Stanton Friedman's lecture "Flying Saucers and Science" from 2017

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.

Enjoy Stanton's lecture and take care!

More declassified UFO video releases? Probably, according to Dr Hal Puthoff

http://stardrive.org/stardrive/index.php/news2/science/23700-hal-puthoff-interview-on-uss-nimitz-ufo-close-encounter#.WyE8oGe7Ui8.google_plusone_share

**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: 

• https://medium.com/@angel-on-the-airwaves/dr-hal-puthoff-las-vegas-6-8-2018-5b07e9a0e357

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:

What does the Skinwalker Ranch tell us about the bigger picture of the UFO phenomena?

"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. 

The link to the interview with Jeremy Corbell: http://www.openminds.tv/jeremy-corbell-upcoming-documentary-on-the-skinwalker-ranch-may-15-2018/41795.

I can also recommend the interview with 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.

Here is the link to the interview: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/06/hunt-for-the-skinwalker-filmmaker-reveals-secrets-of-infamous-utah-ranch-dubbed-the-paranormal-disneyland/

I know it is very hard for even open-minded people to decide what to think or not about what is happening on the Skinwalker Ranch. 

Take care!

R Dolan's two part interview with abduction researcher, Kathleen Marden

"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.

Take care!

Dr John E. Mack on why the abduction phenomenon is important to study

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.

Take care!