The UFO phenomenon is real, but no one can prove who or what is causing it. This blog explores the research done over many decades, showing that the UFO phenomenon is of profound existential and scientific significance.
"Richard Dolan with Truth Be Told at CITD 2018 - Is Disclosure coming?" Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel, 17 November 2018. Duration: 21:17 minutes.
This was an informative interview recorded May 31, 2018 while at Contact in the Desert. Richard discussed the latest and greatest in the UFO world. Talks about mainstream revelations, AATIP, To The Stars Academy and video releases.
Richard discusses researching claims, how "not to be a tool" and how "not to get hosed" by the most recent claims. It is important to do your own research. He mentions that the biggest problem in this field today are unverifiable claims by alleged whistleblowers about programs that sound like they have been stripped from Hollywood movies. People love to believe them, they want the stories to be true. The ideology is on board.
Truth Be Told with Captain Ron and Tony Sweet put together an incredible, well-edited video with relevant excerpts and video clips. They have a great channel right here on YouTube and you can see more of what they do: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNMX...
As you can read in the description above, the interview with Richard Dolan is from earlier this year. Around the 8 minute mark to the 12 minute mark, Dolan talks about how not to be a tool in the very noisy and murky field of UFO research. Around the 14:45 minute mark, Dolan is asked about the "Majestic 12 papers" that surfaced in the ufo-community in the 1980s and 1990s ("Special Operation 101 Manual"). During the remaining time of the interview, Dolan shares his view on disclosure.
In the video above, "UfoJesus", or Ryan, is summarising some of the latest and most important information about the battle inside the Pentagon and the Department of Defense (DoD) over UFO-research in general and the "Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" (AATIP) in particular.
Most of that information comes from investigative journalist George Knapp, who knows many of the key players involved in the ongoing careful and selective disclosure process (or "Psyop", according to some).
In fact, there are many, at least four, disclosure initiatives going on at the moment, but the best known is probably the one by "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science."
There are indeed at least two factions inside the Pentagon and DoD with different world views, beliefs and values, which has created tension and opposition over what the UFO phenomena represents and if it should be studied or not.
According to George Knapp, he has been told by Luis Elizondo and other key players that one faction inside the Pentagon and DoD does not want to study the UFO phenomena because the phenomena is demonic in its nature.
Live-streamed on cun network's YouTube channel, 27 October 2018.Luis Elizondo and Tom DeLonge's presentation starts at 1:08:30.Total duration: 3:56:04.
You can read the transcript of Elizondo and DeLonge's presentation on Joe Murgia's website: http://www.ufojoe.net/?p=371.
If you're as impatient as I am, then you perhaps prefer to read the transcript rather than watch and listen to the presentation since there is a translation going on for the people in the Italian audience not speaking English. Nothing wrong with that, at the same time it means that Elizondo and DeLonge have to speak slowly and take breaks for the translator, so if patience is not one of your virtues...
The presentation took place on the 27th of October 2018, at the Italian UFO Conference (Centro Ufologico Nazionale - CUN).Elizondo and DeLonge start at the 1:08:30 mark.
Some interesting statements in the presentation
At around 1:25:20, Elizondo starts his presentation with an overview of the U.S. military interest in the UFO phenomena through history. When he comes to the 1980s, he mentions one of the most famous UFO incidents in the history of UFOs; the Rendlesham, or Bentwaters, UFO incident. Elizondo says the following during his talk about the early 1980s and the Rendlesham UFO incident:
"Linda Moulton Howe - Guest George Knapp." Published on Earthfiles' YouTube channel 13th October, 2018. Duration: 1:59:37.
PHENOMENON Radio with co-hosts Linda Moulton Howe, Reporter and Editor of Earthfiles.com, and retired USAF Tech Sgt. John Burroughs.
Our guest is Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp, head of the I-Team at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the spring of 2018, George received documents from the Department of Defense through unidentified sources.
The interview with George Knapp starts at 7:00 minutes. Knapp is being asked by Linda and John about the history of AAWSAP and AATIP, the link between Senator Harry Reid and Robert "Bob" Bigelow, the DIA's role in the Skinwalker Ranch research, and other information.
Very informative to listen to George Knapp talk about how government works and the political battle inside the Pentagon about the study of the UFO phenomena and AAWSAP in particular. And his information, which many times comes from the horse's mouth, in part backs up some things I raise in this post.
Other interesting revelations in this interview are:
At least two foreign nations attempted to penetrate the AATIP.
How the visit from the DIA at the Skinwalker Ranch acted as the spark that ignited AAWSAP and AATIP.
The strange events at Skinwalker Ranch may have caused some government officials to dislike AAWSAP, leading to its end.
"UFO Invasion of 1952. Richard Dolan, UFOs the Big Picture." Streamed live on 29th of September, 2018, on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel. Duration: 29:30 minutes.
Richard Dolan on the 1952 UFO Invasion - This presentation involves one of the most forgotten but major years in the history of UFOs, at least as far as we've been keeping track of it, and that year is 1952. It is the great forgotten year in the United States. The number of good UFO sightings reached their highest total ever, at least in the pre-internet era.
Why so many UFO sightings in the USA in 1952? Was it just in the USA? What were the consequences in the form of U.S. Air Force and Navy policy regarding reporting UFO sightings and encounters? In other words, why is the year 1952 so significant in the history of UFOs and how does it help us understand the complex issue of disclosure of the UFO phenomena?
You may not get the answers to all the questions above in Richard Dolan's overview of the major year of 1952. So, I recommend the reader do some inquiries on their own. Doing your own research into the year of 1952 is well worth your time and effort if you want - or need - some evidence of the military and intelligence agencies' serious interest in and concern over mysterious and advanced flying objects.
Your own research will also give you a deeper and broader understanding of the complex issue of disclosure and that the national "security apparatus" never has been a monolithic entity.
The complexity of disclosure is perhaps not so much about the UFO phenomena itself, but more about human vanity, ignorance, greed, pride, and power dynamics between individuals in different branches and factions in the military and intelligence agencies. There have always been individuals and groups of individuals within the national security apparatus that have been for or against a disclosure of the UFO issue.
As I have said before, I believe - I do not know it to be a fact - something in the dynamics in the power structure of the national security apparatus has changed, and this change has likely been going on for some time before the confirmation of the reality of the UFO phenomena by the Pentagon and the Department of Defence in December, 2017 (the New York Times AATIP-articles).
We've also learned about a different Pentagon program, AAWSAP, that has researched paranormal and UFO events at Skinwalker Ranch.
The study of UFO history - the human side of it - is crucial to understanding what is going on with the UFO issue today.
"Leonard Susskind on The World as A Hologram." Published on tvochannel on the 4th of November, 2011. Duration: 55:26 minutes.
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructibility of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.
In one of my previous posts, I wrote about why a faction of the national security state apparatus has lied about the UFO issue for seven decades. I also wrote about the complexity of the UFO issue, and that thecomplexity as such can be one reason we live in an era of a careful and selective disclosure-process, rather than in an era of full disclosure of the UFO phenomena.
Before I move on, I should point out that Professor Leonard Susskind is not in any way associated with the UFO phenomena or subject. Why a lecture by Prof. Susskind on a blog about the UFO phenomena?
Well, Susskind and others might explain some of the more bizarre aspects of UFOs and "high strangeness" with their work on the hypothesis of the universe as a hologram.
I will not pretend that I have a deep understanding of what Prof. Susskind is lecturing about, or what kind of general inferences it is correct or not to make from the hologram-hypothesis. It is more on an intuitive-level that I sense that the hologram-hypothesis fits with some events, displays, and behaviours of UFOs, frequently reported in sightings, and especially among experiencers.
Maybe the holographic principle can offer a tentative explanation of how some of the UFOs travel to, or manifest in, what we perceive and call our reality.
Leonard Susskind's lecture centres on "information" and the ability to work with it, such as encoding and decoding. The holographic principle says, according to Susskind in the lecture: The maximum amount of information in a region of space is proportional to the area of the region.
According to Susskind in the lecture, we know that the part of the universe that is beyond our horizon to observe is at least 1000 times larger in volume than the observable horizon of the universe. We also know that the universe is expanding at an increased rate of acceleration.
Is our cosmic horizon (the visible universe) a two-dimensional hologram of all that lies beyond it? That is, what we think of as reality, life on Earth and the entire universe may be a two-dimensional mathematical representation of a three-dimensional mathematical representation that is 1000 times larger in volume and which we cannot directly observe. Our reality and universe may be a holographic representation of... something else, for lack of a better word.
Is this some kind of likeness of the ideas of Pythagoras and Socrates (or Plato, depending on how you look at it)?
Anyhow, what does the holographic universe got to do with the UFO phenomena? Perhaps everything?! Or nothing. Or perhaps to some extent?
I do not know; it is more of a hunch. I hope readers of this blog, more knowledgeable in science than I, can discern the relevance of Susskind's lecture to the UFO phenomena, if any.
In the lecture, Prof. Susskind begins by talking about the horizon of black holes acting as holographs. At the 48 minutes mark of the lecture, he then takes a cosmological perspective and generalises the concepts and laws from the black hole part of the lecture to being "true" for the entire universe.
I can't help but think we can study and investigate the stranger aspects of the Skinwalker Ranch phenomenon using the theoretical framework of the universe as a hologram. The phenomenon at Skinwalker Ranch obviously knows how to manipulate our three dimensions + time.
"Chaos is information that takes longer time to interpret than order."
"The age of impossible, anticipating discontinuous futures: Jacques Vallee at TEDxGeneva." Published on and by TEDx Talks YouTube channel, October 10, 2013. Duration: 15:14 minutes.
The acceleration of technology in an increasingly connected society producing "impossible futures" that range from rapid collapse of major banks to the emergence of complex new forms of political power. The Internet has become both a tool and a victim of this global mutation.
If you wait until the 8:29 minutes mark, then you will understand why this mainstream talk by Jacques Vallée is doing on a blog about the UFO phenomena.
However, the chief topic of Jacques Vallée's TEDxGeneva talk is not the UFO issue, but about the possible futures of the internet, both negative and positive futures.
As I have mentioned before, Dr Vallée is likely the most profound thinker in UFO-research, and has been since his collaboration and friendship with J. Allen Hynek.
UFO-aficionados are familiar with the fact that Steven Spielberg used Vallée and Hynek as consultants to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and that the character in the movie, Claude Lacombe, is loosely based on Jacques Vallée.
Anyone seriously interested in the UFO phenomena, and who particularly wants to learn about the complexity of the UFO issue, should read at least one or two books about the UFO phenomena by Vallée. I have read three of Vallée's books and therefore can recommend them:
The Invisible College. What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influence on the Human Race. Originally published by E.F. Dutton & Co. in 1975. 2014 edition published by Anomalist Books.
The Edge Of Reality. A progress report on Unidentified Flying Objects, J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee (1975).
Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, first edition 1991 and second edition 2008 published by Anomalist Books. "Revelations" is the third and last volume in Vallée's "Alien Contact" series.
"Why Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Are A National Security Risk And Also An Opportunity For Progress," says the headline of Luis Elizondo's article for Medium, published on the 4th of September, 2018.
Based on the title ("And Also") of Elizondo's article, it seems one keyword in the ongoing careful and selective disclosure process is balance. The challenge is to balance the public's right to know about UFOs with the government's need to protect sensitive information from other countries.
From a military and a national security perspective, I can buy that argument. But in my mind, there is a contradiction in Elizondo's reasoning in his article, because he is also saying that "the U.S. knows less than it should, and perhaps much less than our adversaries," referring to the factors that the U.S. Government (USG) looks at when determining whether an unknown entity is friend or foe: capabilities, intentions, vulnerabilities, and exploitability.
Is the USG concealing its lack of understanding of UFOs from other nations because they don't want to appear vulnerable and incompetent, rather than concealing advanced technology from the public?
The challenge for the USG - or the national security state apparatus - is finding the right balance between transparency and secrecy. What can the consequences be from a national security perspective of telling too much or too little to the public and media?
A while ago, I posted a text in Swedish where I share some thoughts on how my views on the UFO phenomena, in some instances, have changed during the work with this blog.
In the following text, I am going to summarise the main thoughts and reflections I bring up in the Swedish text posted on August 23, 2018.
I would like to begin by emphasising that because of the complexity of the UFO phenomena/subject, I'm in the following text simplifying the UFO phenomena/subject with its many aspects. Even if my work with this blog has expanded my knowledge about the UFO phenomena and, in some instances, changed my views on some aspects of the phenomena, I don't consider myself having a better understanding of the big questions like "What is the UFO phenomena?", "Who or what is behind it?", "Why?", "Cover-up or not?", "Disclosure?", and so on and so forth.
In fact, I am struggling with more questions about the UFO phenomena today, compared with when I started this blog in February this year (2018). At the same time, those questions have made me even more fascinated with the UFO phenomena than before.
I also want to underline that, at the moment, I don't have a favourite hypothesis about the UFO phenomena, or a favourite UFO researcher. Of course, I think the work of some researchers are more credible and relevant than others, but it does not mean that I agree with every word they say or write about the UFO phenomena and its related aspect.
What I can say with certainty and integrity is that no human being has a full understanding of what the UFO phenomenon is about. No group of people sits on the ultimate truth of the UFO phenomenon. Another thing I can say with the same certainty and integrity is that the UFO phenomenon has no black or white answers or explanations. That has become very clear to me during my work with this blog.
Remember, I am simplifying and speculating about the specific questions and aspects of the UFO phenomena I am covering in the text below. There are other relevant questions about the UFO phenomena to discuss, but a comprehensive discussion is impossible even in a 600-page book. Less so in a blog post by an armchair commentator on the UFO phenomena.
"Luis Elizondo Presents the History of AATIP." Published on To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science's YouTube channel on August 30, 2018. Duration: 31:08 minutes.
TTS Academy Special Programs Director, Luis Elizondo, gives an official presentation on the history of the Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that he ran up until 2017. You'll learn what AATIP is, what it isn't, as well as receive a status update on the current state of affairs for the future of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena research.
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science is a world leader in UAP intelligence and best-in-class laboratory for advanced physics research. Learn more at www.ToTheStarsAcademy.com.
You can also watch Elizondo's presentation on the history of AATIP with transcription on "To The Stars Academy's" website here.
Personally, I think some of the most interesting pieces of information come towards the end of Elizondo's presentation. For example, 27:30 minutes into the video, he says:
Time will be necessary to allow leadership proper awareness and assessment. You cannot digest a seven course meal in 10 minutes folks. It takes time. Some of you had decades involved in this. What you know to be a fact, people are just now hearing it for the very first time. As crazy as that may seem, it's true. For some folks the article that came out in The New York Times is the very first time they've ever actually even considered this topic. Let alone our leadership, let alone our lawmakers.
I think those sentences are key in understanding what the New York Times AATIP-article, published on December 16, 2017 + the associated UFO-videos, was all about. It started a selective disclosure of the truth about the UFO phenomena.
I write about this in my text in Swedish, posted August 23, 2018, "Tankar om bloggens innehåll såhär långt/Some thoughts on the blog's content so far."
As I write in the Swedish text, there are understandable - but not necessarily ethical - reasons for the secrecy surrounding the UFO phenomena. The secrecy, or "FOIA exempt" that Elizondo is mentioning in his presentation, is not only for protecting the information from foreign states. I believe two of the strongest reasons for driving and keeping the secrecy of the UFO phenomena are:
1) Governments and militaries around the world do not have a clue how to control or defend against UFOs.
2) The UFO phenomena is far more complex than anyone has grasped until, perhaps, fairly recently.
How do you tell the public about the phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch? How do you tell the public about people being abducted by someone or something against their will?
I am not saying that the UFO phenomenon poses a threat to humanity or the Earth. Neither am I saying that UFOs are our saviours nor that the UFO phenomena is all benevolent.
Very few things in this world are black or white. The UFO phenomena defies simple answers or explanations.
How do you prepare and educate the public about such a complex subject as the UFO phenomena? Where do you begin? What do you begin with?
You begin with stuff you know best and are the most familiar with. You begin with the stuff that is the easiest for most people to digest and handle. In our case, you start with the physical, nuts n´bolts, aspect of the UFO phenomena.
In today's world, at this point in history, the least traumatic information for the public to learn and accept is that "others" are here.
The preparation and education - careful and selective disclosure - of the public on the UFO phenomena started on December 16, 2017. But there is more to come. We wanted the truth. But how will we handle the truth of the UFO phenomena?
You can also read what I wrote about Hal Puthoff´s first public presentation on his thoughts about the NYT AATIP-articles and the associated UFO-videos, in a text posted on July 18, 2018, here, and compare my thoughts with what Elizondo is saying in the last third of his presentation on the history of AATIP.
Om du inte redan har det, så rekommenderar jag dig att läsa inlägget där jag presenterar syftet med min blogg innan du läser detta inlägg. Inlägget med syftet kan du läsa här. Detta för att arbetet med denna blogg inte endast har inneburit att jag har presenterat information och material om UFO-fenomenet som jag redan kände till, utan arbetet med denna blogg har även breddat och fördjupat mina egna kunskaper om UFO-fenomenet/ämnet (fortsättningsvis skriver jag ordet/termen "UFO-fenomenet" utan bindestreck; "UFO fenomenet"). (I texten som kommer längre ner har vissa partier ändrat textstorlek. Jag har inte kunnat rätta till felet, men jag hoppas att det inte stör läsningen allt för mycket. /Janne).
Och som med de flesta frågor, problem eller ämnen som man studerar mer på djupet och från olika perspektiv, så förändras ens syn på på ämnet. Man upptäcker att ämnet är mer komplext än vad man först trodde, och man inser att "sanningen" inte är så enkel att få syn på eller komma fram till som man först antog. Så jag vill i detta inlägg dela med mig till läsaren något om hur mitt synsätt på UFO fenomenet och dess olika aspekter har förändrats sedan jag startade bloggen.
Därför vill jag redan nu göra läsaren uppmärksam på att vad jag skriver i det som följer nedan är generaliseringar och förenklingar om UFO fenomenet och relaterade frågor till fenomenet. Som en följd av UFO fenomenets/ämnets bredd och komplexitet, så kommer jag i huvudtexten nedan endast att fokusera på ett mycket begränsat antal aspekter av UFO fenomenet, och på några enstaka av alla de otaliga frågor som fenomenet väcker hos de flesta av dem som börjar sätta sig in i den gåta, eller det mysterium, som UFO fenomenet fortfarande är.
Jag vill också understryka att jag inte har någon "favorit-hypotes" eller någon "favorit-ufolog" om någon av UFO fenomenets aspekter. Jag försöker att ha ett öppet sinne, lyssna på och överväga trovärdigheten och rimligheten i olika individers hypoteser, tolkningar och slutsatser angående UFO fenomenet. Vad jag kan ställa mig bakom med övertygelse och bibehållen integritet är att ingen människa, eller grupp av människor, sitter på den fullständiga sanningen om UFO fenomenet eller har den kompletta bilden av vad fenomenet handlar om.
Ok. Vad jag tänker skriva om i denna text är på vilka sätt min syn på och mina åsikter om UFO fenomenet har förändrats under det dryga halvår som jag har haft igång och arbetat med denna blogg. Vissa av dessa åsikter och tankar kring UFO fenomenet har alltså förändrats och skiljer sig idag från de åsikter jag uttrycker om UFO fenomenet i inlägget som presenterar syftet med bloggen. En annan tanke jag har med denna text är att problematisera vissa aspekter av UFO fenomenet, och en förhoppning jag har med de frågor jag ställer i texten - till framför allt mig själv - är att frågorna får även läsaren att reflektera kring sina egna och andras åsikter om UFO fenomenet och dess olika aspekter.
Published on Ozark Mountain Publishing's YouTube channel on 28th of June, 2018. "Flying Saucers and Science" by Stanton T. Friedman. Duration; 1:58:19.
The lecture "Flying Saucers and Science" by Stanton T. Friedman is from 2017. In the lecture, Friedman talks about and shows what he thinks is overwhelming evidence that some UFOs are physical objects with a highly advanced technology and propulsion systems.
And yes, Friedman is convinced that some of these UFOs - or "flying saucers" as he prefers to call them - are controlled by extraterrestrial beings and that this is covered up by governments and military (a "Cosmic Watergate" according to Friedman). Ergo, the subject of flying saucers and its cover-up is the biggest story of the past millennium, is Friedman's conclusion.
Stanton T. Friedman is also covering some of the most famous UFO cases he has been investigating, for example, the Barney and Betty Hill case and the Roswell incident. He talks about those cases in the second half of his lecture, and also in the second half, he talks about the controversial "Majestic 12" documents.
Around the 1 hour and 51 minutes mark, Friedman answers questions from the audience.
I highly respect Stanton T. Friedman for all the time and energy he has spent on researching the physical aspect (nuts n´bolts) of the UFO-phenomena. Earlier this year (or maybe it was last year) he announced that he will retire as an ufologist. As I understand it, 2018 is going to be Stanton T. Friedman's last year as an active lecturer in the UFO subject.
Even if I do not agree with Friedman's conclusions on, for example, the "Majestic 12" documents, I think that the field of UFO research needs more people of Friedmans´ calibre. Especially in the current state of the UFO community, where nonsense is more prevalent than critical thinking. I am sorry to say that, but it is true.
So, thank you, Stanton T. Friedman, for all the good work you have done! And may your life as a pensioner be enjoyable and fulfilling.
**Addendum 2025-02-01: The link above to Stardrive.org does not work. I encourage you to visit the following link to read a condensed transcript of Dr Hal Puthoff's address at the SSE/IRVA Conference:
The condensed transcript is made by Kaleen Howdy and published on Medium.com on October 6, 2019. My text below (from July 18, 2018) is still referring to the material on Stardrive.org.** / J. T.
Read carefully the text written and edited by Dr Jack Sarfatti with the title "Hal Puthoff interview on USS Nimitz UFO close encounter." Sarfatti writes in his introduction:
In his address to the SSE/IRVA conference Puthoff became the third member of the TTS/AAS team to publicly discuss the FLIR video released to and published by the New York Times on December 16, 2017. As with Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo, he made it quite clear the advanced aerospace object was not of human design without saying it was of extraterrestrial origin.
What Dr Sarfatti has done is to publish the presentation that Dr Harold "Hal" Puthoff held at the SSE/IRVA conference on the 8th of June, 2018, in Las Vegas. It is Dr Puthoff's presentation I encourage you to read with focus.
At the beginning of his talk, Dr Puthoff says,
The third area, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, I have not published anything in. Why? Because the program I was involved in, in the Pentagon and in the intelligence community has been Top Secret, behind-the-scenes and only recently has there been release of information about the program. So this is the first chance that I’ve had a chance to actually appear before the public and speak about details of the program and not go to jail. So I’m going to go along at a rapid clip; I’ve got a lot of information here. So here we go.
The following is my interpretation of the most important "message" in Dr Puthoff's presentation:
"George Knapp (06-17-08) Hunt for the Skinwalker." Published on the UPARS YouTube channel, 11th of February 2015. Duration: 2:01:27.
Are you ready to go further down the rabbit hole? If not, skip listening to George Knapp's presentation about the Skinwalker Ranch.
I believe George Knapp (together with Leslie Kean) is the top journalist reporting on UFOs, and has been since he began covering the topic in the late 1980s. He's genuinely interested in UFOs, doesn't know everything, and knows many important people studying them. For example, in this presentation he mentions people like Robert "Bob" Bigelow and Jacques Vallée.
So, George Knapp is not a "UFO nerd" with a tinfoil hat on his head. Neither are the people he is connected to and works with.
I'm telling you this right away because George Knapp's presentation is about the strangest and sometimes most disturbing things I've ever heard. In other words, it is hard to know what to think and believe or not about all the different abnormal activity going on in the Skinwalker area; everything from UFO sightings to poltergeist phenomena.
As George Knapp says at the start of his presentation, he usually focuses on telling the public the truth, but the Skinwalker Ranch events have made him wonder if the whole truth should always be shared.
What is also important to know is that the Skinwalker phenomena is not just stories and anecdotes from honest people. There have been several scientists trying to study, document, and evaluate the Skinwalker phenomena. At about 1 hour and 11 minutes, George Knapp explains what kind of science people have conducted on the Skinwalker Ranch and in the surrounding area.
It is almost impossible for me to give you particular highlights in Knapp's presentation, because the entire presentation is filled with examples of all the weird ways in which the Skinwalker phenomena is manifesting.
The weird, bizarre, and disturbing phenomena are not something new for the Skinwalker area. The whole Uintah Basin of Utah seems to have been a "hot spot" for UFO sightings and paranormal activity for hundreds of years. And the Skinwalker area seems to be the "epicentre" of all that "high strangeness." In Native American folklore, a "skin walker" is a shape shifting witch or sorcerer who can manipulate and control the human mind.
I do not believe all the weird and bizarre stuff that is being claimed happening on the Skinwalker Ranch. I do not think George Knapp's or other people's interpretations of the Skinwalker phenomena are correct. And Knapp is not claiming that he himself or any other person has the answers to what is happening on the Skinwalker Ranch, what is causing the phenomena or how.
But I think that some strange phenomena and activity are manifesting in the Skinwalker area. What and how is as far I can understand still a mystery.
For the last 30 or 40 minutes of the presentation, Knapp answers questions from the audience, and the questions are mostly about other topics than the Skinwalker phenomena, for example, about John Lear and Bob Lazar.
For updates on Skinwalker Ranch, check out the Open Minds UFO Radio podcast with Jeremy Corbell.
Alejandro Rojas posted the podcast on Open Minds UFO Radio, May 15, 2018. Duration: 75 minutes. The interview with Jeremy Corbell starts around 25:20 minutes into the podcast.
I can also recommend the interviewwith Jeremy Corbell done by Robbie Graham and published on the Mysterious Universe website, 29 June, 2018. The interview is mostly about the Skinwalker Ranch and Corbell's upcoming documentary about the phenomena at the Skinwalker area. Corbell also shares interesting details about the differences between AATIP and AAWSAP.
"Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden -Part One." Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel on July 1, 2018. Duration: 52:07 minutes.
This is part one of two. Below is part two of the interview with Marden ("Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden (Part 2)").
In this part one of the interview, Kathleen Marden is mostly describing and talking about her own and other researchers' studies on the experiencer phenomenon (what I call the "contact aspect" of the UFO-phenomena). Marden defines "experiencers" as "those people who had contact with nonhuman entities." Both positive and negative contacts and experiences. These nonhuman entities are not always necessarily what we would think of as extraterrestrial beings or "aliens", according to Marden's and other researchers' data.
An interesting result of Marden's research is that 88 % of experiencers say that after an UFO-encounter/experience and/or abduction they also start to experience paranormal activity in their homes and lives.
In the first 25 minutes of part one, Marden talks about her recent commonality study were most of the experiencers in the study say that they have become more intuitive and empathic (not the same as "empathetic"), and they ascribe these heighten abilities with their experiences with the nonhuman entities.
Marden also asked the experiencers in her study if they would like their extraordinary experiences to stop. 71 % answered that they did not want their experiences to stop, while a significant minority, 29 %, answered that they wanted their experiences to stop.
Dolan and Marden explore possible answers and interpretations of the statistical data I have mentioned above.
As always; listen with both an open and a skeptical mind. Form your own opinions.
"Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden (Part 2)." Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel on July 7, 2018. Duration; 1:01:53.
Richard Dolan speaks with Kathleen Marden Leading UFO researcher, author and lecturer, and expert on the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.
This is Part Two of a Two-Part video.
You can skip ahead in the show to 6:30 minutes to avoid the annoying commercial break. In this part two of the interview, Kathleen Marden starts by describing an abduction case with multiple and credible witnesses. This case also shows how paranormal activity can follow - or somehow seems to be triggered by - UFO encounters and/or abduction experiences.
22:30 minutes into the show, Marden shares her own extraordinary experiences that occurred in her childhood and included other members of her family. In relation to her personal story, Marden also talks about the modus operandi of the debunkers of the UFO-phenomenon.
In the second half of this part two, Dolan asks Marden where she thinks the abduction research is today, what the current hypotheses are, and so on. That conversation starts around the 34 minutes mark, but I am not sure if Dolan and Marden really discusses Dolan's above questions. Instead, they go on a tangent - a fascinating tangent - about a woman named Francess Swann (I am unsure of my spelling) who in the 1950´s was in contact with some high-level individuals in the government and the military about the abduction/experiencer phenomena.
Published on the YouTube channel, John E. Mack, on March 24, 2014: "1995.04.28 John E. Mack, M.D. presentation at IONS on alien encounters." Duration: 1:10:23.
A presentation by Dr. John Mack on the subject of alien encounters, held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Sausalito CA, April 28, 1995. Includes discussion of the Ariel School sighting (though the clips of the student interviews have been omitted at the request of Dr. Mack). He also briefly discusses a private group meeting with the Dalai Lama that occurred in 1992.
John E. Mack, M.D. (1929-2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
This video is no longer for sale at store.noetic.org and appears by kind permission of IONS. Edited by Adrian Amsems, IONS. Transferred from VHS by Maria Talcott.
This post is a continuation of the exploration of what I call the contact aspect of the UFO phenomena. We have left the physical aspect - or the nuts n`bolts - of the UFO phenomena, which has been the theme since the start of this blog and that ended with this first post on the contact aspect.
The video above shows more of a conversation than a presentation between Dr John E. Mack and the group of scientists and laypeople he is talking with. Jacques Vallée and Peter A. Sturrock are among the group of scientists. Both are taking part in the conversation about the contact/abduction phenomenon that starts around 25 minutes into the video.
The conversation was held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California, 1995. IONS was co-founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell. "Noetic" comes from the Greek word "noetikos", meaning "direct knowing", "inner wisdom" or "subjective understanding."
In short, the conversation between Dr Mack and his audience is of an ontological and epistemological character. Dr Mack has written five questions, and he goes through them beginning at the 4:40 minutes mark. Those questions then serve as a platform for the conversation about the nature of the contact/abduction phenomenon, its meaning, effects, and so on.
At about 19:25, Dr Mack discusses the Ariel School incident from 1994 in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, which I consider the most important modern contact case. You can listen to one witness from the Ariel School contact case in my directly previous post to this one.
In the segment starting around 56 minutes into the video and ending at 57:10 minutes, Dr Mack talks about why he finds the contact/abduction phenomenon so fascinating and important.
Finally, let us always remember that behind all the fascination for the contact/abduction phenomenon and all the interesting intellectual, abstract discussions, there are human beings who sometimes have experienced something very disturbing and traumatic.
That is why it is crucial to have people like Dr John E. Mack getting involved with doing research on the phenomena itself, but more importantly to help people to deal with, understand, and sometimes, heal from their extraordinary experiences.
The human side, the psychological effects of the abduction phenomenon, was always the primary concern for Dr Mack. It's crucial to always remember the people involved in these strange abduction experiences.
Published by UFOTV The Disclosure Network on October 11, 2011: "The Alien Abduction Experience - Budd Hopkins and Dr. John E. Mack". Duration: 1:03:20.
From UFOTV®, accept no imitations. EBE Award Winner! Feature Length - In loving memory of Budd Hopkins 1931 - 2011, and John E. Mack, M.D. 1929 - 2004, and their contribution to Alien Abduction and Extreme Experience Research.
Legendary Alien Abduction Researchers - Budd Hopkins - Author, Researcher and John Mack, M.D. - Harvard Professor of Psychiatry, come together to discuss what they believe is happening to people who report experiences of being abducted by Aliens and taken aboard their craft. Get the facts in this rare and heart felt presentation. Originally taped in 1997.
The discussion between Budd Hopkins and Dr John E. Mack about the "alien abduction experience" provides a helpful overview of different perspectives on , what I call, the "contact aspect" of the UFO-phenomena.
When I watched the dialogue from 1997 with Hopkins and Mack, I thought: Why isn't this kind of honest UFO discussion on TV today? Or even in the so-called alternative media?
Around the 38 minutes mark, the audience gets to ask questions to Hopkins and Mack. Most of them very good questions that triggers interesting and respectful debate between Hopkins and Mack.
I respect both of the gentlemen, Hopkins and Mack, for their work and contribution to the study of the contact aspect of the UFO-phenomena. In particular, I respect Dr John E. Mack's courage to risk his reputation as a clinician and his academic standing when he listened to people's stories about their extraordinary experiences.
In this debate, I mostly agree with Dr John E. Mack's perspective on the "alien abduction experience." But I can also see and understand where Budd Hopkins is coming from.
My interpretation of Mack's perspective is that he does not want to make the contact aspect a question of "good" or "bad" "aliens". He suspects we will never get the full answers to the contact/abduction phenomenon.
Instead, Mack urges us to go from a literal interpretation of the phenomenon to a more ontological one. What does the phenomenon say about our perception of reality, ourselves and the planet we are living on?
The contact aspect of the UFO-phenomenon is complex, to say the least. It is up to each individual to make up their own mind about the contact/abduction aspect. But in order to do so, we at least have to give the research and material a fair chance.
We cannot dismiss the contact aspect of the UFO-phenomena without first looking at the material with both an open and a skeptical mind. If we have given the research a fair chance, then it is ok to disagree with parts of it or dismiss it as a whole.
"Curiosity didn't kill the cat. Ignorance did." - Unknown
What happens when you see something so extraordinary that no one believes you? Filmmaker Randall Nickerson is exploring this question through his upcoming feature-length documentary, Ariel Phenomenon. The film explores an event in 1994 when sixty school children claim to have seen an unusual space craft land near their primary school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe and witnessed an incredible event that, to this day, they can hardly comprehend themselves.
This is a continuation of my last post about the "Ariel Phenomenon", which you can find here.
As you can read in the quotes above, host Martin Willis interviewed one of the over 60 school children, Salma Siddick, who had an extraordinary experience in Zimbabwe, 1994.
Another guest on the show is Randall Nickerson, the director and producer of the documentary "Ariel Phenomenon", portraying the extraordinary event that Salma and the other children shared in Zimbabwe in 1994.
The live broadcast had some technical issues throughout the broadcast, especially in the beginning. However, the interview with both Salma Siddick and Randall Nickerson is still worth watching and listening to. The interview with Salma starts around the 4:30 minutes mark.
I leave it up to the curious reader to form their own opinions about the Ariel School UFO encounter in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 1994.
I find it hard to believe that the Ariel School UFO event from 1994 was fabricated by Salma Siddick, the other kids, and witnesses.
Ariel Phenomenon 2017 Promo. Published on Ariel Phenomenon YouTube channel, 16th of August 2017. Duration: 8:20 minutes.
We are now leaving the physical aspect - the "nuts n`bolts" aspect - of the UFO phenomenon(-na), and entering a much more bizarre and puzzling aspect.
This blog post marks the start of a series exploring the stories of people who claim to have interacted with extraterrestrials, specifically focusing on those who say they were contacted or abducted by them.
I will refer to this aspect of the UFO phenomena as the "contact aspect" even if the contactee and abductee cases can be seen as different categories or experiences.
I will not go through the history of the contact aspect or present material on all the most well-documented cases. I am not trying to convince anyone that there is solid evidence supporting the contact aspect to be real. Well, who decides what is "real" and how?
Because I have found no kind of evidence to support people's claims of having had communication or encounters with non-human intelligence. But again, there are questions about what we count as "evidence", in which context, and by whom?
With that said, I believe some of those claims and stories are worth listening to and taking seriously. And my main purpose with this and coming posts on the contact aspect of the UFO phenomena is to present some of the credible cases so that the reader can evaluate the material and make up their own mind.
One of those credible stories - or contact cases - worth taking seriously is the one about the experience that over 60 school children and other witnesses shared in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994.
The YouTube clip above is a promotion trailer for the full-length documentary "Ariel Phenomenon" that is trying to raise public awareness of the event in Ruwa, -94.
You can read more about what the 60 school children experienced in -94 and about the documentary "Ariel Phenomenon" here.
Whether or not we believe that some of the more credible contact cases actually happened - like the one in Ruwa 1994 - there is no doubt in my mind that in some of the contact cases the individuals are sincere and truly believe in their experiences. In most contact cases, the individuals seem to be affected profoundly by their experiences. Sometimes positively, sometimes in a negative way, and perhaps most often, affected by their experience in a complex way of both "good and bad."
If anything, the contact cases show that the UFO-phenomena do not fit neatly into a category or box. Yes, the physical aspect of UFOs is validated, but even the nuts n´bolts aspect has far more questions than answers.
The contact aspect of the UFO-phenomena is truly and highly strange. Even weird sometimes. But I cannot help thinking that the contact aspect has something essential to tell us about the UFO-phenomena and the nature of consciousness and its interaction with matter, space, and time. The answer(s) may have something to do with non-human intelligence. Whatever "they" are, and where ever "they" may come from.
The link above leads to an article by George Knapp and Matt Adams for the "I-Team." Knapp and Adams write about a document from 2009, "in which Reid made the case for protecting and expanding the project."
The quote is about the Pentagon's UFO program, called AATIP, which is well-known among UFO enthusiasts. Paul Dean, who studies UFOs, has discovered a new name and acronym besides AATIP. The question is whether these different names represent separate UFO projects. "Reid" is Senator Harry Reid, who initiated the military study of UFO encounters in 2007.
According to Knapp and Adams' article from June 28, 2018, Senator Reid in a 2009 letter to the deputy secretary of defence said, "that the AATIP study was already a success, and that exotic technologies could be catastrophic if used by our adversaries."
Why is that statement interesting? First, Senator Reid is saying that the AATIP was a success almost immediately after its implementation. But perhaps most intriguing is that Senator Reid's statement goes against the spokesperson for the AATIP, who said something to the effect of: "We did not learn much and it was decided to spend the taxpayers' money on something else."
The Pentagon has said that the program ended in 2012. Luis Elizondo, the former director of AATIP and now at the "To the Stars Academy", has said that only the funding ended in 2012, but that the program was still running when he left his position as the director of AATIP.
The link above has also a 4 minutes short news clip with George Knapp interviewing Senator Harry Reid and Luis Elizondo about the 2009 document/letter. Very interesting in the clip is the segment with Dr Hal Puthoff talking to a science group in Las Vegas. Listen closely to what Dr Puthoff was telling the group of scientists.
The link to the New York Magazine leads to another interview - a more in-depth interview than the first link above - with Senator Harry Reid. In this article he goes into more detail about his involvement in the AATIP, why a scientific approach in the study of the UFO phenomenon is crucial, etc.
Below is a quote from Senator Harry Reid on the question of secrecy or not, or a cover-up or not, regarding information about the UFO-phenomenon.
Let me give you something that the press has totally failed and conjured. We have hundreds and hundreds of papers, pages of paper, that have been available since this was completed. Most all of it, 80 percent at least, is public. You know something? The press has never even looked at it. Not once. That’s where we are. I wanted it public, it was made public, and you guys have not even looked at it
Below you will find a two-part interview with Navy pilot and commander David Fravor made by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
It is an important interview in which Commander David Fravor clarifies some speculations and misconceptions, according to him, about the video and written report on the "Tic Tac" incident off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
People who read this blog probably saw the NYT article from December 16, 2017, about the Pentagon's UFO program, AATIP, which showed the Tic Tac UFO video. If not, you can read the NYT article and watch the Tic Tac video here.
To the Stars Academy (TTSA) published the report on the Tic Tac encounter on its website, and you can read the report here.
Anyone seriously interested in the UFO-phenomenon - skeptics and believers - should listen carefully to the whole interview (parts one and two).
Ask relevant and critical questions. Not just only on this one UFO encounter, but also how it fits - or does not fit - in the bigger picture of the UFO-phenomenon.
The key question is: How should the Tic Tac UFO incident affect the scientific study and public discussion of UFOs?
Published on June 23, 2018, on Jeremy Corbell's YouTube channel. Duration: 28:13 minutes. Part one.
Published on June 27, 2018, on Jeremy Corbell's YouTube channel. Duration: 26:07 minutes. Part two.
UFO Documentary - Secret Access - History Channel. Published on YouTube byBrigman, January 9, 2017. Duration: 1:27:50.
Back to the physical aspect of the UFO-phenomenon for a moment, and the amount of evidence that validates the physical aspect of UFOs. With that said, it is also important to remember that no one with certainty can prove what or who is causing the UFO-phenomenon. Neither can no one with certainty prove how or why.
I am aware that "History Channel" is not the most credible source, but the documentary "Secret Access" with mainstream journalist and one of the best UFO researchers, Leslie Kean, is an exception to the rule. Most of the content in the documentary "Secret Access" builds on Kean's book UFOs, Generals, Pilots and Government Officials.
Leslie Kean acts as a cicerone through some of the most famous and well documented UFO-cases in modern times that are presented in the documentary.
For people already read in on the UFO-subject, the documentary does not present any new UFO cases. But what makes "Secret Access" worth watching is that high level and credible individuals who were involved in the UFO-cases presented come forward and tell their experiences and perspectives on the UFO-phenomenon. Most of all, the documentary gives you a sense of how much evidence there is in all the UFO-cases presented in the documentary and the quality of the evidence (for example, actual radio transmission between pilots and tower/radar controllers). There is no doubt that something extraordinary happened in all the cases in question,but all the cases are still today considered as unexplained. One important, and very sad, aspect of the UFO phenomenon is the stigma surrounding reporting and talking about UFO-sightings in the aviation community. This stigma is highlighted and described in the documentary around the 43:30 minute mark and in relation to the "Anchorage, Alaska" case in 1986.
One of the most intriguing UFO-cases in modern times is the so called "Belgian Wave," which started around 1989, lasted for 18 months and then suddenly stopped. "The Belgian Wave" is presented 58:20 minutes into the documentary.
Personally, I believe that these triangular UFOs that were seen in the skies in 1989 are man made. If so, that is intriguing and troubling, and raises all kinds of questions about who, how and why. The propulsion system behind these triangular UFOs seems highly advanced, and one has to wonder in what other ways could that theoretical and practical knowledge benefit life on Earth and human society? Below are links to articles (one in Swedish, the other in English) that tell about the Swedish movie director Lasse Hallstrom's plans to make a movie based on Leslie Kean's book UFOs, Generals, Pilots and Goverment Officials. https://www.svt.se/kultur/film/lasse-hallstrom-ska-gora-film-av-ufo-bok
Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel, 17th of June 2018. Duration: 1 h 52 min.
Richard Dolan interviews researcher Peter Levenda, whose classic works on the Nazis and the Occult established a stellar reputation for him. More recently, he has become well-known for his collaborative authorship with Tom DeLonge, singer of Blink 182 and organizer of the To the Stars Academy (TTSA). Dolan's interview of Levenda is fascinating, and Levenda richly explains the goals and actions of TTSA in 2017 an 2018. He also discusses the earlier UFO Disclosure initiative of DeLonge and John Podesta (campaign manager of Hillary Clinton) during 2015 and 2016, giving an invaluable window into the events of that time. Throughout this interview, Levenda gives a clear and honest perspective on what is, without question, the most discussed subject in ufology today. A can't miss interview.
Around the 9:35 minute mark Richard Dolan starts introducing his guest, researcher Peter Levenda. And as the quote above from Dolan´s YouTube channel says, Peter Levenda is describing his connection and collaboration with Tom DeLong and "To the Stars Academy of Science and Arts (TTSA)." From the start TTSA has been controversial and questioned within the UFO-community. What is TTSA´s agenda? Who is really running TTSA? Can we trust TTSA, which members have worked for CIA, Pentagon, Lockheed "Skunk Works", etc.?
Very interesting to listen to Peter Levenda´s perspective on not just what is really going behind the scene with TTSA, but also his opinion about, for example, John Podesta´s genuine intention of a UFO disclosure, but in a different way than that of a big official Disclosure. Dolan and Levenda has an interesting discussing about this starting somewhere around the 40 minute mark and ending around the 49 minute mark.
Levenda also talks about the misconceptions about the Wikileaks dump of the email conversation between DeLonge and Podesta.
Personally, I find the second half of the radio show as the most interesting. The second half/hour starts 57:30 minutes into the show.
In the second hour Dolan and Levenda are discussing questions as "is there a cabal or not that is hiding information and proof of the UFO-phenomena?" and "what are the implications of the `Tic Tac`- video?" and rumours, questions about the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
An especially interesting discussion in the second hour starts at 1 hour and 6 minutes. Peter Levenda unpacks the story and implications of the "Tic Tac"-video and talks about an aspect of this video and UFO-case that I didn´t know about before listening to this radio show. The UFO, or the "Tic Tac", did something that violates every law of physics that we know of. You´ll not miss what the extraordinary action of the "Tic Tac" was when listening to Levenda describing it (it is not about incredible flight manoeuvres or velocity),
Finally, I think what Peter Levenda is saying 1 h 40:30 minutes into the show, and ending around 1 h and 44 minutes, is something important to reflect on for all of us who sometimes can be paranoid in mistrusting everything the governments, militaries, intelligence agencies and media says - or do not say - about the UFO-phenomena.
Reality is rarely black or white. It is not good for our mental health to think in categories of "always" or "never", "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong", and so on. We live in a complex world and the UFO-phenomenon is a complex subject. The human brain is in general not so good with complexity. This is one of the reasons why conspiracy theories are so appealing; they give the brain fast and easy answers to hard questions. We get a sense of seeing a pattern and understanding how the world works. That, in turn, gives us a sense of control over and meaning in our lives.
Published by SpaceTimeForum on YouTube on May 19, 2014. "James McDonald explains UFO debunking." Duration: 1 min, 11 sec.
In a brief video clip, Professor James E. McDonald shares his thoughts on why the US government dismisses the scientific importance of UFOs.
This post about James E. McDonald aims to add another piece to the puzzle regarding the strange discrepancy between the overwhelming evidence supporting the reality of UFOs (the physical aspect) and the official denial by the government, military, and intelligence agencies of the UFO phenomenon's significance for national security and science.
Professor McDonald is one giant in the history of UFO-research. Anyone interested in finding out if there is anything important with the UFO phenomenon or not, has to study at least some of the work about the phenomenon by Prof. McDonald.
Explore the links below to learn about James E. McDonald's significant work on UFOs and its relevance still today.
Check out the University of Arizona Libraries link, as it contains McDonald's data on various UFO cases, correspondence with military officials, etc.
By Arizona Archives Online under the heading "Scope and Content Note:"
Papers, 1904-1997 (bulk 1958-1971). Mostly correspondence, cases, reports, interviews, and printed materials relating to James E. McDonald's investigations, 1958 to 1971, into unidentified flying objects and similar sightings, and governmental investigations, responses and reports, including the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book, and Edward U. Condon's 1969 report, A Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, relating to these phenomenon. Correspondence, 1958-1971, is between McDonald and various government and military officials, other scientific and professional UFO researchers. Case files, 1945-1970, include investigations, mostly in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, on sightings by military pilots, tower control officers, law enforcement officers, scientists and citizens.
Contains photocopies of approximately 580 Project Blue Book sighting reports, mostly by pilots, and some with airborne and ground radar verification. Also includes four handwritten journals, 1958-1971, describing UFO investigative activity; papers and talks, 1966-1977, given before conferences, symposia, and groups; research materials, including his 1967 trip to Australia and New Zealand; a referenced outline of an unpublished book; over 80 audio-tapes of interviews, talks, and conversations on UFO topics; photographic materials on various subjects; and supplemental materials.
On the basis of my examination of the UFO problem during the past three years, I regard it as probably the outstanding scientific problem of the century. I believe the evidence clearly shows that Dr. Condon, like a number of other scientists who have previously had responsibilities in advising the Air Force on its task of sorting out the mysteries of the steady flow of UFO reports, really never opened his eyes to the significant evidence, never dug in and undertook the kind of extensive case-checking and witness-interviewing that leads one to see that in the UFO problem we are probably confronting a phenomenon of unprecedented scientific significance.
Published on YouTube by Paranormal Videos You may have Missed. June, 2017.
Ron Reagan Show: UFOs (September, 1991) Part 1.
Very rare two-part program from the short-lived TV talk show. Guests: Stanton Friedman, Philip Klass, Jacques Vallee, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Maxwell.
The YouTube video above represents a continuation of the theme about the strange discrepancy between the governments/militaries official standpoint that there is nothing to UFOs and their unofficial interest in and worry about the UFO issue.
Why cannot the government and military officially acknowledge the overwhelming amount of evidence for the reality of the UFO phenomenon (the physical aspect)?
Unfortunately, I am mainly referring to the government, military, and intelligence agencies in and of the United States of America. Of course, the USA is not the only nation suppressing information about the UFO phenomenon (henceforth "the phenomenon"). But there are nations more transparent with their interest in the phenomenon. For example, France; Spain; Chile; Brazil and others. Those nations even have state funded and public investigations of the UFO phenomenon.
Or perhaps we should reason as the living legend Jacques Vallée about the question "cover-up or not?" Vallée, at least as I understand his view on this question, seems to think that we should not focus on the question of a "cover-up or not." I think his reason for saying that is simply because he does not believe in a big cover-up or secrecy, or maybe because he thinks it is not productive in further our understanding of the phenomenon.
In the episode of the Ron Reagan Show above, Vallée enters the show around the 8:00 minutes mark. The people who are most active and dominate the discussion are another living legend, Stanton Friedman, and the late UFO skeptic, Philip J. Klass. The key question they are discussing and arguing about in the show is, "Are UFOs real or not (and what or where is the evidence)?" And the question of a cover-up or not.
By making a post about Jacques Vallée, I am going ahead of myself. For me, Vallée has made the biggest contribution to the field of ufology by looking at the UFO phenomenon from many perspectives and angels. Like his colleague and friend, Dr J. Allen Hynek, Vallée is a rare blend of a rigorous scientist and an open-minded seeker. A scientist and a seeker who is genuinely and intrinsically driven by a need to understand a phenomenon and come closer to the truth (whatever the truth may be).
Published by Think Anomalous on YouTube, November 1, 2017. Duration: 12:45 min.
When J. Allen Hynek was first hired by the US Air Force to consult on their UFO research, he was reluctantly complicit in their debunking agenda. But as he investigated more and more baffling cases, he eventually changed his mind on the UFO question, and led the world in the effort to create a true science of UFOs.
Published by FindingUFO on YouTube, March 22, 2017. Duration: 16:03 min.
Tom Snyder's interview from the early 1980s, with J. Allen Hynek and attorney Peter Gersten, covers government cover-up(s) and details of some intriguing UFO sightings. Dr. Hynek explains what UFO researchers needed to do to explain the UFO phenomenon.
J. Allen Hynek tells Snyder what researchers needed to do to ultimately explain the UFO phenomenon but all these years later his astute advice is still being ignored.
Dr J. Allen Hynek är inte endast intressant för att han under en lång tid var mitt i händelsernas centrum av UFO-fenomenet, utan även för att han var fascinerande som person. En blandning av en rigorös vetenskapsman och en sann mystiker. Han är av de flesta inom ufo-kulturen hyllad och beundrad för att vara den osunda skeptikern (debunker) till UFOs, som efter många års studier av UFO-fenomenet blev en "sann troende."
Men verkligheten är sällan så tillrättalagd, eller så svart eller vit.
Det översta videoklippet, som är ett slags porträtt av Dr J. Allen Hynek som person men framför allt av hans mångåriga inblandning i undersökandet av UFO-fenomenet, visar på ett ganska bra sätt att Dr Hynek varken var en hjälte eller en skurk i allt drama kring UFO-fenomenet som han i en officiell kapacitet var inblandad i från slutet på 1940-talet till slutet på 1970-talet.
Det andra videoklippet av FindingUFO, visar en intervju med Dr J. Allen Hynek efter att han hade sagt upp sig från sin tjänst som professor i astronomi och därmed kunde tala mer öppet och personligt om sina tankar och idéer om UFO-fenomenet.
Många år efter Dr Hyneks uppdrag som konsult till US Air Force-initiativet "Project Blue Book", så medgav han att militärens fokus gick från att försöka förklara UFO-fall till att bortförklara eller helt enkelt inte nämna de mest genuina och svårförklarliga UFO-fallen för allmänheten och media. Enligt Dr Hynek var skälet till militärens "inget säga"- taktik att de var oroliga för att en officiell bekräftelse av UFO-fenomenets existens från militärens och/eller regeringens sida, skulle orsaka oro, otrygghet och kanske till med panik bland allmänheten.
Besökaren som har tagit del av de senaste fyra inläggen är med på noterna varför jag lägger ut dessa videoklipp av och skriver om Dr J. Allen Hynek. Jag försöker lägga ett pussel. Jag försöker fylla i en mycket ofullständig och suddig bild.
Frågan, eller aspekten av UFO-fenomenet, vi utforskar för tillfället (och har gjort de sedan de senaste fyra inläggen) är den om den mycket konstiga skillnaden mellan i första hand amerikanska militärens officiella och inofficiella ståndpunkt till UFO-fenomenet. Det vill säga, att den amerikanska militären officiellt inte erkänner den överväldigande bevisningen för UFO-fenomenets existens (den fysiska aspekten av fenomenet), men inofficiellt har tagit, och tar fortfarande, den fysiska aspekten av UFO-fenomenet på allvar och ansett det vara ett hot mot den nationella säkerheten.
Dr J. Allen Hynek är en viktig pusselbit att känna till för att kunna lägga ett fullständigt och korrekt pussel.
Men jag tar även upp Dr Hynek av en annan orsak än frågan om en "mörkläggning" eller inte av den amerikanske militären. Längre fram i tid kommer att jag gå över till att fokusera på ytterligare en aspekt av UFO-fenomenet. Det är en central aspekt för att vi någonsin ska kunna förstå UFO-fenomenet helt och fullt. Samtidigt är det den mest bisarra och svårsmälta aspekten av UFO-fenomenet.
Jag talar om rapporterade fall av kontakt mellan människa och utomjording eller till och med av fall där människor har blivit bortförda av utomjordingar (eller "Non Human Intelligence" (NHI)). Med denna aspekt av UFO-fenomenet måste vi träda marken högst försiktigt och med en skarp urskiljningsförmåga på vad som är trovärdigt eller inte.
Denna aspekt av UFO-fenomenet är som sagt helt central för att förstå UFO-fenomenet, samtidigt är det den mest missförstådda, infekterade och mytologiserade aspekten.
Men självaste Dr J. Allen Hynek blev på äldre dagar övertygad om att utomjordingar eller utomjordisk aktivitet inte fullt ut eller på ett tillfredsställande sätt kan förklara UFO-fenomenet. Han var också övertygad om att vårt traditionella sätt att se på och bedriva forskning inte kommer att ta oss närmare sanningen om UFO-fenomenet.
Den bisarra men centrala aspekten av UFO-fenomenet handlar även i högsta grad om frågan "Vad är medvetandet?" Men mer om den aspekten i framtida inlägg.
Nedan finns en länk till den UFO-organisation som Dr Hynek bildande på 1970-talet, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), som än i dag är högst aktiv. Länken leder till en biografi av Dr J. Allen Hynek på CUFOS webbsida, och citatet är taget ur det nästa sista stycket av biografin.
"The UFO phenomenon may teach us more about ourselves than it does about the outside universe," he told OMNI. "We don't know the answer, but there are several intriguing possibilities." But, true to form, he insisted that "The E.T. hypothesis is untenable," frustrating UFO believers right to the end while continuing to draw closer to the boundaries of science.
Tales of the Hawk tells the story of a Retired Air Force Colonel who worked at the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base which has been confirmed as a depository for recovered crash debris of extraterrestrial origin. His story is about his own "cover up" experiences. Dr Macabbee is one of the original developers of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and was instrumental in establishing the Fund for UFO Research.
The X-Conference is pleased to welcome UFO Researcher and Physicist Bruce Maccabee, PhD.
The X-Conference is produced by X-PPAC (Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee) and The Paradigm Research Group, who's mission is to educate Congress, the Press and the Public about the Government imposed "Truth Embargo" and to bring about formal acknowledgment by the U. S. Government of an Extraterrestrial presence engaging the Human Race - Full Disclosure. UFOTV is pleased to present what will be all of the presentations that were given by all the invited speakers at each of the X-Conference events. Stay tuned as we continue to upload further video coverage.
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It is not confirmed that Wright Patterson Air Force Base is a "depository for recovered crash debris of extraterrestrial origin," as the first sentence in the quotation above says. And Bruce Maccabee, PhD, is not making such a claim in his presentation "Tales of the Hawk."
Maccabee's presentation is from 2008, and it starts at 2:40 minutes. I've previously mentioned to my Swedish readers that this blog has shifted its focus. It now explores government and military involvement, or lack thereof, in the UFO topic, instead of just the physical side of UFOs.The change in focus started with the first presentation by Bruce Maccabee, "SECURITY MATTER - X."
The physical aspect of the UFO phenomenon is validated. UFOs are real and therefore worth of rigorous and open scientific investigation, and serious coverage and discussion in the media. But no one knows or can prove that UFOs are extraterrestrial. At least no one from an official position and status has offered such evidence.
The aspect of government and military knowledge about and involvement in the UFO phenomenon is a much more complex issue to get to the truth of. There are a lot of myths, speculation, and conspiracy theories surrounding this aspect. Which the praised by critics and award-winning documentary Mirage Men portrays.
I believe a bizarre discrepancy exists between the robust evidence of the UFO phenomenon's physical nature and the US government and military's official denial. I strongly believe that the U.S. military and intelligence know about UFOs, see them as a security risk, and are probably secretly investigating them.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Kevin Randle is an author and UFO researcher. He has written many books on UFOs and his latest is titled The Government UFO Files: The Conspiracy of Cover-Up. We caught up with Kevin this week to talk about government disinformation, fascinating government UFO files, and cover-up.
Kevin is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and in Iraq as a battalion intelligence officer. He began writing for UFO magazines and eventually moved onto books. He has appeared on countless radio and television programs in the mid-1990s hosted his own show on KTSM Radio in El Paso, Texas. He has written books about UFOs, science fiction, action adventure and even a vampire novel called, cleverly, VAMPYR. His blog can be found at www.KevinRandle.blogspot.com.
The material in this post takes us from the question of whether UFOs are real to what the military and intelligence community knows or not about UFOs.
The interview with Kevin Randle starts around the 17:35 minutes mark. In the first part of the interview, Randle and Rojas discuss the controversial "Majestic-12 documents" (MJ12), which appeared in the UFO community in the 1980s. Randle explains why he believes the MJ12 documents are a hoax.
Randle and Rojas are mentioning the name Richard C. Doty during their conversation about the MJ12 documents. Below (under the Swedish text) you can watch a trailer for the 2014 documentary "Mirage Men." It discusses how Richard C. Doty, a US Air Force special agent, shared false information about UFOs with the media and UFO enthusiasts.
Below are some links with extra details about the MJ12 documents and the discussion about them, both within and outside ufology circles. The third link from the top is the FBI's own investigation and conclusion about the MJ12 documents.
Detta inlägg med intervjun med Kevin Randle, och med de övriga länkarna, har som syfte att belysa en annan än den fysiska aspekten av UFO-fenomenet, nämligen aspekten om några av världens militär och underrättelsetjänst - med USA i spetsen - har information och material om UFO-fenomenet som de av olika anledningar inte vill dela med sig av till resten av jordens befolkning? Om ja, av vilka skäl?