. Aldrin’s interview
followed mine where I presented a number of lunar photos potentially showing various
anomalies. When the camera turned to Aldrin, I was absolutely shocked at his
reaction. As the lunar photos were placed in front of him, he violently twisted
his head to the side and refused to look at the pictures or discuss anything
about them. He was willing to discuss future missions to Mars, more
specifically the Martian moon Phobos. There is an odd protrusion on the Martian
moon that some call an obelisk, the only seeming anomaly Aldrin would address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Now going
a little farther back in time. With the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik
satellite in 1957, the U.S. and the western alliance went into panic mode.
There was a genuine fear of a “missile gap,” that the Soviets could launch
nuclear weapons able to hit almost any target in under 30 minutes. <span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>In those early
days of the latter 1950s, our missiles experienced a huge failure rate, often
exploding on launch. In the 1960s, with reports coming out of Europe of the
Soviet Union researching psychic and paranormal phenomena, the west once again
feared a gap, this one involving a race to understand and exploit paranormal phenomena.
The CIA suddenly sat up and took notice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In 1972,
with CIA funding, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ began collaborating at
Stanford Research Institute to explore the “remote viewing” phenomenon. (At
that time, Puthoff was closely associated with the Church of Scientology which
later proved to be a huge embarrassment.) Remote viewing is the rarefied skill
of “projecting one’s mind” to “view” distant objects, events or people in real
time. Later it became apparent that some sessions could also include viewings seemingly
from past or even future events, sometimes called “spooky action at a distance.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In 1972, Ingo
Swann was recruited to Stanford Research Institute, or SRI. At the time, Swann
had been a fast-rising star in New York’s American Society for Psychical
Research, also known as ASPR. Upon arrival, Swann was asked to use his psychic
talent attempt to manipulate a magnetic field within a magnetic shield. His
efforts were successful, seemingly with little effort. He also met another man who
was regarded as a “super-star,” Pat Price, whose remote viewing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attempts were described as “scary accurate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I found one troubling commonality-- that all
these people were either members of or closely associated with the controversial
Church of Scientology, though I’m not sure what it could mean.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As time
went on, Swann began working with Puthoff and Targ on what Swann felt was a
continuous string of mundane targets. As Swann explained in his book “PENETRATION–The
Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy,” sampling repetitive targets can
lead to boredom, ultimately “flatlining” the PSI talent. With this in mind,
Swann suggested targets well beyond the boundaries of targets in the next
office. NASA had launched two probes, Pioneer 10 and 11, to explore the outer
planets. His idea was resisted by Puthoff and Targ, so Swann took the only step
he had left in him: He threatened to quit. Puthoff and Targ relented, but with
some conditions. The first expected data to arrive from the NASA probes were to
be in September, 1973. To beat NASA there first, Swann knew that they had to
start quickly, so his attempt at viewing such a far target began in April,
1973.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Stringent
protocols were employed, although this was not an official test. It was
conducted on his personal time on a Saturday, a non-working day. With the
conclusion of this experiment, the raw data was recorded and circulated far and
wide and included two scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The
raw data consisted of 13 factors, all verified. It was still early in the
program, so Swann’s accuracy was astounding to everyone involved in the remote
viewing project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of the number
of troubling unsettling aspects of his job, one must be highlighted and
detailed. Swann’s remote viewing “job” came at the behest of a deep black
“intelligence” agency he originally feared could assassinate him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In 1998,
Swann’s just-published book “PENETRATION” arrived in our offices at UFO
Magazine.” The book describes his role designing the protocols for what was
known as Project Stargate, a remote viewing program that was discovered to have
been in operation for 20 plus years using military remote viewers. Stargate had
been under the auspices of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central
Intelligence Agency, and had been continuously included in federal budget the
entire time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, the CIA and DIA
were getting value from the program. Yet once the program became public, the CIA
released a statement that Project Stargate had been canceled, which I find
impossible to believe. It makes much more sense that the program had been
transferred to another agency, like the National Security Agency (NSA), and
this public disclosure was simply an attempt to obfuscate the facts and reality
of what the intelligence agencies were really doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Today we
know that what became the Stargate program was taken very seriously by
government, and the people and groups involved prove this beyond doubt. They
include—and may not be limited to--CIA, the U.S. Navy and Army, U.S. Missile
Command, the U.S. Air Force, the National Security Agency, the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and many other government clients that included the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. So serious was the program and its success that “superstars”
Swann and Pat Price were tasked to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remotely view what turned out to be a “super-black”
NSA facility in West Virginia. Price even managed to view files, case names and
some of the people working there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This weird,
ongoing spy opera reached new heights in 1975, when Swann was notified by an
acquaintance that he would shortly receive a phone call from an unidentified
source. He was to follow the caller’s instructions “to the letter.” A few weeks
later at 3 a.m., Swann did receive this telephone call instructing him to
travel to Washington DC. He was sent to the National History Museum where he was
contacted by two operatives, then blindfolded and taken to a car that drove him
to a helicopter where he was flown to an unknown destination and deposited in
an underground facility. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Once
there, Swann’s blindfold was removed and he was escorted to a room where he was
met by a man who called himself “Axelrod.” Axelrod wanted Swann to conduct a
remote viewing session on an unnamed target, for which he was offered the enormous
sum of $1,000 per day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I was to
learn more when around 2002 Swann came to the west coast to visit family. He
had a friend call me to see if I and my wife were available to have dinner. We
met him and a friend in a small Italian restaurant for a very memorable
evening. I had originally met Ingo in New Jersey while giving a lecture on my
Lunar Transient Phenomenon research, and as I was to find out, his lunar
interest was of the utmost importance to him. By this time I had read and
re-read his book, and my questions were many. (Swann had questions for me also.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Whoever
they were, these operatives knew Swann to a “T”. They even had a supply of
Swann’s favorite cigars on hand. Swann accepted Axelrod’s proposal, and after a
night’s rest and “a good meal,” he began his task. After breakfast they retired
to the room Swann was to use for the session, where he learned the target was
the moon. This concerned him, as he always made it clear he needed feedback on
what he viewed. Axelrod assured him he would get feedback and they proceeded on
the “mission.” All while sitting in a room and following his original
remote-viewing protocols, Swann described his mind’s “flight” to the Moon, then
“landing” on the lunar surface facing Earth. He described “standing” near a
high cliff formation, maybe a very tall, natural cliff on the moon. Axelrod then
gave him his first set of coordinates. Trying twice, suddenly Swann was “there,”
standing in lunar darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Getting
acclimated to the dark scene, he looked around and was surprised by seeing odd
puffs in the lunar soil. He described these funny markings as almost looking at
wind-driven sand on the beach, except there’s no wind on the moon. He realized
they looked like machine-driven tread marks. He became confused, thinking at
first somehow he transported back to Earth. Then he observed what appeared to
be a bank of lights similar to what one would see at a sports stadium. Now very
worried, he first thought maybe the Soviet Union had built a lunar base. But as
he saw more, a realization hit him that moved him to tears. He was observing buildings,
towers, tall structures of some type and what appeared to be living habitats.
Swann wrote that he finally “lost it” when he next observed a crater that
appeared to be covered by a transparent green dome. Looking down, Swann
observed humanoids working on the lunar soil. Suddenly one of the figures
stopped, turned around and looked up, then another and another until they all
stopped working and began pointing and looking up. Shocked, Swann, told Axelrod
what he was “seeing” and then Axelrod quietly but firmly told Swann to stop and
return immediately. Still reeling from the shock of seeing what appeared to be
living beings on the moon, Swann realized not only were the beings <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there, but they were also very highly psychic
since the beings knew he was seeing them when Swann wasn’t really, physically
there. He later told me they weren’t friendly and seemed angry. He spent the next
four to five months terrified these “aliens” might track him down and “fry his
brain.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The moon
continued to engage federal interest and money. After 22 years since the last moon
mission, Apollo 17 in January, 1994, the Department of Defense’s Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and NASA launched the Clementine Mission,
its twofold task to do a flyby of an asteroid and to completely re-photograph
and map the moon. Clementine was outfitted with the most powerful cameras
available (think of our first line spy satellites), able to capture images in
various spectrums, and hypothetically able to read a license plate from orbit,
providing any license plates were on the moon’s surface! During this mission,
2.5 million photographs were taken, all at the behest of the BMDO. I contacted
and spoke with the assistant director of Clementine, who informed me that all Clementine’s
photographs were beamed to a separate department inside the mission quarters,
and unless you held the proper security clearance, the photographs were
classified. I was told by my source that even the director wasn’t cleared to
see these lunar photographs. With the exception of literally a handful of them--nondescript
photos such as unnamed craters and landscapes--the photos are blurry, seemingly
void of resolution in the extreme. Images arriving from satellites such as the
KH-11 or similar spy satellites with such blurry, indistinct resolution is
unheard of. Usually, the clarity of such clear images can be truly scary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">So, to sum
up: With the advent of Clementine, it had been over two decades since the
Apollo Program had shut down. In the aftermath of the 1968 NASA TR-R-277
anomaly report, the many rumors of what the Apollo astronauts might have
observed, verification that the lunar astronauts carried weapons to the moon,
Buzz Aldrin’s shocking refusal to look at lunar photographs, and after the DOD
and NASA go back to the moon to completely re-photograph and map the lunar
surface—again—what can we conclude,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if
anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">While
considering this I recalled my time in Viet Nam. Many times during that
conflict, American reconnaissance aircraft would spot what was thought to be a
new enemy site or installation, photograph it and perhaps attack it. Or the
decision would be to simply wait for a while then go back and photograph it
again. These photos would then be taken to the intelligence section for study
and analysis. The intel officials would look for any noticeable changes--new
buildings, vehicles, equipment, instillations for troops, and so on. I have no
doubt that in the case of the Clementine photos, this is exactly what the BMDO
was looking for, and I am further convinced one of their objectives was to
scrutinize the images<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for anything—or
anyone--they consider a possible ET threat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Such a
stark realization has not escaped professional attention. Dr. Avi Loeb, the
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harvard University</span></a>,
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">is an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelis" title="Israelis"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Israeli</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">-</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans" title="Americans"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics" title="Theoretical physics"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">theoretical
physicist</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> who
works on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics" title="Astrophysics"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">astrophysics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_cosmology" title="Physical cosmology"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">cosmology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute
for Theory and Computation at the university’s </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics" title="Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Center for Astrophysics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
In 2018, he suggested that extraterrestrial spacecraft may currently be in the
solar system, using the example of the interstellar object Oumuamua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his radical speculation came under
very heavy criticism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This did
not deter Dr. Loeb’s open-minded exploration. He founded The Galileo Project in
an effort to perform a systematic search for evidence of ET artifacts within
our solar system. Then in June of 2023, well after the U.S. Department of
Defense’s 2014 detection of a fireball streaking to earth, he announced that he
and his group had retrieved material off the ocean floor near New Guinea. It is
believed that this object came into the solar system from interstellar space
because of the excessive rate of speed this object demonstrated--in excess of
45 km. per second. Dr. Loeb theorized that this could be the part of an ET
interstellar starship. The debris retrieved from the ocean was telling. Upon close
examination, the stuff showed elements of Cl (Chlorine), Si (Silicon), Be
(Beryllium), Li (Lithium), U (Uranium), and finally Fe (Iron), all in a pure
state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Physicist Dr.
John Brandenburg, with his background in nuclear weapons research, advanced
propulsion systems and his reputation as a Mars authority, found Loeb’s
chemical analysis very intriguing. He performed his own analysis in graphic
form and sent it to me. He explained this to me, but in relatively complex
scientific terms, “Therefore,” he said, “Solar/ Cl (Chlorine) indicates [a]
shared pattern of relative elemental abundances. Be, (Beryllium) Li (Lithium)
and U (Uranium) can be seen as being very rare elements. Fe (Iron) is fairly
common in the universe, as are Al (Aluminum) and Ti (Titanium). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plotting the ratio of abundances of elements
relative to Si in a sample from outer space and then, in turn, its ratio to the
ratio of relative abundance found in Cl is a measure of the `strangeness’ of a
sample versus the natural cosmic background composition as represented by the sun.
We will represent this `strangeness’ measure by EQ/Cl , where EQ means relative
abundance of element Q to Si in a sample, and Cl represents the relative
abundance of element Q to Si in the Cl. If this `strangeness’ ratio of ratios
is much different than 1, indicating a substantial deviation from the Solar/Cl
pattern of relative abundances, it<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> could</i>
indicate a sample is actually a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">technologically
produced </i>material rather than a product of nature.” (Italics added)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Brandenburg
further theorizes, “These elements could mean that the fireball could have come
from an artificial craft, perhaps damaged, and the elements are what could be
indicative of something like a landing gear.” However, the most terrifying
possibility Brandenburg proposed was that this “object” had within it the
components of a nuclear weapon. This above all would deeply trouble the national
security state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
original purpose of this paper was to explore whether we might be on the verge
of mass public disclosure of the reality of the UFO phenomenon, or at least in
the near future. I must answer this speculative desire with a resounding NO.
Front and center, and with years of exposure to the topic, we must be aware
that at the very least this UFO/UAP phenomenon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is very likely buried as a CORE secret, shielded and protected by a
Special Access Program. The individuals in charge know something that terrifies
them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if </i>it were to become public
knowledge. Since public awareness of the Nimitz battle group encounters in 2004
and the late Sen. Harry Reid’s disclosure of getting finances for the ATTIP
program, one branch of the uniformed military services has avidly kept mum: the
United States Air Force. The Air Force, presumably the people in charge of UFO
investigations since 1947, have discussed or released <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nothing</i> about the phenomenon, other than some diversionary
rationales or explanations. So far the CORE Secret appears secure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I’ve
thought about this a great deal and played many theories in my mind as to what
the exact UFO secret might be. As I listened to purported “insider” David
Grusch testify before Congress, one thing struck a nerve. He claims that he was
told that the government has recovered at least a dozen off-world vehicles, and
now has them in storage. If so, and if any of these vehicles are from another
star system, the technology must be beyond belief—well beyond our own
state-of-the-art technology. Does it make sense that these craft could travel
light years to finally arrive at Earth, to then just break down? That makes no
sense. But having survived two deployments to S.E. Asia during the violent Viet
Nam war, I find this could make sense: Such “broken down” off-world vehicles
might be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">combat wreckage</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Over the
decades I have been made aware of many witnessed accounts of UFOs in conflict
with one another. In 1991 and 1992, I broke two stories of what seemed to be
hostile action having been observed then reported by reliable witnesses. The
Soviet Union’s Phobos 2 probe was reportedly rammed and destroyed by a huge,
unknown object observed in Mars orbit. Also consider the STS-48 space shuttle mission,
where an unknown UFO was filmed taking drastic action to avoid what could only
have been a weapons firing of some type. ET war in close space to Earth? Yes,
that would be an excellent reason to shield the populace from the present
threat posed by UFO reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To sum up,
I cannot forget Ingo Swann’s rumination to me in one of our last conversations,
and which he highlighted in his book “PENETRATION” (page 83). “Perhaps there
was a space opera going on in which two different sets of ETs were fighting
some kind of war here on Earth – while both at the same time were somehow
ensuring that humans never realize that they, themselves, are psychic.” Remember,
Swann was convinced the ETs he encountered on the moon during remote viewing found
humans with psychic ability a threat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Full disclosure
in our lifetime? It will never be allowed to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Links:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Davis-Wilson
Memo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20074164-wilson-davis-document<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">SRI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dr. Hal
Puthoff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dr.
Russell Targ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ingo Swann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pat
Price's Death<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://rense.com/general9/stranged.htm"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://rense.com/general9/stranged.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Clementine
Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dr. Avi
Loeb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Galileo Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Serving
as its Director of Research and Media Liaison for 20 years, Don Ecker became
the voice of what is considered the most journalistic American publication on
the UFO subject, UFO Magazine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(now out
of print). Beginning in 1991, Ecker began broadcasting his first hit show, “UFOs
Tonite!” on the Cable Radio Network. Later his shows moved to the Liberty Works
Network, Satellite Radio, then CyberstationUSA and finally KGRAdb. Ecker is a
U.S. Army veteran of the Viet Nam War Upon returning home he became a Police
Officer and later a Criminal Investigator</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-1942213177497158302023-10-12T13:56:00.002-07:002023-10-12T15:01:36.928-07:00The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pascagoula Abduction<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyone who has read
much of my writing about UFOs knows that I’m not a big fan of alien abduction
reports. I mention this because yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of what
is probably the best documented case of abduction. That is the case of Charles
Hickson and Calvin Parker in Pascagoula, Mississippi on October 11, 1973. They
were taken on board a glowing craft, examined, and then released. They went to
the sheriff, were later interviewed by James Harder and Allen Hynek, and
subjected to a polygraph examination. I have interviewed both Hickson and, much
more recently, Parker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3dZ-Vz5MLO1mixEcf80DpgfMW1Qw5KzElct8GYsY9o-gQTbuvyOpLXmpCs8v6a_qSMXllZRgqtbsV50y-yHvctL05ftTpJ7jSpqtIS1Q7MODaffWEKgExskvICYvw38pwishfMC7ojSbwkVGSQUIlM9PiwIyvE7WoCwdZ6Jo6CHaY14/s1008/Hickson%20Parker%20young.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1008" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3dZ-Vz5MLO1mixEcf80DpgfMW1Qw5KzElct8GYsY9o-gQTbuvyOpLXmpCs8v6a_qSMXllZRgqtbsV50y-yHvctL05ftTpJ7jSpqtIS1Q7MODaffWEKgExskvICYvw38pwishfMC7ojSbwkVGSQUIlM9PiwIyvE7WoCwdZ6Jo6CHaY14/w563-h379/Hickson%20Parker%20young.jpg" width="563" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker in 1973</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Here's what is
important. Fifty years ago today, they were taken to Keesler Air Force Base to
be tested for radioactive contamination. None was found, but some of the top
officers on the base subjected them to an interrogation. This was four years
after the Air Force said that they were no longer investigating UFO sightings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">During that
interrogation, it came out that there were other witnesses to the abduction. A
document created by the Air Force, fifty years ago today, listed the names of
the officers involved, also provide the names of two civilian witnesses who had
seen something strange in the location and at the time of the abduction. In one
of those cases, the witness was driving over a bridge near the site and in the
car were two additional witnesses. In other words, within hours of the abduction,
the four additional witnesses had been found and that information was recorded
in an official Air Force document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Through the work of
Philip Mantle and Dr. Irene Scott, more witnesses have been located in the last
six or seven years. Unfortunately, it can be said they were inspired by some of
the recent publicity about case and that was why we are just learning about
them. You can find their book here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/BEYOND-REASONABLE-DOUBT-Pascagoula-Abduction-ebook/dp/B0BPYXM6CW/ref=sr_1_6?crid=199SB0MYKOHDG&keywords=Calvin+Parker&qid=1697143203&sprefix=calvin+parker%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-6">https://www.amazon.com/BEYOND-REASONABLE-DOUBT-Pascagoula-Abduction-ebook/dp/B0BPYXM6CW/ref=sr_1_6?crid=199SB0MYKOHDG&keywords=Calvin+Parker&qid=1697143203&sprefix=calvin+parker%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-6</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, this is the
best case for alien abduction. There are multiple independent witnesses, there
was a military investigation, scientific research, and no good terrestrial
explanation for what happened. If not for those other, earlier witnesses, this
case would be easy to write off. You can find Calvin Parker’s book about his
experiences on Amazon, along with additional books by Mantle and Scott, and my
own book, <i>1973</i>, that covers this abduction, other abductions in the same
year, and a look at the wave of sightings that took place in the fall of 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course, there are
some interesting sightings that are not a half century old. Stan Gordon
reported on his UFO Anomalies Zone website that on September 3 of this year a witness in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, said that her dog, which is deaf,
was looking up into the sky. There was light shining down and hovering and about
three hundred feet over the building was a large, triangular-shaped object with
rounded corners. She said that the surface of the UFO had a flat black matte
color. She had a clear view of the underside and said there were no individual
lights on the UFO. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As the craft hovered,
she could hear a deep but barely audible humming and then a single click as the
craft began to move. It suddenly accelerated until it looked like a smudge. She
said that it just vanished.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ll note here that the
dog did react to the craft, and it could have been that low humming vibration
that attracted its attention. There were
other sightings in the area and one in which the witness mentioned the
dog’s reaction which was similar to that in the first report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">You can learn more
about this case, and the others from around Pennsylvania here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2023/10/09/solid-black-triangular-ufo-uap-hovers-low-over-pennsylvania-building/" target="_blank">Solid Black Triangular UFO/UAP Hovers Low Over Pennsylvania
Building – Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone</a><span style="text-align: start;">ular</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And Stan
Gordon has also provided a link to an article that he had written about other
low level UFO sightings, which you can read here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.stangordon.info/wp/2021/06/07/the-government-needs-to-be-more-forthcoming-about-the-ongoing-ufo-mystery-ufo-sightings-reported-yearly-in-pennsylvania/" target="_blank">The Government Needs To Be More Forthcoming About The Ongoing
UFO Mystery: UFO Sightings Reported Yearly in Pennsylvania – Stan Gordon's UFO
Anomalies Zone</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And for those of you
interested in a discussion of what was happening in 1973, which includes
information on many important cases, you can find in on Amazon. The link is
here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kevin+randle&crid=A4KWNLIXGRPM&sprefix=kevin+randle%2Caps%2C120&ref=nb_sb_noss_1">https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kevin+randle&crid=A4KWNLIXGRPM&sprefix=kevin+randle%2Caps%2C120&ref=nb_sb_noss_1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">As I say, 1973 was an
interesting year for UFO sightings. Many reports of the craft on the ground,
many reports of the creatures from inside, outside, and several abductions
(though most were terrestrial based experiences with no real alien component).
Had the research been conducted in a scientific fashion without the curtain of
ridicule coming down so rapidly, we might be having a different discussion.</span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-43459277552702254052023-10-09T04:27:00.002-07:002023-10-09T04:27:39.653-07:00Jacques Vallee, Trinity and New Information<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;">Jacques
Vallee has been heard from again defending the nonsensical story of a UFO crash
near San Antonio, New Mexico in 1945. According to Douglas Dean Johnson, that
defense was published briefly on Paola Harris’ website. You can learn more
about this here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/crash-story-file-my-dad-is-a-pathological-liar/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/trinity-ufo-crash-fictions-clash-with-real-atomic-history/"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/trinity-ufo-crash-fictions-clash-with-real-atomic-history/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I noted here a few
months ago, I had communicated with Dr. Vallee about an interview of Reme Baca conducted
and recorded by Tom Carey. In a cordial email, Vallee suggested that the fact
that Baca wanted to make some money off his experience was no different than
all of us who research, investigate and write about UFOs. You can read some of
that analysis here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/05/my-latest-communication-with-jacques.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/05/my-latest-communication-with-jacques.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And I would certainly
grant that point. There are many of us out there who have made money off our
research in magazine articles, books and even movies. I often joke about what I
call my <i>SAGA</i> scholarship. <i>SAGA</i> magazine published the <i>UFO
Report</i> in the 1970s and I was able to sell them enough articles that it
basically paid my college tuition. I will note that I had other income streams
as well but that’s a story for another time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I emailed Dr. Vallee
that I wasn’t all that interested in Baca’s financial motivation, but in the
major changes in the story related to Carey and the story as told to Harris and
Dr. Vallee. I asked specific questions about it. I suspect that there was no
good answer to any of those questions because I heard nothing more about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Ac0HXBn0nqrk9uas6YbiOBYqV_IOTw_7Jw3OwkvAQ_hizUNPavho7iOrdXlKxFSc9_au2DOzsbSwZLmgBxYvGNkUNguN6IggT7FWutEeV_gNRdEn5tU7zyV8Hdv4-b5Jk4gWVf0tIofMpPTDa0v4693sJdZcW0t25Ag2e8JEHOj-Gqw/s268/Tom%20Carey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="211" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Ac0HXBn0nqrk9uas6YbiOBYqV_IOTw_7Jw3OwkvAQ_hizUNPavho7iOrdXlKxFSc9_au2DOzsbSwZLmgBxYvGNkUNguN6IggT7FWutEeV_gNRdEn5tU7zyV8Hdv4-b5Jk4gWVf0tIofMpPTDa0v4693sJdZcW0t25Ag2e8JEHOj-Gqw/w317-h403/Tom%20Carey.jpg" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Carey</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I did interview Dr.
Vallee and Paola Harris on my radio show/podcast when their book was first
published. You can listen to that interview here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/x-zone-broadcast-network-jacques-vallee.html"><span style="color: #336688; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/x-zone-broadcast-network-jacques-vallee.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv/adp20210602ep162emjacquesvalleeandpaoloh_1"><span style="color: #336688; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv/adp20210602ep162emjacquesvalleeandpaoloh_1</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Douglas Johnson, at his
website, published a series of articles exposing the contradictions and
outright lies being told about this alleged event. I believe that anyone who
reads those articles dispassionately will realize that there had been no crash
near San Antonio, not in 1945 as now claimed or in 1947 as originally
suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The real fear here is
that those in the government who are suddenly interested in UFOs, I mean UAP,
will take this alleged event seriously because of Dr. Vallee’s reputation. They
will not bother to dig any deeper than the book and an interview with Dr.
Vallee. They won’t access Douglas Johnson’s website because they don’t know who
he is even if they know about the website. They won’t be aware of the major
contradictions and the outright lies told by the witnesses about this case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Instead, when they
finally learn the truth, they will then assume that all stories of UFOs and UAP
are some sort of terrestrial phenomena if not just lies. They will only
remember that this case, cited by a respected scientist has now been found to
be a hoax, and they will assume, by extension, other cases fall into the same
category.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If this case is one
endorsed by David Grusch and some of those other witnesses alleged to have
testified in front of Congressional committees or representatives of the
various intelligence organizations, it will suggest that much of the other
sightings cited will be similarly explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If I was a paranoid
person, and if I didn’t know the best way to seal an intelligence leak is to
pump bad information into that leak to discredit it, I would suggest we’re
seeing some of that here. Of course, the intelligence community didn’t have to
investigate the bad information. They had Reme Baca’s story as a starting
point. Shove in the discredited 1933 Italian UFO crash and many people will
just nod and say, “I knew it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now add the Aurora,
Texas crash of 1897, and a very strong case can be made that these sorts of
stories are the result of active imaginations and hoaxes told for personal
gain, and whole investigations collapse. I mention Aurora only because it
figures in the Vallee/Paola book, <i>Trinity</i>. I investigated the case
before it became famous back when I lived in Texas. You can read the results of
that investigation here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/aurora-texas-story-that-wont-die.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/aurora-texas-story-that-wont-die.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/04/aurora-texas-again.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/04/aurora-texas-again.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/09/ufo-crashes-fifty-years-before-roswell.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/09/ufo-crashes-fifty-years-before-roswell.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, I’m worried
that those conducting the government investigations will accept what Dr. Vallee
says without critical comment. When they learn the truth about the “Trinity”
UFO crash, they’ll begin to reject all other, similar data because of the poor
investigation of Trinity. They will assume that all research is equally flawed.
And they will use this when describing their work to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes, I have seen this
before. Nearly everyone scoffed at the Project Mogul explanation for the
Roswell debris when it was first pushed in the mid-1990s. Now, in our world, we
see that solution trotted out without any critical comment, even when the
documentation proves that Mogul wasn’t the answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am interested in what
others think about this analysis and what they believe about the Trinity UFO
crash, given the information available today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-82064581967797608752023-09-28T09:16:00.002-07:002023-09-28T09:16:52.166-07:00Jaime Maussan and the Latest Round of Alien Creatures<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Six or seven years ago,
Jaime Maussan was involved in the research of two photographic slides I thought
of as the Not Roswell Slides. The slides contained images that had been
presented to UFO researchers as evidence of the aliens recovered near Roswell in
1947. The slides generated a great deal of controversy because the images
released prior to a big event in Mexico City were badly blurred. The single available
image was the result of a photograph of one of the slides shot from a computer
monitor screen in a promotional video. Eventually, it was learned that the
image had been purposefully obscured to tease the importance of the slides
without destroying the value of them at the huge symposium held in Mexico City
in 2015. Jaime Maussan was one of those involved, arranging for the venue, for
some of the scientific investigations, and who proclaimed that the slides were
evidence of alien visitation. Within two days the truth was learned. I followed
the whole story on this blog and you can read many of those articles yourself just
by typing Jaime Maussan into the search engine provided on the blog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As so many know now,
Maussan is back, again with more alleged proof of alien visitation, or maybe of
some kind of other sentient lifeform that had evolved on Earth. Rather than
just photographic evidence he had in 2015, he now presented two small bodies as
proof of his claims. This time he was under oath and speaking to the Mexican
Congress. He said that the small bodies were not part of our terrestrial
evolution. He later said that they were not from a UFO crash. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Carbon dating by the
National Autonomous University indicated that the bodies were a thousand years
old. He said that he didn’t know if they were aliens or not but they were
creatures that lived among us. Either way this discovery would rewrite history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not long after that
presentation, journalists were invited to witness tests conducted by a forensic
scientist, Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez. Benitez, described as the Director of
the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Secretary of the Navy, said,
“Based on the DNA tests, which were compared with more than one million
species… they are not related to what is known or described up to this moment
by sciences or by human knowledge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That wasn’t all that
Benitez said about his examination of the small bodies. Based on the X-ray and
CT scans of the bodies, he said that there was no evidence of any assembly or
manipulation of the skulls. In one of the news stories, it was reported that
the “so-called bodies belonged to a single skeleton were not assembled.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to add to the mystery, Benitez said, that
one “was alive, was intact, was biological and was in gestation.” That
suggested it was female, and that large lumps found inside could be eggs. No, I
don’t know what he meant by one was alive but, quite obviously, both were dead,
and according to the carbon-14 testing were a thousand years old. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But there are some problems
here that seem to be missed by many of the commentators. Maussan when asked
where the bodies had been found said that he would reveal that at the
appropriate time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This hints at some of
the problems with the overall story that tends to confuse the issue. There has
been discussion that the bodies were found near Cusco, Peru, but there are
hints that they came from a location close to the Nazca Plain. In 2017, Maussan
apparently made similar claims about possible alien bodies in Peru but a
Peruvian prosecutor said the bodies were “recently manufactured dolls, which
have been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the
presence of skin.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those earlier bodies
were not shown to the public at the time so that it was unclear if the bodies
investigated in 2017 are the same as those displayed to the Mexican Congress
just days ago. Maussan refused to reveal the provenance of the two bodies which
does not bode well for authenticity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more problems
with the presentation. Gabriela Frias, described as a philosophy of science
researcher, challenged Maussan’s claims of the “carbon-14 analysis” that had
been conducted on the Nazca “mummies by scientists at UNAM.” Apparently, UNAM
has since clarified some of this saying that “any subsequent use,
interpretation, or misrepresentation of the results,” that is being used as
“proof” that the bodies were nonhuman beings is not endorsed by UNAM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All of this means is
that one of the pillars on which the foundation of alien beings was built has
collapsed. Without the provenance, without additional testing, the carbon-14
data is not quite as important as it seemed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And part of, if not a
large portion of the scientific argument and the suggestion that the testing
has confirmed the alien, or rather the unusual nature of the bodies, is not as
robust as it has been alleged. Much of that scientific research has been
conducted by Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez. His overwhelming excitement about the
find and the research has provided the sort of scientific support that
impresses much of the media who are unfamiliar with the history of UFO crashes
and recovered aliens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This isn’t the first
time that Benitez has been involved similar research on other alien, or alleged
alien beings. Part of the examination conducted in 2017 on either the creatures
presented this week, or others that have slipped from the discussion, was
attributed to research conducted by Benitez. I have only seen vague references
to this, but it is somewhat disturbing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Benitez’s name had also
surfaced in connection to other alien beings. In 2015, two slides of a strange
looking humanoid creature surfaced. Two men in the United States said they have
found the slides under somewhat mysterious circumstances and had released poor
copies of the slides to specific researchers. The being in those slides did
look mysterious and was unidentified for a long period. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For months, attempts to
identify the creature had failed. Jaime Maussan, (yes, the same guy) arranged
for some forensic analysis with scientists in various disciplines including
anthropologists. Richard Doble, a Canadian scientist was involved providing a
long list of features of the being that suggested its alien beginnings. The two
Mexican scientists were Luis Antonio de Alba Galindo and Jose de Jesus Zalce
Benitez.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Richard Dolan wrote on
May 6, 2015, the day after the presentation of the evidence in Mexico City,
“All of these gentlemen [Doble, Galindo and Benitez] spoke in detail and with
deep analysis as to why that body was not a human being.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Within 72 hours of that
presentation in Mexico City, the identity of the being was discovered when a
better-quality scan of one of the slides became available. The Roswell Slides
Research Group (and I must say in the interest of full disclosure most of whom
were skeptics) had discovered the slides had been taken in a museum setting and
they were able to “deblur” the placard that revealed the body was the mummified
remains of a two-year-old boy that had been discovered in the 1890s. There is
no doubt that the body on the slide was human, regardless of all the arguments
about why it simply could not be human.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And here is the point
of this rather long analysis. Maussan has been involved in the presentation of
alleged alien bodies several times, whether those bodies are from an
extraterrestrial source or developed here on Earth. In two of those, the
remains have been identified. In one case, it was an unfortunate child and in
the second, it was some sort of doll that was probably a modern creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To provide a scientific
framework for these claims, Maussan relied on the testimony and expertise of
several scientists. Again, in two of those cases, the scientists had been
wrong. We now learn that some of those same scientists have been trotted out
once again to attest to the authenticity of the examination of the remains. At
what point does the track record of those involved in this latest revelation
become something of an issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I suppose it is
necessary to point out that all this smacks of hoax. What are the odds that one
man would be involved in the recovery of alien creatures, whether from another
planet or found ours? Isn’t it important to understand that the scientists who
have made statements about the authenticity in the past have been wrong about
what they were seeing in those past cases? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At any rate, I have
held off on this for several days to check sources, to verify information and
to be sure of what is being said. Without independent examination by
disinterested third parties, there isn’t much left to discuss. Unless such
tests are conducted, there is but a single conclusion. This is another in a
long line of hoaxes involving alien beings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If there is other and
better information, from those disinterested parties I have mentioned, then
this is the end of the debate. As always, I await better data but without it,
this sorry tale has ended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-42470954120689442432023-09-22T13:42:00.002-07:002023-09-22T13:42:44.931-07:00Evidence of Aliens and the Latest on the New Investigations<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the last couple of
days, there have been two news stories that are of interest here. First, the
conventional wisdom is that liquid water is necessary for life to develop on
other worlds. The planet needs to orbit in what is called the “Goldilocks
Zone,” which means not too close or too far from the star. That zone is defined
as the region in which liquid water can exist on the planet. On a planet
circling a star designated as K2-18, is a planet designated as K2-18B, meaning
it is the second planet from the its star in the system. According to the
latest findings there is atmospheric water. This water vapor, which would
suggest surface water, was discovered as the planet passed in front of its
star. That was, of course, a significant discovery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, there is evidence
of methane in that same atmosphere. This is a second, important discovery,
because it suggests life, as we would define it, might be found on that planet.
Methane suggests the breakdown of organic material which, suggests some sort of
carbon-based life. This is an astonishing discovery, if verified. I mention
this because if the discovery was universally accepted, it would be major news.
Or, at least, I would think that it would be major news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">K2-18, is a red dwarf
star, which in the past, astronomers thought of as unimportant because there
are so many red dwarves in the galaxy. K2-18 is 124 light years away so it is,
more or less, in our galactic neighborhood. But since it is so far distant, we
do not have the technology to travel there. I do wonder, however, if the SETI
people have turned their attention to that star system. There are clues there
that might lead to additional discoveries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Second, in a somewhat related
story, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community said, in response in
a query about UAP from Congress:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a matter of discretion, IC IG
notes that it has not conducted any audit, inspection, evaluation or review of
alleged UAP programs within the responsibility and authority of the DNI
(Director of National Intelligence) that would enable this office to provide a
fulsome response to your questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Congressional
Representative Tim Burchett, had suggested in a response to the IG’s response that
this was a cover up. Burchett wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
IC IG office did nothing to look into the information they received from David
Grusch on UAP crash retrieval programs? They have no information they can give
to Congress???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNaFY3jBfxP85kTKJIGKLQTWFQiLsidhWSL1SX4F68FQCyPtAyFVB1XNf2opA8pb1RUAApGFJj_8IpopVqwANAP_P7Tc_-8qJhi8kdc9ihVEcc6WZi3aDthfYOrgaz5CI2WrwAhHlrflSCyLRxKXyo9DRaww6NQsHHc8d_89aPnBPIYAI/s978/Grusch.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="650" height="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNaFY3jBfxP85kTKJIGKLQTWFQiLsidhWSL1SX4F68FQCyPtAyFVB1XNf2opA8pb1RUAApGFJj_8IpopVqwANAP_P7Tc_-8qJhi8kdc9ihVEcc6WZi3aDthfYOrgaz5CI2WrwAhHlrflSCyLRxKXyo9DRaww6NQsHHc8d_89aPnBPIYAI/w365-h549/Grusch.jpeg" width="365" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Grusch who is partially responsible for<br />the latest round of reports.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or, in other, more
precise words, nothing has been done, no closed hearings have been conducted,
and none of the responsible agencies have bothered to begin their real work. As
I noted last week, the NASA report was more of “This Is How We’ll Conduct the
Investigation” rhetoric but gave no real indication of what is being done,
which suggests that regardless of the Congressional interest, nothing is being
done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And while NASA and the
government worry about how to conduct their investigations, interesting
sightings are still being reported. On September 8 of this year, near Morse,
Louisiana, three witnesses noticed a stationary light that was flashing. As
they approached the light, they spotted another one and then a third. They
reported that after they started to video the lights, the lights began to move
faster. They said that the lights emitted beams and changed color. They watched
for fifteen minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A witness in Marlton,
New Jersey, reported a bright, circular light that hovered overhead on
September 9 of this year. It then began to move quickly, stopped again and then
flew off to the right and there is video of the light as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a sighting that I
would normally ignore because of the short duration of less than two seconds,
the witness was watching a dog walk down the street when a large,
diamond-shaped UFO appeared about ten feet above the road in Houston, Texas on
September 9 of this year. It had circles that gave it a mottled gray appearance
and was about sixteen feet in length. It had no lights and made no sound but
what caught my attention, was the reported reaction of the dog. According to
the witness, the dog was startled by the appearance of the UFO. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You can find the videos
mentioned by searching the National UFO Reporting Center website and scrolling
down to the date and location mentioned. You can find that site here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://nuforc.org/">https://nuforc.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Animal reactions to
UFOs have been reported over the years. In some cases, it is the animal
reactions that led to a sighting. One of the best cases came from the European wave
in 1954, which was ignored in the United States for a long time. Maruis
Dewilde, who, on September 10, was awakened by his dog barking and howling,
attempting to get inside the house near Valenciennes, France. He grabbed his
flashlight and went outside to see what the trouble was. He saw a dark object
sitting on the railroad bed and not far away were two small creatures. He
described them as “…very short, probably less than three and a half feet tall,
but very wide in the shoulders, and the helmets protecting their heads looked
enormous. I could see their legs, small in proportion to their height… I
couldn’t see any arms.” They appeared to be wearing one piece diving suits. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dewilde wanted to walk
closer and tried to grab one of them. When he was about six feet away, he was
blinded by a bright orange light from the craft that stopped him. He later
said, “I closed my eyes and tried to yell, but I couldn’t. It was just as if I
had been paralyzed. I tried to move, but my legs wouldn’t obey me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The light went out and
Dewilde was again able to move. The creatures then scampered back into the
craft which lifted off, climbing vertically into the night sky with a low
whistling sound. Later examination of the railroad ties revealed deep
depressions that suggested a craft weighing about 30 tons had been standing
there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although Dewilde
reported the sighting to the local police, his state of agitation caused the
police to believe he was crazy. He then he told the police commissioner who
took the case serious. There was an investigation that involved several
official agencies. A measurement of the indentations left by the craft
suggested it must have weight about 35 tons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For more information on
the electromagnetic effects emitted by UFOs, search my blog by typing in
Levelland in the search engine. You can find that here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com/">www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Such cases, of animal
reaction to the appearance of a UFO, provides just another chain of evidence in
the search for the truth. Even if the presence of the UFO is eliminated, the
animal reacted to something in the environment. The identification of that phenomenon
would certainly add to our understanding of our world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But as we can see, that
search, though being announced by various government agencies is not a priority
with them. They are busy designing their investigative priorities and ignoring
the reports of UAP around them. They seem uninterested in past cases that might
provide clues about where to look in the world today. None of this bodes well
for any sort of progress in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-86996926992885637132023-09-17T12:05:00.000-07:002023-09-17T12:05:27.263-07:00The NASA Report: A Personal Commentary<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NASA released its report
on UFOs, I mean UAP, on Thursday, September 14, 2023, and to my way of thinking
it was just more of the same. Ever since Congress demanded some sort of
response after NAVY cockpit videos were leaked, there have been hearings,
mandates, investigations and reports, and basically, nothing new has come out
of any of it. It is almost like we’re still living in the twentieth century. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8IJ6h9mCSkQy-wOnjtZbg-qhIpAOV62571pmlTXghNF664r4tmH7PDH6dLF_fP3G4296-AQBlyPA7NYT9VgwRTqGziTHw90Pu3WrfhlY7cGsryLQ5a-8wEFOyePiHEnyWEWXN_xqqLv2Z6fe5UVmugfFFVK6T-wAX2gQL38jZtTlF2A/s1285/NASA%20Panel%202%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="1285" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8IJ6h9mCSkQy-wOnjtZbg-qhIpAOV62571pmlTXghNF664r4tmH7PDH6dLF_fP3G4296-AQBlyPA7NYT9VgwRTqGziTHw90Pu3WrfhlY7cGsryLQ5a-8wEFOyePiHEnyWEWXN_xqqLv2Z6fe5UVmugfFFVK6T-wAX2gQL38jZtTlF2A/w548-h287/NASA%20Panel%202%20(2).JPG" width="548" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The May 2023 NASA UAP Panel press conference.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You can read the whole NASA report here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/uap_independent_study_team_-_final_report_0.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/uap_independent_study_team_-_final_report_0.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Peer Review and the
Scientific Method<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those of us on the
other side of the fence, meaning, simply, we had hoped that rather than a
report outlining, once again strategies for gathering data, we would have
something more concrete. Instead, on page 25, we are told:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To date, in the peer-reviewed
scientific literature, there is no conclusive evidence suggesting an
extraterrestrial origin for UAP. When it comes to UAP, the challenge we have is
that the data needed to explain these anomalous sightings often do not exist;
this includes eyewitness reports, which on their own can be interesting and
compelling, but aren’t reproducible and usually lack the information needed to
make any definitive conclusions about a phenomenon’s provenance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What I found
interesting was the reference to “peer-reviewed scientific literature.” That
limits their search parameters to a specific source overlooking the body of
information that was collected for decades by military personnel who provided
some very compelling evidence in the form of eyewitness testimony, electronic
gathered data and some interesting gun camera films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For a moment, let me
digress. Throughout the report, they referred to metadata, as opposed, I guess
to other types of data. What that meant was that with most UFO sightings, there
were incomplete times, or locations, directions, weather, or other sorts of
information that would be valuable in identifying the UFO. Without these sorts
of data, then a solution, though mundane, might be impossible to achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is, however, a
long-term investigation in which these sorts of metadata had been collected and
I’m thinking of the Project Blue Book files. True, many cases contained gaps in
the metadata but that was more the result of poor investigative techniques by
those involved than anything nefarious. The data were there had they bothered
to gather them at the time of their investigation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In other cases, there
was an abundance of all sorts of data. As but a single example, I’m thinking of
the Washington National sightings of July 1952. There was eyewitness testimony
from military and commercial airline pilots. There were observers on the ground
both military and civilian, and many of them independent of one another. There
were radar sightings on multiple radars on various airfields, and there were
eyewitness observations of the objects painted by radar by both pilots and
observers on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I believe that all the
data needed for a comprehensive study of those sightings is still available in
the Project Blue Book files, though the opinions of those who investigated the
case in 1952 are certainly biased toward finding terrestrial solutions. There
are statements from the eyewitnesses collected in the hours after the events,
there are newspaper reports (and yes, I get that the press can be somewhat
credulous in their reporting), weather data available, locations are well
known, and there are star charts that provide data about the bright stars,
planets and other astronomical phenomena. This would, I suspect, provide some
very compelling evidence, if it was examined in a dispassionate fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had hoped when we
finally saw the NASA report, there would be a section that dealt with the
historical perspective. I know they couldn’t possibly look at all twelve
thousand sightings data the Air Force had gathered, but I had hoped that they
would look at some of the more interesting sightings where there is an
abundance of data gathered at the time of the sighting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Instead, we were
treated to a lecture on the scientific method and how science is supposed to
work. They tell us:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The scientific method challenges us
to solve problems by stringently evaluating our own ideas, by being willing to
be wrong, and by following the data into unknown territory – wherever it may
lead us. As Carl Sagan wrote in <i>The Demon-Haunted World</i>, “science
carries us toward an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we
would wish it to be.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which is a great
philosophy, but in my experience in the world of UFOs, the attitude was often is
it cannot be therefore it is not. Later in the report, they wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In science, data need to be
reproducible, and hypotheses falsifiable – the scientific method works by
systematically analyzing data with the intent to falsify the hypothesis. As a
general principal, the data should support measurement that can rule out specific
explanations or interpretations, leaving us with no choice but to embrace its
opposite. In the case of the UAP, the hypothesis we seek to reject (or “null
hypothesis”) is that the UAP have phenomenology consistent with known or
technological causes. Eyewitness reports should be considered along with
corroborating sensor data in the study of UAP as reports may reveal patterns
(for example, clusters in time or location). Yet, without calibrated sensor
data to accompany it, no report can provide conclusive evidence of UAP or
enable a study into the details of what was witnessed. While witnesses may be
inherently credible, reports are not repeatable by others, and they do not
allow a complete investigation into the possible cognitive biases and errors (such
as accuracy in perception, or misperception caused by environmental factors the
recording device, judgment or misjudgment of distance and speed, for example).
Therefore, reports do not alone constitute data that can support a repeatable,
reproducible analysis, and the hypothesis that what was witnessed was a
manifestation of known natural or technological phenomena cannot be falsified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which seems to be a way
to reject testimony that is not accompanied by something more tangible than
just the tale told by the witnesses. Sensor data and radar tracks would add some
of that additional data, though this too is subject to bias and interpretation
by the investigators. I suppose I should point out that we have examples of the
bias based on the past investigations including Project Blue Book and the
University of Colorado study, known as the Condon Committee. The Hippler letter
is an example of this bias and you can learn more about it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-latest-on-government-uap-report.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-latest-on-government-uap-report.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They are using the
scientific method to reject the witness testimony because the observations are
not repeatable. This too, might be inaccurate. The first thing would be a UFO
flap, which is concentrated area of UFO sightings. There might be dozens of
sightings over a short period of hours or days in a limited area. It could be
possible to send in a team while the flap is ongoing. They could gather
additional testimony, but they could also bring in the instruments to gather
the sensor data, and cameras to underscore the value of all that testimony. Not
exactly repeatability, but then meteor falls and lightning, as but two
examples, are fleeting phenomena and are unpredictable. Given the proper
circumstances and a “go team” might provide the opportunity for proper scientific
observation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This, of course,
doesn’t consider landing trace cases or events in which the UFO interacts with
the environment. The Levelland sightings of November 2, 1957, had they been
investigated properly at the time, might have provided the information that could
have falsified the null hypothesis. There would have been material to take into
a lab for analysis and effects that might have been detectable. If a car was
stalled by a strong electromagnetic field, then that field might have changed
the magnetic signature of the car. Scientists with the Condon Committee
actually proposed a way detect those changes, but did not bother to follow up
on the theory. They thought it would be difficult if not impossible to find the
cars that had been involved after more than a decade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is one more
aspect to this that should be mentioned. Fran Ridge and his team has created a
network of sites that have equipment designed to pick up anomalies in the area.
There is a spectrum of anomalies that these node centers collect that would provide
the metadata that NASA requires. The important point here is that often the UAP
sighting is independent of the detection at the node center. Once there is an
alert in one of the centers, they then search various databases looking for a
matching UAP sighting. This does bring an element of instrumentality into the
investigations and provides multiple chains of evidence that can be accessed.
Ridge has said they are attempting to add a photographic component to these
centers. A sighting that triggers the sensors and in which photographs or
videos were captured would provide some very persuasive evidence, especially if
there were photos taken by multiple, independent sources and coupled to the
MADAR data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">AARO AND THE
INVESTIGATION OF REPORTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s another aspect
of the report that I found a bit disturbing. According to the NASA report:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Recently, the DoD began encouraging
military aviators to disclose anomalies they encountered which resulted in a
significant increase in UAP reports: Between March 5, 2021, and August 30,
2022, DoD received a total of 247 new UAP reports, according to an analysis
published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in
2022. In contrast, 263 reports had been filed in the 17 years prior to March
2021. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick reported at this panel’s public meeting that AARO
has now collected more than 800 reported events. This includes the addition of
data from the FAA. ARRO and ODNI assess that the observed increase in the
reporting rate due to a better understanding of the possible threats that UAP
may represent – either as flight safety hazard or as potential adversity
collection platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is somewhat
interesting for two reasons. First, they provide a new number for reports
received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have moved beyond the early
number of 144 that the initial report provided and learn they have more than
800.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But second, and more
importantly, they are accepting that UAP sightings pose a potential threat to
flight safety. This seems to imply a real phenomenon that is more than just weather-related
problems or misidentification. It also seems to suggest that there are data to
validate the reality of the objects, though that certainly does not take us
directly to the extraterrestrial. There are theories about drones and
surveillance by foreign nations using craft that might seem to be
unconventional given some of the new designs that have been suggested. In other
words, these would be real craft that have a terrestrial origin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In one of the few UAP
reports they did examine; they provided an explanation for the “Go Fast” Navy
cockpit video. In a one-page analysis of the sighting, they wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We can use other information from
the display to place some limits on the true velocity of the object. This
analysis is summarized… which depicts an overhead view of the encounter during
a 22-second interval. The jet was banking left at about 15 [degrees] during
this time, which corresponds to the approximate turning radius of 16
kilometers. We know the range and bearing of the object at the start (t=0s) and
the end (t=22s) times Using the calculated true air speed (TAS) and a bit more
trigonometry, we find the object moved about 390 meters during this 22-second
interval, which corresponds to an average speed of 40 mph. This is typical of
wind speed at 13,000 feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the CIA
sponsored Robertson Panel suggestion. Use a mysterious sighting, provide
information about it and then provide a plausible explanation for it. If, of
course, national security rears its ugly head, well, nothing is said. I doubt
that anyone on the NASA panel is aware of the history or what recommendations
the Robertson Panel made in 1953. Additional information about the Robertson
Panel can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-uap-report-and-historical.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-uap-report-and-historical.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/07/coast-to-coast-operation-mockingbird.html">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/07/coast-to-coast-operation-mockingbird.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There were only three
sighting reports and two of them were listed as solved. The other, a silver
sphere speeding across the landscape is too small to have carried any sort of
flight crew and is probably some sort of terrestrial object. They have been
unable to identify it, but again, that doesn’t move us directly to the
extraterrestrial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE FINAL ANALYSIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is nothing new in
this report. It is just more of the same. A discussion on how to investigate
the UAP sightings, how NASA will be working with other government agencies to
gather data, and even some commentary on the mean Tweets that have been sent to
some of the panel members. They have been advised that their careers are in
jeopardy because of their association with this phenomenon. There seems to be
pushback by some members of the scientific community which is, of course,
irrelevant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is something that
I have never understood. Take the alien component out of the investigation,
meaning simply that they are looking at the data provided, and there are things
that might be of scientific interest. Many of the advances in science have been
made by accident. To reject data because it might lead to an extraterrestrial
source has always seemed to be narrow minded to me. Of course, that might be
why there is an emphasis on aviation safety and the suggestion of a national
security component in this latest report. It masks the fact that they are
looking at sightings which, in another and earlier era would have been called
flying saucers. And that might explain why they insist on calling them UAP.
That hides some of the stigma of chasing flying saucers, though to be honest,
that’s one of the things they are doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But there is nothing
here that we haven’t heard before. After recent years of reports, hearings,
meetings and press conferences, there is a hint that some investigation has
been completed, but in many cases the various organizations are still
attempting to figure out how to go about the investigation and how to gather
the necessary data. They seem to be obvious to what has gone on in the past,
they are unaware of some of the great cases that have been overshadowed by government
agencies that are simply denying what they don’t wish to acknowledge and
haven’t looked at any of the MADAR data that has been collected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or, I suppose, we could
suggest that we have created another massive, governmental entity that will
solved nothing, do nothing and eventually be seen as another colossal waste of
taxpayer money. As the interest wanes, the importance of this latest investigation
will change from a scientific enquiry to a public relations campaign to
convince us all that there is nothing to see here. That is what has happened
before, several times. They seem to believe that the interest will fade but
forget that it always returns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-38197896987844082572023-09-14T21:42:00.000-07:002023-09-14T21:42:04.246-07:00Jaime Maussan and those Small Creatures<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There has been news
from Mexico about the recovery of small, intelligent creatures that might not be
of human origin. The news was announced by Jaime Maussan, who has been involved
in UFO research for decades, and who has presented what appeared to be non-human
beings in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to the
testimony, given under oath to the Mexican Congress on September 12, the beings
were recovered from Cusco, Peru, and that thirty percent of their genetic
composition is unknown. Carbon dating by the Autonomous University of Mexico (a
reputable organization with three alumni having earned Nobel Prizes), suggest
the corpses were more than a thousand years old. They appeared to have
stereoscopic vision, three-fingered hands and no teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maussan said that the
specimens are not part of our terrestrial evolution. He also noted that they
had not been associated with any UFO wreckage. He said, “Whether they are
aliens or not, we don’t know, but they were intelligent and the lived with us.
They should rewrite history.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is not the first
time that it was announced that evidence of alien visitation or strange humanoid
creatures captured media attention. In the mid-1990s, it was announced that several
small, 16 mm film canisters had been found containing what appeared to be an
autopsy of an alien being recovered from the Roswell crash. In the end, the
film was an admitted hoax. Those who created the film provided photographs
showing the creation of the aliens. I have covered all this on this blog and
you can read it here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/05/alien-autopsy-is-hoax.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/05/alien-autopsy-is-hoax.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-end-of-alien-autopsy.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-end-of-alien-autopsy.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2006/04/end-of-alien-autopsy.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2006/04/end-of-alien-autopsy.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/05/alien-autopsy-and-h-beam.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/05/alien-autopsy-and-h-beam.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-im-beginning-to-dislike-ufology.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-im-beginning-to-dislike-ufology.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 2013, Dr. Steven
Greer announced a documentary about a tiny creature that had been found in the
Atacama Desert in Chile. The humanoid being was only about six inches tall.
Genetic research identified nearly all the DNA as human but suggested that some
of the DNA could not be identified. The argument was that the unidentified DNA
suggested an other worldly connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The ultimate conclusion
was that there was nothing alien found. You can read a scientific analysis
here: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://genome.cshlp.org/content/28/5/607"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://genome.cshlp.org/content/28/5/607</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The paper is from the
National Library of Medicine and if you don’t wish to read the whole paper,
which is short, I note they concluded:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
was a girl with many DNA mutations, not anything more exotic. Further
functional studies of these alterations may lead to a clearer understanding of
the genes that regulate bone development and might help the world diagnose and
treat other children with genetic diseases driving bone growth abnormalities.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This probably is the
reason why there is nothing much heard about this discovery after the paper was
published. I did wonder, and I don’t believe anyone has ever addressed this.
Would an alien species, evolved on a planet outside the Solar System reproduce
using DNA?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Just a few years ago,
Jaime Maussan was heavily involved in what I call the Not Roswell Slides
fiasco. Just like with the Alien Autopsy, this received worldwide interest that
culminated in a spectacular presentation in Mexico City. Within seventy-two hours,
it was learned that the alleged alien body was that of an unfortunate child
whose mummified remains had been discovered in the late nineteenth century. The
photographs of the body were taken in a museum in 1947. You can find many
postings about that on this blog and a few of the more relevant ones are here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/08/x-zone-broadcast-network-tom-carey.html"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/08/x-zone-broadcast-network-tom-carey.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is an interview
with Tom Carey and in the article are the links to more of the postings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point is that we
have gone through this sort of thing for the last thirty years or so. Each of
these presentations and announcements have ended the same way. The evidence,
when examined dispassionately and by disinterested third parties, has failed to
withstand the scrutiny. One was an admitted hoax, one was exposed as a hoax by
the available evidence and one was, to be kind, a misinterpretation of the
anthropological and archaeological evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will note that in
each of the cases, there were various experts consulted who suggested that hoax
was impossible, that the evidence suggested an alien visitation, and many times
when confronted with new data, refused to reverse course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I also noted that the
wording by the experts in this case was very careful. They were not claiming
these were aliens but the tests suggested the bodies were a thousand years old.
Even Jaime Maussan was careful, saying that they did not know if the bodies
were alien or some sort of alternative sentient life that evolved on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If these bodies
represented another sentient race from Earth, I must wonder why there isn’t
some sort of record of them somewhere. If the bodies are only about a thousand
years old, then I would expect that we would have found other evidence of them.
It is not as if they were a million years old or ten million years old. These
are relatively recent in the history of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Like many others, I’m
skeptical. Some of the reasons are laid out here, but another is that we have
yet to see a wide range of scientific investigation. There is so much more that
must be collected before we conclude hoax, misidentification or alien visitation.
I will be interested in that scientific investigation when conducted and what
conclusions are reached then. Until then, well, I’m skeptical but I don’t
reject any of the hypotheses at the moment. We need more evidence.</span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-78217046752680125772023-09-08T09:48:00.000-07:002023-09-08T09:48:15.241-07:00Roswell's International UFO Museum and Research Center<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was recently in
Roswell for an update on some of the investigations from a few years ago. It
was an opportunity to gather additional information, check out some sites, and
verify or answer a couple of questions. I hadn’t been to Roswell in several
years, so, of course, I made a trip to the International UFO Museum and Research
Center. The changes there have been extraordinary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ59HBthoRdj1Tmidz-Hlq08UalsLCNy2E8AhDjNi4jW5DOKNMKZaQIc_yOL1PHujeFZ-RW4omWWGEqP_e6d0MtqUfgZDFHJU9jVkaD4GCaglHYj_wtevFJ1i5c2O3TdPpfQzwVSBMc6P-D2UMYkmYm4-GHbuFbB1potmJk-dr1EgyK_c/s1241/Roswell%20Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1241" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ59HBthoRdj1Tmidz-Hlq08UalsLCNy2E8AhDjNi4jW5DOKNMKZaQIc_yOL1PHujeFZ-RW4omWWGEqP_e6d0MtqUfgZDFHJU9jVkaD4GCaglHYj_wtevFJ1i5c2O3TdPpfQzwVSBMc6P-D2UMYkmYm4-GHbuFbB1potmJk-dr1EgyK_c/w535-h346/Roswell%20Museum.jpg" width="535" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The International UFO Museum and Research Center.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The original concept
was a creation of several people including Walter Haut, Glenn Dennis and Max Littell,
with input from Don Schmitt and me. It began with few exhibits and gradually
grew into a somewhat impressive place, complete with some science fiction
aspects, a major library of UFO books and other materials. It has also become
something of a commercial enterprise, which, of course, it not necessarily a
bad thing. That aspect has brought in donations that have allowed for the
expansion and improvement of the Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRXYhf4rBUZR4ht_H5fsBpI83qPc3CV1lv3C6BzoQjKAp1pZGjxiIUjCJqElIRjYu62HA2EGiar23klsl17yGp3Ig1n5l68-4oz4pPLOoF6vl_n6HqdMmevfEWPpgiBb3aR_v8C9xmmKoQ5RM9xRGB549rBorda7Py6tnx8VSnSbthW-c/s464/Max%20Littell%20et%20all.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="464" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRXYhf4rBUZR4ht_H5fsBpI83qPc3CV1lv3C6BzoQjKAp1pZGjxiIUjCJqElIRjYu62HA2EGiar23klsl17yGp3Ig1n5l68-4oz4pPLOoF6vl_n6HqdMmevfEWPpgiBb3aR_v8C9xmmKoQ5RM9xRGB549rBorda7Py6tnx8VSnSbthW-c/w522-h363/Max%20Littell%20et%20all.jpg" width="522" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the left, Don Schmitt, Walter Haut and Max Littell.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The displays are of
professional, or maybe I should say, museum quality. A great deal of effort went
into the creation of those displays. Some of them are scientifically oriented
and others find their home in science fiction. There is a huge statue of Gort,
the robot from the original <i>The Day the Earth Stood Still</i>. In contrast,
there is a display of a dead alien in a hospital or morgue setting from the
ShowTime original movie <i>Roswell</i>. It could be argued that the display is
based on eyewitness testimony. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11rfAP9SE7VFWKVN49TDF0_WLI49QWfnDx7oN0873QvYwU9smwdrrT5FQNPqF64ghXjm0N5DHS1aUomgu1DgXiDMt5okIE4H0qg-7ZvdziILXRqYgT5HW8wL_7Ny_UVckDZZrtz9-ZpQe0LRhUSHehP5z-RCge7oH7ngbGiOVLxFaJb0/s1019/Gort%20and%20Klaatu.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1019" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11rfAP9SE7VFWKVN49TDF0_WLI49QWfnDx7oN0873QvYwU9smwdrrT5FQNPqF64ghXjm0N5DHS1aUomgu1DgXiDMt5okIE4H0qg-7ZvdziILXRqYgT5HW8wL_7Ny_UVckDZZrtz9-ZpQe0LRhUSHehP5z-RCge7oH7ngbGiOVLxFaJb0/w523-h361/Gort%20and%20Klaatu.JPG" width="523" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gort from <i>The Day the Earth Stood Still</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzoek2EdxP7xk4AOtb7I4ch6L2-Pjobn5zGa_dq5q_HtOW8aAXJN_1RZHIKSrNQ4T6nUT8i6sJ4J9cn_FIW9qfEkYIHxryjACOO0z-0bIYEdAoqzy_H8UXj4ln0Mn6l1TYnszA74tCyO1kHTwR08wPIvP_NQY4AFYzONIHpQfoGr6xTM/s1333/Alien%20on%20Gurney.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1333" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzoek2EdxP7xk4AOtb7I4ch6L2-Pjobn5zGa_dq5q_HtOW8aAXJN_1RZHIKSrNQ4T6nUT8i6sJ4J9cn_FIW9qfEkYIHxryjACOO0z-0bIYEdAoqzy_H8UXj4ln0Mn6l1TYnszA74tCyO1kHTwR08wPIvP_NQY4AFYzONIHpQfoGr6xTM/w521-h431/Alien%20on%20Gurney.JPG" width="521" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The alien from the movie <i>Roswell</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />There is an enclosed
“spaceship bridge” that is very impressive that takes you on a visit to the
cosmos but there is also a UFO landing scene that isn’t quite as impressive. It
has been there for years and it does, periodically, emit smoke and loud noise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One section covers some
of the more notable UFO cases including abductions. I wish they had done more
with the Hickson-Parker abduction. As I noted in an earlier post, Calvin Parker
had died recently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If I have one
complaint, it is simply a small display about MJ-12. Most of the UFO community
accepts the theory that the MJ-12 documents are a hoax. One of the first
recipients of those documents, including the Eisenhower Briefing Document and
the Truman Memo, had said that he had been thinking about creating some
documents to further his research. That comment, among other evidence, suggests
that MJ-12 is a hoax. I hope the Museum puts up a qualification about the
documents suggesting their dubious nature. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0pKpgqAhBGXm-BIPUmjxpXLrEDwE33AYlApNkNtsRoL2v_0ML3P_MGr9g1piufZ6Xhwp7R-z0EqVNVNjI6aHlY3CK9ZuhdEiVileRqhyhhZpD7IM_G6DX5e2xteyzvAiM8CIw9mbX6ixva8HS6yX5e4QCQjnUZzGTr1XAsTDStLqPj4/s1311/July%2010%20display.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1311" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0pKpgqAhBGXm-BIPUmjxpXLrEDwE33AYlApNkNtsRoL2v_0ML3P_MGr9g1piufZ6Xhwp7R-z0EqVNVNjI6aHlY3CK9ZuhdEiVileRqhyhhZpD7IM_G6DX5e2xteyzvAiM8CIw9mbX6ixva8HS6yX5e4QCQjnUZzGTr1XAsTDStLqPj4/w547-h403/July%2010%20display.JPG" width="547" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just one of the many new displays in the Museum.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And, of course, there
is a gift shop filled with almost everything Roswell you can think of. And
again, when was the last time you went to a museum that didn’t have some sort
of gift shop. This is not a bad thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All in all, the Museum
is now quite impressive. While it is not as large as the Smithsonian or some of
the Museums of Natural History around the country, it is as professional done
as those. I don’t suppose I have to say this, but if you find yourself in
Roswell, a trip the museum is worth your time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-61258747984531130432023-09-03T11:45:00.000-07:002023-09-03T11:45:09.995-07:00Why Aren't There High Quality UFO Pictures Today?<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A complaint that is
often made is that nearly everyone is carrying a high-quality camera in their
pockets, but we have no good pictures of UFOs. Ignoring the fact that there
have been many high-quality photographs and even some perplexing film, there might
be another answer for this criticism. It might be that there is a mechanism
that blocks the digital cameras from taking those high-quality photographs of the UFO, while the rest of the photo is high quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYZzkwAx3lwotulsQ-AoT7D80Y4U5YJbBFHRa4kx3DxV13YAeQbZef1SBlrZhmc2e8-LvZGV4_cWxQmred3gAG9BnHZYwnwXmb9b9jdEy_RNS8wxLXERvL1FLuVHC3Qo1-06JHp1qHuJnMyzy_OdDvJOwjri30Cs0p2VtiWs5OT017qA/s4032/EM%20Photo%20Colorado.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYZzkwAx3lwotulsQ-AoT7D80Y4U5YJbBFHRa4kx3DxV13YAeQbZef1SBlrZhmc2e8-LvZGV4_cWxQmred3gAG9BnHZYwnwXmb9b9jdEy_RNS8wxLXERvL1FLuVHC3Qo1-06JHp1qHuJnMyzy_OdDvJOwjri30Cs0p2VtiWs5OT017qA/w417-h556/EM%20Photo%20Colorado.jpg" width="417" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UFOs over Colorado.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The first point is that
we have evidence that some UFOs emit some sort of electromagnetic field that
does interfere with the operation of systems that rely on electricity. We all
know about the electromagnet pulse (EMP) that is the result of an atomic explosion
and that can destroy electronic devices. In Levelland, Texas, on November 2,
1957, dozens of people reported to Sheriff Weir Clem that their cars were
stalled by the close approach of a UFO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s take a look at
the Condon Committee’s “scientific” search for evidence. The Levelland case was
virtually ignored by them because they could think of no way in which an engine
that had been stalled by an electromagnetic field could spontaneously restart
when that field was removed. I made an analysis of more than five hundred
vehicle interference cases that revealed that in the majority of them, the
driver took some action to restart their cars. Very few suggested the car
restarted on its own which negates the Condon Committee criticism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Levelland, one
driver insisted that his car did spontaneously restart, but the other witnesses
who were interviewed suggested that the car could be started normally when the
UFO was gone. They started the car, but the Condon scientists just ignored that
evidence by making a claim that was simply not true. Levelland was a case in
which the UFO interacted with the environment, there are reports of landing
traces, and there were, according to the sheriff, “hundreds of telephone calls”
about the UFO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The point here is that
we have evidence that some UFOs generate a field that can alter the proper performance
of a vehicle’s engine. The EM field also interferes the operation of the radio
and there are many reports of a close approach of a UFO can dim street lights,
knock radio and TV stations off the air, and cause other, reported effects,
including responses from animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In just a single
example of animal response, on April 5, 2018, the witness, in Deridder,
Louisiana, reported, “My dogs began growling in the living room… and the cows
in the pasture across the street were mooing loudly. I went to the large
picture window in the living room facing west… I observed a huge round white
light traveling slowly in my direction… For fifteen minutes, the light grew in
intensity and pulsated.” When the light disappeared, both the dogs and the cows
stopped reacting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a weird variation of
some of the EM Effects, there are reports of car paint changing color after the
close approach of a UFO. Otto Binder was one of the first to report that, after
an approach by a UFO, the car’s paint changed from gray to purple with a
strange patchwork of lines. There is no information about the date or location
of the sighting and no witness is named. It could be overlooked as just a strange
anomaly, but, over the years, there have been other such reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Robert Spearing, a
dedicated UFO investigator with MUFON, who has been looking into cases of car
paint changing color after being exposed to a high intensity magnetic field,
has also noticed this. He asked the question: “Car paint has a number of
possible oxides that theoretically can be victims of induced magnetic fields.
But why are there not hundreds of cases of car paint changing color?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to his
research, he found only two such cases. In November, 1953, while driving near
Gjersjoen Bridge, Norway, three witnesses, identified as Trygve Jansen, Mrs.
Buflot and a neighbor, watched an object as it rose from behind a hill. It
oscillated over the lake for more than one minute, moved rapidly toward the
witnesses and followed their car. The object passed over the vehicle and
hovered ahead of them very low to the ground. Trygve stopped the automobile,
and they watched the stationary object. During the sighting all three
experienced mild electrical shocks until the object rose vertically. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When Jansen returned
home, his wife ran from the house and asked if he had bought a new car. When he
asked why she had thought so, she pointed that the car, that had been a dull
beige was now a bright shiny green. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spearing also
reported that in 1978 there was a UFO sighting with EM Effects in Massachusetts.
According to the witness, the Ford Mustang he was driving had the engine, water
pump and the battery fried by the close approach of the UFO. The paint changed
from white to grey and the car had to be junked rather than repaired. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Condon Committee
investigated a case that involved both the car’s paint and problems with the
clock. This was Case No. 39 (page 380) in the Condon Committee final report. There
is also a discussion of problems with the car’s clock as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given that there is
evidence that these EM Effects, there are some interesting sightings reported
recently. On August 3, 2023, a witness in downtown section of Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, spotted a series of lights that he first thought was an aircraft.
As the light approached, he saw a solid dark triangular-shaped object. <br />
He said, at the bottom was one white, steady light on each corner of the
triangle, and in the center was a single steady red light. Along the sides were
more white, steady lights. He said that the craft was about one hundred to two
hundred feet long from point to point and was flying at about 1500 feet. The
UFO made no noise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those who ask why
we don’t have any good UFO footage because nearly everyone is carrying a good
quality digital camera in a pocket, here’s part of the answer. The man took
video of the UFO and saw the image on the phone screen. When he got home and tried
to review the video, there was no image. He said that he didn’t know why it
didn’t record. He also said that he watched the object for about three minutes.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> On July 29, Stan Gordon got a phone call from
a witness who said that he had seen a massive, triangular-shaped object that
emitted a bright greenish-orange glow. The UFO was hovering when he first saw
it. The UFO then vanished only to reappear. There seemed to be an electric hum
coming from it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The witness took
pictures with his cell phone. He could see the UFO on the phone, but the
photographs showed a blurred image. He didn’t understand why that happened but
it does suggest there might be some sort of electronic emission, invisible to
the eye that affects the digital cameras.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From Boise, Idaho, comes
a report on June 4, 2023. The witness spotted a bright object. He said it was
tic-tac shaped, bright silver and made no noise. He tried to used his cell
phone to take a picture but the image was little more than a white blob.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZq8uvuekM1xFoFnfGgwaAk9z_7-dTmCMLTwWynAGNR0im3ncl2eT0ia-K-jwQqlOBlArZA8QVashbREVQsXmfrK9ildaecAGNVejlH5RJtijfGLwWWbA7wl4fIMl7y1BQ9sCMTwpfIUnsHwjxxXY4RDe1TWpYKT-ipt9pDJVksc8xAY/s4000/EM%20Photo%20Las%20Vegas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2252" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZq8uvuekM1xFoFnfGgwaAk9z_7-dTmCMLTwWynAGNR0im3ncl2eT0ia-K-jwQqlOBlArZA8QVashbREVQsXmfrK9ildaecAGNVejlH5RJtijfGLwWWbA7wl4fIMl7y1BQ9sCMTwpfIUnsHwjxxXY4RDe1TWpYKT-ipt9pDJVksc8xAY/w319-h568/EM%20Photo%20Las%20Vegas.jpg" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Las Vegas UFO.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The most exciting of
these sorts of cases took place in August, 2013, as several Americans were in
Canada hunting. It was about 9:40 p.m. when, as they were traveling back to the
main lodging, they spotted some unusual lights flying low and slow approaching
them. There was no sound and the lights were difficult to look at. The witness pulled out his camera, a Sony
Cybershot, but was unable to get it to stay on. He said that it would only stay
on for one or two seconds and then would turn off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The UFO approached to
within four hundred feet and flying about 250 to 300 feet. It was as big as a
house. There was what one witness called a plume of plasma and a cascade of
sparks from the rear. The craft was made of shiny metal with a luminous finish
and was in the shape of a dog bone or like a set of barbells.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Keeping with one of the
bad traditions, one of the hunters fired at the UFO. He thought that the
technology, whatever it was, would be impervious the lead slug from his rifle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, one of the other
witnesses picked up his Sony HD camera, and it stayed on. He hit record, but
the screen was black though the UFO was still visible to the unaided eye. He
picked up his cell phone but it was hot and the battery was dead. They all continued
to try to record the incident, but found batteries were dead or something else
was wrong. They video would not record, though they were able to record sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is much more to
the sighting. A full report was made in <i>The MUFON Journal</i> of March (No.
575) and concluded in April (No. 576) issue. The important point here is that
the witnesses attempted to use multiple cameras including those in cell phones
and failed to get a clear image.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In another example of
this, on August 3, 2023, a witness said that his car was stalled by the close
approach of a UFO. He picked up his cell phone but couldn’t get it to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, there are a
few other factors involved. In a sighting in Tremonton, California on July 16,
2023. The witness said that he saw a tic-tac shaped object. He watched it for
about seven minutes and he did take some pictures and did get some video of the
UFO. He did report, “Unfortunately, when it first descended, I forgot to push
the record button.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On July 24, 2023, the
witness in La Port, Texas, reported seeing a large, silver disk-shaped object.
The witness went to grab a cell phone, but the object was gone before a picture
could be taken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From Grand Junction,
Colorado, on May 1, 2023, a man in his garage when a bright flash caught his
attention. He saw what he called a classic flying saucer that had a slight dome
on top. He said that he didn’t think of his cell phone at first. He turned to
grab it and when he turned back the UFO was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here’s the real point.
Remember, that some 95 to 97 percent of all UFO sightings have a prosaic
explanation. They are strange clouds, sundogs, bizarre weather conditions,
balloons, high flying aircraft and a multitude of other mundane objects. Many
of the videos and photographs taken are of these things. Recently, dozens of
pictures have been taken of SpaceX rocket launches and Starlink Satellites.
They are clouding up the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In studying hundreds of
recent sightings, I see where the witnesses have attempted to photograph the
UFOs, but their cameras fail. When the UFO is gone, the cameras work properly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or we see that the
person has turned to find their camera, or they have gone to find their cell
phones. When they return, the UFO is gone. The sighting didn’t last long enough
for the camera to come into play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or, even stranger, the
witness, carrying a camera in his or her pocket or purse or briefcase, until
the UFO has disappeared has forgotten about the cell phone. The sighting was
fleeting and before the since of wonder had disappeared, the UFO is no longer
in sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or, the object, which
is well defined somehow produces an image that is little more than a blob of
light. It could be that the camera detects some sort of radiation that obscures
the object.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I say, and as I
noted here, we know that some UFOs create an electromagnetic field that
interrupts the flow of electricity. All of this, I believe, explains,
partially, the reason we don’t have more good pictures of UFOs. I would like to
say that if the image is clear and distinct, then the picture is faked, but
that is overstating the case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">I’ll leave it here. The
evidence suggests that some UFOs interfere with the operation of the recording
devices. This does not fully explain the problem but it does suggest a reason
why we don’t have many good UFO photographs given the nature of society today.
Maybe we just need to go back to good old fashion film and cameras that don’t
require electricity to work.</span> </p>KRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.com5