tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post3548399264933286040..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: Chasing Footnotes - Kelly Hopkinsville, Part TwoKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-20093760059842760322021-09-03T12:15:39.263-07:002021-09-03T12:15:39.263-07:00Well, this piece led to recall something. When I ...Well, this piece led to recall something. When I arrived at my first active duty USAF assignment in the middle of 1974 I was told that a previous young officers assigned to the same position - and engineer working on aircraft pneumatics - had as an extra duty the position of Tinker Air Force Base UFO Officer. I was not sure whether to be happy or disappointed that extra duty no longer existed; I assumed it went away when Blue Book did. The extra duties that I was assigned to perform proved to a lot dumber than chasing flying saucers. <br /><br />In any case, I can only assume that such an extra duty was common in the USAF when Blue Book was still operating. So investigations by "non-Blue Book personnel" must have been fairly numerous. I wonder if these cases are contained within Blue Book files or the documentation went somewhere else. RWEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060301488401028744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-64641402579057296072021-08-24T09:18:27.835-07:002021-08-24T09:18:27.835-07:00This is another one of those cases where the scept...This is another one of those cases where the sceptical explanation is more bizarre than an ETH. <br /> <i>"A visitor to the farm the next day did notice “a few beer cans in a rubbish basket (Davis and Bloecher, 1978, 35).”</i>....<br /><br /><br /> I don't know why a few beers would make two adult men become so intoxicated, to the point of neurotic, that they would shoot their own house up (with women and children inside).<br /> If they were charged up with home brew rum, maybe....but beer? Really!<br /> And after their dash into town, could these guys really have sobered up so quickly, to the point that the police didn't believe they had been drinking at all? <br /><br />As for country boys not recognising an owl at a few yards distance...especially after spotting these things on numerous occasions over a period of hours. On initially seeing an "owl" then, JUST MAYBE, the guys might have been startled...but they had literally hours to gather themselves and reassess if it were a bird, or not. <br /><br />As for the "owls" themselves, what was their major malfunction on that particular night? Where was their usual place of abode..their usual hangout?<br />Why did they become anti-social on that particular night...grabbing peoples hair and generally taking the piss.<br /> They hadn't seemed to have mithered anyone on any other night before or any night after!<br /> And what makes an owl become bullet proof?<br /> <br /> <br />These good ole boys were probably shooting things with pappy's shotgun as soon as they could walk...it's inconceivable that they couldn't take out a bird, at almost point blank range. (Incidently, what self respecting owl would stick around after being shot at half a dozen times?)<br /> In any case, didn't the men doing the shooting confirm they had definitely hit the target, that the "hit" sounded like they had shot into a metal pale but that the bullets/shot had little or no affect on the "owls".<br /><br />What were they shooting that was made of metal?<br />Why, in the cold light of day, did they not identify a pale , or tin bath, or anything that could make that metalic noise?<br /><br /> God only knows what they were shooting at that night, but it was no owl. And if they were that drunk they couldn't hit a target with a shotgun at point blank range, then they should still have been falling about when they got to the police station.Paul Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04267452625547760508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-66130611990951416462021-08-18T13:16:40.426-07:002021-08-18T13:16:40.426-07:00Now I know why my last blog entry in Part One didn...Now I know why my last blog entry in Part One didn't show up! Thank you.<br /><br />P.S. And keep "Chasing Footnotes" - it's interesting ...John Steigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10038697365721558826noreply@blogger.com