UFO Media Matters

Missing UFO Evidence Part Two:

2008-07-25T07:13:00.006-05:00

Fool Me Thrice…

Larry King Live (Missing film showing Missle Shot Down By Flying Saucer)
KING: “He saw it. They confiscate”
Dr. Bob Jacobs was head of the special camera and lens operations and a witnessed to the film
Dr. Jacobs
I was there. I was there. I saw the film with my own eyes. I'm not lying. Why would I?I'm a university professor with a Ph.D. and a lot of years of good respectful research. So the (INAUDIBLE) officer may not have seen the UFO, but they saw the results of it. I saw the damn thing on film with my own eyes, so don't call me a liar and you weren't there, I was.(VILE) NYE: I didn't -- with all due respect, I'm not calling you a liar. It's just quite a step to say there was a film with remarkable images on it that the CIA confiscated, which I saw and which...JACOBS: It's quite a step they did.NYE: Yes. Which is quite a step from there to say it was definitely a spacecraft from another civilization. That's the leap that the skeptical community is reluctant to take.JACOBS: Listen, I didn't -- hey, pal, listen to me. I didn't say it was a space ship from another civilization. I said it was something in the air that we couldn't identify. Therefore, it was an unidentified flying object. It was shaped like two saucers put together with a golf ball on top. And it fired a beam that we assumed was a plasma beam at a dummy warhead and knocked it out of space. Tell me what happened. Tell me who did that. Tell me in 1964 who had that technology, pal. Not us and not the Russians and nobody I know of.”

(By the way the Larry king show was fabulous, especially for those of you who are students of psychology… look closely and you can get a great insight on how the debunker Bill Nile uses classic debunker tactics to manipulate the subject matter through diversion. Jacobs destroys this by bringing him back to the subject at hand and have him try to define what happened…brilliant!.)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/18/lkl.01.html

I think evidence has already proven “UFO craft” are in fact some kind of reality.

But a funny thing keeps happening to all this evidence.

Bad luck? In any case, or, maybe we should say, in every single case we’re looking at here in Part Two of Missing UFO Evidence, every time the government was given physical evidence, the government ‘losses’ it.

Lost it in more than one way.

Something the late, great ufologist Dr. James McDonald [see UFO MM JULY 11, 2008] mentioned in a letter triggered a question I’ve had for a long time. So I started looking at a small cross-section of cases, important cases. And voila! A thing impossible to ignore: continuing loss of UFO evidence, decade after decade…which somehow still doesn’t manage to raise a single scientist’s eyebrow.

Case #6: USAF returns obviously altered copies, loses originals to ‘fire’.
Here’s an example of evidence surrendered to the government, from the Newhouse Report, material I didn’t include when we examined part of this report recently, wherein a NAVY photographer films a flotilla of flying disks:
“Newhouse said that the Air Force didn't send the originals back to him at any time…what they did finally send back to him was a color print which he stressed was distinctly inferior to the original. Not only that, but he was positive that they had cut out the first 10 or 20 feet, which were shot when the objects were very much closer and appeared much sharper on the film.”
(On going over my telephone notes, I just noted another point on the lost film. It was at the time of the movie-making, in the mid-1950s, that he wrote to the Air Force to ask them to return the originals. A warrant officer at ATIC told him the originals had been lost in a fire. I see further that I jotted down a direct quote on his remarks about having sent off the originals: "Very naively, I sent them the original.")

Edgag Michell The Man Who Walk On The Moon:

Lost Evidence Case #7: X15 Test

Pilot Walker’s 6 Films Take A Walk.
On May 11, 1962 NASA pilot Joseph Walker said that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. It was the second time he had filmed UFOs in flight. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washington he said:
"I don't feel like speculating about them. All I know is what appeared on the film which was developed after the flight."
To date none of those films has been released to the public for viewing.
Source:
Lost Evidence Case #8: 1965’s Heflin UFO Photos: Dehoaxified When Original Polaroids Surface!
The Heflin photos, taken in Santa Ana, California, in 1965 were regarded as most probably genuine…until 1968. Back in the day, scientists and other UFO researchers asked difficult questions that would remain unanswered until the 1990s. Provenance of the Heflin photos was at question, and not only topically: the four original photos had been taken by unidentified persons posing as government personnel! According to debunkers these photos were unimportant-- probably hoaxed. In 1993, Heflin’s Polaroid originals surfaced unexpectedly under mysterious circumstances. But the photos were important enough to somebody to be kept in pristine shape for almost 30 years.

The tests were finally carried out, proving how important they were. 30 years too late. Who, but a select few, even listened? Here’s your chance to catch up:

“Our team’s reanalysis of the set of four Heflin UFO photos lead us to draw
the following conclusions: (a) The clouds in all four photos are consistent; (b)we have detected a wake, never before reported to our knowledge, impressively suggesting a real object moving through the atmosphere; (c) the mid-1970s GSW analysis that showed a “string” was a stunning error, certainly not based on legitimate copies, and possibly hoaxed itself, by persons unknown, on the copies Spaulding and GSW used; (d) the notations on the back of the first three photos suggest they were part of a covert analysis; (e) James E. McDonald, erroneously led to believe that the fourth photo was taken at a different time and place from the first three Heflin photos, missed a golden opportunity…
Source: ________________________________________________________

Lost Evidence Case #9: Dwarves, Balloons, and Tinfoil Over New Mexico.
If it wasn’t a spaceship that crashed at Roswell, where is the evidence of MOGUL weather balloon pieces? Or pieces of the crashed plane carrying the dead dwarves? Where is this evidence? Where is the required, routine notification back up the chain of command to MOGUL, the message that went something like “Hey! We found your balloon! Caused a great deal of ruckus --we even thought it was a spaceship.”

Why does this happen over and over again? Why is the history of this “unimportant topic” across all those decades of Air Force and NASA involvement just riddled with a blatant thread of --dare I say it-- conspiracy?

When the evidence does turn up, maybe it’s also showing some individuals in the government really do have a sense of faith in the people’s ability to decide.

And when we seem to get a line on resurrected evidence, it’s almost a moot cause.

Because it is old news.

But truth takes a long time to shine sometimes and in the Portage, Ohio 1966 case, it took till 2006.

Lost Evidence Case #10: Persecution of Cops Who Said They Didn’t Chase Venus.
The Sheriff of Portage County, Pennsylvania, was ordered to hide evidence that would have cleared the names of two deputies the media would falsely hype as “cops chasing Venus through three counties.”

But sometimes, you learn as much from what’s missing, as from what’s left out in the open.

And so it was with the missing evidence of Portage, evidence which, by its absence, not only reveals what happened, but shows who was really in charge in 1966 and long after. Who was in charge of the lost, suppressed, and planted evidence of this last infamous case can only have been a group with very high secret clearance and power… enough power to give the orders to the County Sheriff to hide conclusive evidence that it was not Venus the officers chased, but a radar-verifiable, “trace leaving” UFO. And more: to not just deny, but to give out false accounts and inject the lie that the officers were not really there or at least close by when the UFO actually landed. (The Officers were allowed to tell all but there was no evidence except their testimony and since Venus was in that place in the sky it was the pronounced verdict by PBB. There was no planted evidence just absence of evidence)

The County Sheriff of Portage, PA, was even instructed to hide evidence including soil samples of the actual landing site from the officer, the public, and even Project Blue Book…their own USAF’s home team! Go figure. Those high-clearance officials coordinated the marginalizing of officers reports which then deverted attention off of who owned the “official looking car”(their car) right next to where the “UFO” had landed . The officers weren’t fired outright but that report lead to dead end careers and harassment and ultimately family problems. Who except the UFO folks followed it anyway.

The County Sheriff of Portage, PA, was even instructed to hide all the evidence as reported by sworn officers of the law --sightings, to radar, to a witnessed UFO landing-- from the investigators in Project Blue Book, the USAF’s home team! Go figure. Were those high-clearance officials who coordinated first the silencing, then harassment and firing of the local law enforcement convinced that UFOs were so unimportant…that they didn’t want to bother Project Blue Book with the evidence? Is that why the power group convinced the very County officials who collected the hard evidence, to throw it away?

Convince me I am not living an Orwellian nightmare.

Our Air Force, the most powerful in the world, is either incompetent or knows exactly what it’s doing.

And while I’m at it, NASA, I don’t want to hear anymore about how you’re really a “private organization”. Since the beginning days till now you have not been forthright.

We all have a reason to be very angry at this. Over the years we have been told there was not one shred of evidence… what should have been said Is…”because of many governments on earth we don’t have a shred of evidence…Yes other governments, please don’t get me started on the other governments…Or Maybe I will?

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters

Missing UFO Evidence Part One:

2008-07-17T15:23:00.003-05:00

Fool Me Twice…

"You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Bob Dylan

You’ve heard it before: there is not one shred of evidence UFOs exist.

But the truth is, UFO history gives us plenty of physical evidence of UFOs.

Why don’t your friends and neighbors get this simple fact? Not to mention the science community…

In this two-part series, I examine 10 spectacular UFO physical evidence examples, and the lies, theft, blatant alteration and disappearance of evidence…and worse. All apparently accomplished by our own government --accountable to you and me, the taxpayers and voters-- and predominantly through the agency of the United States Air Force.

We can all agree there are good folks, many people of goodwill, in all our armed forces. But how many people up and down lines of command for how many generations and decades now have been involved in destroying physical evidence?

We’ll look at 5 cases here, 5 more in Part Two.

Lost Evidence Case #1: One dead dog, disappeared debris plus two dead researchers.
Let’s start with a widely documented historic case popular authors and scientists alike overlook. Welcome to Maury Island. You can visit, but you may never leave.

Maury Island Report UFO Drops Material In boat Kills Dog:
“After seeing the debris and hearing the story, Brown and Davidson decided that it was a hoax. They took a box of the debris and told Arnold they had to leave. They drove to McCord Field and told the intelligence officer there that they felt it was a hoax. They hadn't told Arnold because they didn't want to embarrass him, he was so taken in by Dahl and Crisman. The next morning, August 1, they boarded a B-25 back to Hamilton Field. A few hours later, they were killed when the B-25 crashed.
“They made much of the fact that the crew chief and a passenger were able to bail out, but that Brown and Davidson were not…
Arnold packed up and flew home in disgust. On the way home, however, he crashed his plane at Pendleton because somehow the fuel valve had gotten turned off. He wasn't hurt. Crisman and Dahl seem to have vanished. No one could find them. According to Jenny Randles, two intelligence analysts who studied the case in 1980 said it had all the earmarks of an intelligence operation”.

http://ufos.about.com/od/ufofolkloremythlegend/p/mauryisland.htm

Lost Evidence Case #2: Missing Frames From Big Sky Country:
The Great Falls, Montana UFO Color Film of Two UFOs.
August 15, 1950.
“When he received his film back from the Air Force, Mariana was surprised to find that the earliest, best portion of the film, that showing what he said were the two objects with a notch or band at the outer edge and an obvious spinning movement, was missing. He estimated that about 35 frames were gone.”

After investigation and analysis, the author concludes:
“In spite of the Air Force's claims to the contrary, there is strong evidence that the film sequence was clipped after it had been sent to the Air Force in 1950.

Source: http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm
More Proof: DC Press Conference November 12th 2007

Lost Evidence Case #3: The Infamy of Mantel’s Crash--or--
“I See People In This Thing!”
Richard T. Miller, who was in the Operations Room of Scott Air Force Base in Belleville, Illinois…made several profound statements regarding the crash. He was monitoring the radio talk between Mantel and Godman tower, and heard this statement very clearly. "My God, I see people in this thing! (UFO)"

In conclusion, Miller made this statement, "that evening, Air Technical Intelligence Center officers from Wright-Patterson AFB arrived and ordered all personnel to turn over any materials relating to the crash.”Then, after we had turned it over to them, they said they had already completed the investigation." "I was no longer a skeptic. I had been up to that time. Now I wondered why the Government had gone to all of the trouble of covering it up, to keep it away from the press and the public."
http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm

So, in Mantel, a brave pilot chases a UFO in 1948; he dies in a crash, but ground control has all of the tapes of his conversation. Where are those tapes now? It was 1948, and they still have to keep secret a pilot chasing “Venus” or a secret project?

What happened --is happening even now-- to all this evidence?

Lost Evidence Case #4: The USAF Makes The Astronaut A Liar?
Col. Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Historic Mercury Flight’s Astronaut, tells the story in his own video feature of UFO landing.
“…former Astronaut disclosed that while the crew was out there, they spotted a strange-looking craft above the lake bed, and they began taking films of it.
I Wonder were the files Are? More Proof DC Press Conference:

Cooper says the object was very definitely “hovering above the ground. And then it slowly came down and sat on the lake bed for a few minutes." All during this time the motion picture cameras were filming away…
Col. Cooper was not fortunate enough to be outside at the time of this incredible encounter, but he did see the films as soon as they were rushed through the development process.
After he reviewed the film at least a dozen times, the footage was quickly forwarded to Washington. Cooper no doubt expected to get a reply in a few weeks' time as to what his men had seen and photographed, but there was no word, and the movie *vanished* - never to surface again... “
Source: http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm
Where’s the movie, especially if it proves UFO don’t exist? Where’s the movie, if this was really critical documentation of some type of “experimental craft”?
Is anyone going to tell me a 1958 experimental craft is still secret?
Where’s the beef, USAF? Prove UFOs are really just ours! You guys have the documents and film, right?
Lost Evidence Case #5: The Gemini Switcheroo.
Astronaut and American Hero James McDivitt took photographs Of UFO:
In June 1965, Major James McDivitt saw, filmed, and photographed an object, which approached the Gemini IV (3rd June – 7th June 1965) capsule in which they were orbiting the Earth, passing over Hawaii. The UFO had a long arm sticking out of it. McDivitt did not see any special importance in what he saw. He did not file any UFO report, he also always insisted that it was not the Titan II booster. He also never gave an opinion about the nature of what he saw. Some researchers rightfully noted that the astronauts eyesight was affected by the long exposition to the oxygen saturated atmosphere in the Gemini capsule…Almost everyone agrees that it could not have been a human satellite, such as a secret US satellite or a Russian craft. In conclusion, there is no certainty. The publicized picture is not the correct one, and the correct one will probably never be seen.
Source: http://ufologie.net/indexe.htm

Missing UFO Evidence Part Two:
next Friday, July 24.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters

The Last Scientist Part 2

2008-07-10T17:51:00.003-05:00

"I saw 10,000 people who's tongues where all broken... Bob Dylan

“It wasn’t just one UFO that landed at noon on July 17 1955, but two. They landed three or four streets apart. One was in Bexleyheath, King Harold’s Way. All the people came out of their houses. There must have been at least 170 people standing around this thing.”
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/07/07/public-are-in-denial-over-ufos-says-investigator-55578-21272583/

How do you talk about a man who was a giant but now, to trendy ufologists, is nothing more than a footnote? A man who stood head and shoulders above the people who destroyed him…

In UFO history this giant’s hardly mentioned, while others are championed as heroes. Today the cult of celebrity means it’s more important to be known…than what you are known for.

Dr. James McDonald never wanted to leave the mainstream scientific community. In fact, Dr. McDonald was counting on the scientific establishment to support the unraveling of the UFO phenomenon because he was a member.

James McDonald understood that if sloppy science were allowed to stand as explanation for UFOs, then nothing put forward as evidence by UFO researchers --save the final smoking gun proof-- would ever be looked at seriously.

Sloppy science had to be discounted right away, McDonald believed. And not with rhetoric and disinformation campaigns, but by logically refuting the science around the explanation, and examining the science, sloppy or otherwise, right along with your scientific colleagues.

McDonald had qualities other researchers did not possess. Because he was both well-respected as an authority and genuinely liked by the larger scientific community, Dr. McDonald was extremely dangerous. So stopping him was a must.
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As time has begun to show us, McDonald’s approach to research was right.

Run this inventory yourself: in the last 60 years have you witnessed any real change in the attitude of science on UFOs? Isn’t it still true that a talking head science expert on TV can throw out the most outlandish explanation for any facet of the UFO phenom and it’s never, ever challenged?

The other tragedy of the inquisition mounted against McDonald back in the day --no matter what you and I might imagine UFOs will ultimately turn out to be-- is that the debunkers, along with the government, have effectively halted pure science research projects on this important reality.

By destroying or marginalizing anyone and any evidence pointing to the reality of this phenomenon, not only were careers ruined, but pure science was ended and the debate controlled.

Seventy-odd years later, we’re still debating what these things in the sky and landing in our fields are, yet the evidence for their existence continues, with global reporting from citizens of every nation.

November 2007 Washington DC Press Conference "Close Encounters"

One of the wonderful approaches Dr. McDonald took was going right to the source: the witnesses. McDonald took witness testimony at face value, regarded testimony as both specific and as an organic whole, and then built his explanation around the entirety of that testimony. Our young UFO researchers would do well to stop cherry-picking testimony and adopt an attitude of empathy for the witness. I hope we can find a scientist with the credentials and the fire in his heart to look at UFO reality with eyes unclouded.

And McDonald understood something else largely forgotten today. Science is here to help us not to devalue us.

McDonald certainly knew what UFO witnesses face when just trying to find some explanation for their experience. McDonald’s core method is best illustrated when he revisits Newhouse, a famous case initially considered unexplainable.

In Newhouse, the main witness, a Navy photographer, took 16mm film of the event. The images became the center of controversy when the original investigation refuted familiar explanations, like birds, jets, balloons. Another important conclusion found these objects to be “a light source (themselves) rather than reflected light…” Interesting, too, how the expert who came to that conclusion was the same man who would later discover Russian atomic missiles hidden in Cuba…but, to hear the debunkers of the day spin it, even that amazing achievement didn’t qualify him to analyze UFO cases.

Later, as McDonald reviews the case, we can see how his logical, organic method is to listen to the witness first. McDonald goes back to the people who experienced the event and highlights their original story. And it’s this central fact that proves how the debunkers --and even contemporary ufology stars like Kevin Randles-- find it too easy to forget the flesh and blood of this story, preferring instead to nit pick what the evidence, the technical revelations of the 16mm film ‘might’ mean. McDonald’s method demands we look at what the witnesses say, and at what the captured images show, instead of trying to make direct testimony and images fit belief systems or accepted theory.

In this famous case a Navy photographer --who was, after all, you debunkers out there, just the “trained observer” you guys keep screaming about-- along with his wife and two children witnessed a group of UFOs fly over their heads. They filmed the objects.
One object stopped in the sky, then returned in the same path. It was explained away as birds by debunkers.

Here in this excerpt from a letter, McDonald reflects on his conversation with the Newhouse Family:

“I had a long telephone discussion with Delbert Clement Newhouse (Naval Photographer) last night. He was the one in El Cajon; the other one, amusingly enough, is his son. His son recently retired from Naval Aviation duty and now flies with United Airlines. We covered a lot of relevant points…

Shortly after I identified myself and we got down to brass tacks, Newhouse asked his wife to get on an extension phone, so I had the double benefit of getting comments from both of them as we went over details of that July 2, 1952 incident.”

Kudos to the women of ufology, by the way, like Mrs. Trent, Mrs. Hill, and Mrs. Newhouse, for keeping it honest.
“As you will recall, one of the key points that I wanted to check with Newhouse concerned the description given by Ruppelt (and repeated in Baker's analysis as reproduced in the 1968 Congressional hearings), namely, that they appeared to be silvery-gray, "gunmetal", and like two pie pans face-to-face. Both Newhouse and his wife fully confirmed that, Newhouse comparing the shape to a discus in his comments to me. Mrs. Newhouse pointed out that they occasionally tipped, so that their round projected area, as seen in the “initial portions of the sighting” when they were nearly overhead, was replaced occasionally by a side-view exhibiting their discoid shape. There was not the slightest equivocation or any element of uncertainty as either of them discussed that very important point”.
This is how McDonald researched his sighting by building a hypothesis around the entirety of what the witness said. Not via the lazy path where witness testimony is sliced, diced and cherry-picked according to the flavor-of-the-month theory.
Now here’s another remarkable moment in UFO history, where a respected scientist documents witness testimony, making sure we understand that science must value the citizens’ powers of observation and understanding of their surroundings, including their definitive statements that local flora and fauna are not what’s being reported:
“…latter parts of our conversation, that his son and daughter had gotten fairly good views of the objects, too. The son was then 14, the daughter, 12. He said that, in the minds of all four of them, there was not the slightest suspicion that what they had seen were gulls. This, he emphasized, was because, when first seen, the shapes were very distinct and bore no relation at all to sea gulls. He made further remarks to the effect that he supposes that others who have gotten good looks at UFOs must have about the same feeling he does”.
http://ufologie.net/htm/tremontonmcdonald.htm#doc
Full Discussion:
http://ufologie.net/htm/tremontonarticle01.htm

After the constant attacks and the breakup of his marriage, Dr. James McDonald put a gun to his head.

Pure science for science sake was killed that day, and I still wait for it’s resurrection.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
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The Last Scientist Part 1

2008-07-03T20:52:00.003-05:00

"Thus I freely admit that in arriving at my proposals I have been guided, in the last analysis, by value judgments and predilections. But I hope that my proposals may be acceptable to those who value not only logical rigor but also freedom from dogmatism; who seek practical applicability, but are even more attracted by the adventure of science, and by discoveries which again and again confront us with new and unexpected questions, challenging us to try out new and hitherto undreamed-of answers.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery"
By Karl Popper
http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderblogs/thornhill.htm

There are scientists and there are scientists. Dr. James McDonald was one of those true scientists: an adventurer. In "Firestorm " a biography by Ann Druffel, I got a lot closer to understanding what it’s like experiencing the pure joy of honest scientific thought.

We have many more scientists today, but how many of them are engaged in pure science? Dr. McDonald had a passionate love of pure science. You know what the pure kind is--the kind before ego gets involved.

Unfortunately it was through that passion that McDonald was destroyed. I’m certain McDonald’s presence would be powerful today…if he hadn’t committed suicide

So who was this man professional debunker the late Phil Klass tried to destroy?

Dr. James McDonald was the debunker of the bunk purveyors, people like Phil ‘No Class’ Klass and Dr. Donald ‘Merely’ Menzel.

McDonald was sharper than guys like these could ever hope to be, and they knew it. McDonald had the sharpest scientific mind --on both sides of the UFO controversy-- even to this day. He was also a great teaching professor, and we all know about that kind, too: the prof the students love, the lecturer who really teaches and fires them up, the inspiring kind of teacher and scientist. That was James McDonald. When the good Professor McDonald taught he never used notes, he had that kind of memory. From Firestorm:
“McDonald believed that curiosity was the heart of science”

Most of our scientists today seem to have more answers than curiosity,

Debunkers don’t really want to talk about McDonald’s good science on the possibilities of UFO reality, they’d rather take the easy way out and slander. Make that almost slander, since the professional debunkers have typically been too legal-minded to use full-on, prosecutable slander.

But it is true that McDonald was a pure scientist, something so rare it’s hardly thought of these days. He was like a monk who hadn’t learned the difference between the divine and the church.

Pure science was largely corrupted by government, with research grants cautiously doled out until the field of endeavor was no longer about science, but scientific funding. You had to toe the line to get the government money and the government told you what the line was.

But McDonald had a passion, transforming the value of inquiry into an almost spiritual belief that science should always be applied objectively, no matter what. Yet he was also a very practical researcher who did not spend time on those UFO cases he felt were patently absurd.

McDonald was tough on UFOs, but at the end of the day you knew the UFO reports Dr. McDonald couldn’t explain, nobody else --scientist or debunker-- could explain, either.

McDonald did what only a few UFO researchers do today: he went to the witnesses.
The minute McDonald debunked the science used to explain UFO sightings he became a problem. But it was because other scientists liked and respected him that he became a major problem. He didn’t know that the people he was rubbing the wrong way were radicals. These radical thinkers come in all guises but are the same type we find in fundamentalist religious groups and even inside the UFO community. These ‘I’m right no matter what’ people are addicted to lockstep thinking, and they can be dangerous if they go after you.

First, a telling scene from classic Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Lionel Barrymore plays a sleazy bank president trying to destroy his more honest competitor, James Stewart, owner of a small town savings and loan. Stewart’s a good guy who approves loans to good honest working people of meager economic means in his community. Initially the corrupt banker tries to make a deal with Stewart and they shake on it. Stewart notices his hand is wet with sweat from the banker’s hand, and starts to walk out. At the moment he realizes what type of person he is dealing with, he understands that’s just what the banker lives for: to break down and corrupt honest men, to feel justified in his horrible actions, and most of all, to feel superior.

Enter Phil Klass in James McDonald’s life.

This Is How McDonald Would Have Loved It:
Nov 12 2007 National Press Club Wash. DC:

McDonald, after some common sense and research, had come to believe some UFOs were not explained by science. McDonald also made it his business to correct any sloppy science which was put forward to explain UFOs by other scientist.
Menzel found that out about McDonald rather quickly.
After a brief era of cordiality between Phil Klass and McDonald (and Stanton Friedman told me once that Klass was likable), the friendlier state of affairs ended when McDonald pointed out one of Phil’s “plasmoid” (ball lighting) explanations for a certain UFO sighting was impossible in atmospheric physics.

Klass started to hunt McDonald like a jackal hunting prey. Klass alerted the Navy, asking the brass if they knew McDonald was spending their money to investigate UFOs, by way of suggesting McDonald was either irresponsible or corrupt.

When the Navy replied McDonald had permission to do just that and did more than anticipated on all of his other duties, Klass continued to go up the line, hollering wasted money till he started to hit pay dirt.

Don’t you feel safer knowing good old Phil (No Class) Klass was watching out for us by destroying the reputations of decent people? Of course all this was nonsense. But Klass, defender of the faith and guardian of your tax dollars, continued his program of harassment.

McDonald was a kind of workaholic. Klass and Menzel could throw out their half-ass ‘scientific’ explanations untested, and only the brave would reply. It was simply that most scientists didn’t believe and some scientist couldn’t believe, but if any of them had checked they would have known. I’m sure they told themselves all kinds of reasons why they didn’t pursue looking at the exlanations seriously and carefully.

But thanks largely to the ceaseless program of attack-dog methods practiced --perhaps coordinated-- by Klass and Menzel, the only honest reason serious scientists of the era could give to avoiding proposing research projects or even commenting on the whole range of science related to ufology was lack of courage.

McDonald lectured before many scientific bodies and demonstrated how their explanations were frankly wrong, no question! He embarrassed scientists in front of their peers. Menzel --long a State Department ‘advisor’ in Latin America-- we know now was probably connected with intelligence. But I think from what I read, to Menzel, it was also personal with McDonald.

Here’s one example when McDonald demolished Klass. At a conference McDonald addressed Klass’s Plasma as The Theory of Everything UFO, citing a case where a bright object followed a plane. Take a good look at this one. A UFO reported as a bright light followed a plane almost --dare I say-- intelligently. Klass does a little scientific juggling and notices how his “plasmoids” (ball lighting) can be attracted to a negative charge much like that, he said, a dusty airplane might produce; therefore, the ball lighting followed the dusty plane. According, at least to Klass’s selective application of a primary physics principle.

Problem is, after McDonald gets out the slide rule and does some calculations, he uses a little science and some math to determine that the airplane would have to be moving slower than a person could pace, almost hovering, just so this ‘ball lightning’ could follow.

All these years, and at last! I have the answer: it was a UFO that was there, invisible, hovering, then flying next to the plane captured by a negative charge so the “Plasmaoid” must have been attracted to it. Guess that makes more sense than a walking airplane…

Dr. McDonald grew influential through his impeccable science and NICAP’s reputation as an organization flourished. Because NICAP had the top UFO research team with the most clout, it became a conduit for good reports and research. And so behind the lines even more influential eyes were watching, and it seems other powerful groups had planned for this very turn of events.

Part Two of The Last Scientist:
Science Loses A Friend

The Sound Of Silence

2008-06-27T08:02:00.005-05:00

Marcy, Boss and other scientists are optimistic that within the next five or so years headlines will be splashed with news of a near twin of Earth in another star system...“Now we know enough to say that Earth-like planets are indeed orbiting many of those stars, unseen perhaps, but there nevertheless."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080624/sc_space/astronomersonvergeoffindingearthstwin

Date: January 31, 2008 Location: Indiana, United States
"I was home alone and decided to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and maybe find a snack. Just as I approached the kitchen/dining room area (they're the same room and we have a bay-window/patio door there) I noticed what I immediately thought was a helicopter about 300-400 feet away, just across the street and above the tree-line. Because we kind of live in the country, I thought that was unusual... then it hit me that I couldn't hear any noise at all!

One of the most incredible abilities of UFO craft, no matter what size, is the SILENCE. This powerful aspect of the phenomenon is easily forgotten in the slide rule debates that often sidetrack us from the reality of the sighting.

But the people who see these things rather close notice the silence all the time, and it amazes them. It’s the silence that often makes them look closer. Silence not only intrigues witnesses, it also tantalizes the technology sector. After all, it’s the highly competitive aeronautics industries of developed nations who’re trying their best to make a silent fighter craft. They will achieve it…because someone already has.

The sound issue is also overlooked by the media. When the Air Force trotted out the F-16 explanation about the close encounters in the Stephenville Texas case, didn’t you want to scream! The debunkers claimed it was a jet, and they and the mainstream media just ignored the sound issue.

Why is it mainstream media and your local scientist, who so diligently want to protect us from falsehood, easily accept this voodoo, this anti-science propaganda?

If you ask any debunker why, they’ll tell you it’s to protect the public from untruths, like UFOs and other myths.

But the biggest myth of all is…you just can’t explain away UFO close encounters with jets, because the damned things are utterly silent.
I wish the debunkers would pay me a dollar for every time someone in our country has called an airport or airbase to complain about the extreme noise of the incoming planes. I bet that would end their “silent jet” explanation.

We’ve let them get away with their mindless mantra, jets, jets, jets for too long.

Let’s come back from Planet Debunker, and hear what the witnesses have to say:

Date: August 28, 2007 Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

"My wife and I both witnessed a craft over Seattle, WA on August 28, 2007... What struck me is that my ears were waiting for the roar of this craft's engines as it flew past us. We did not hear a sound and it appeared to be gliding at a constant speed on a fixed trajectory…”

Date: October 8, 2005 Location: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

“After about 2 minutes and maybe a thousand meters from where we first noticed it, a grey/white craft broke out of the water right where the white wave was and it continued to move in the same direction except this time it was flying in the air. From what I could see, I could not make out any conventional means of propulsion that I know of, no propeller, no rotors, no jet exhaust and completely silent from where I was.”

Date: September 17, 2003 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

"Witness reports that on September 17, 2003, he and his wife were out jogging near their home, approximately 12-14 miles north of downtown Atlanta, GA, when their attention was suddenly drawn by a bizarrely lighted "panel of lights" in the evening sky. They witnessed the object for only an estimated 3-6 seconds as it silently glided across the night sky.”

Date: February, 1986 Location: Franklin, North Carolina, USA

"The outline of the craft was indistinct but the mass blocked the stars and sky while it passed overhead. It was totally silent...It was no more than about 300 feet up and moving at a crawl, maybe 10 mph, it was massive and approximately 100 yards (300 feet) in-between each light... As the craft moved over us, it performed an amazing feat!... it stopped and turned up on its axis and cart wheeled off into the eastern sky!"

Date: March, 1958 Location: Bouhamama, Algeria

Legionnaire N.G., was on sentry duty at a Foreign Legion camp at Bouahmama during the Algerian War, when he saw an enormous, roundish object descending. It stopped when it was about 35-40 metres above the ground, and began to hover there, motionless and silent. He estimated it to be as much as 350 metres wide. The witness feels that something most unusual happened to him psychologically

Date: October 3, 1958 Location: Monon, Indiana, USA
(multiple witnesses)

"The freight train is pretty noisy, of course, but I didn't hear any other noise, like the roar an airplane would have made. I think they were silent, or nearly silent, at least…They flew over us one after the other - big, round white things that looked about the color of fluorescent lights, kind of fuzzy around the edges. They didn't glare and they didn't light up things as they went over. They just came back toward us, over the top of the cars, one after the other. Then they went on down the tracks maybe another half a mile and seemed to stop."

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/ufocaseshome.asp

My “Sound Of Silence” Vidoe Clip Maussan & Graza DVDs:

None of these are jets! Other equally ridiculous explanations have been balloons and birds. Balloons don’t hold a constant spin and straight trajectory. Birds don’t pivot on their axes to generate different forms and light patterns as UFOs did in these films.

These are the details we should remind people, the details inside the details. The sound of silence has been ignored for a long time.

When I started to learn how to mediate one teacher told me…when you start to quiet things down for the first time you will notice the silence, the silence that comes on like thunder.

Maybe it’s time we, the research community, make sure the UFO sound of silence comes on like thunder.

Update:
Had Quote This, so applicable, and from a great Link Site:
http://www.anomalist.com/

"This may explain why some NT residents reported they were seeing UFOs."(Jet Explanation Again!)
http://www.thinkingaustralia.com/news/brief_view.asp?id=530

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Mind Talk

2008-06-19T16:50:00.004-05:00

'you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald"s books... you're very well read it's well known...but something is happening here and you don't know what it is...do you Mister Jones"

"Tribute To UFO Witnesses"video follows post.

What really happens when you’re confronted by an alien? You can see it clearly standing there, looking at you and --by nearly all reports-- talking to you in your mind, telling you “Don’t be afraid, keep staring”.

The following authentic recording under hypnosis of Barney Hill (see the landmark Barney and Betty Hill abduction case) made by Mr. Hill’s psychiatrist allows each of us to witness Mr. Hill reliving this moment of contact.

Warning: it’s scary.

But while we can hear the fear on the recording all these years later, Barney remembered none of the terror when he arrived home later that night.

And what about us? Who’s hypnotized us, so we in the civilian research community have forgotten the fear and terror that is so often the true nature of the basic experience overlaid by all our blogging and conferences, lectures and book tours?

Why is empathy utterly lacking in the UFO field? Bloggers write about UFO witnesses as if they were nothing more than abstraction, spikes in a line on a graph.

So I’m wondering: would we feel the same if the Hills were in a horrible, spectacular accident? Say, a highly publicized plane crash? What does it take for the rest of us, the amateurs and the professionals on both sides of the Great Question, to risk a little empathy? The human terror we can now all be witness to on this tape should be engraved on every serious ufology commentator’s mind --especially if the commentator’s been guilty of the current wholesale disregard for witness integrity. What have we become as as a community when we so routinely make light of contactees’ courage?

Mr. Hill’s uncensored and vital expression on this recording should be a wake-up call to commentators on both sides of the ufology debate. Of course, even before Barney Hill walked bravely into UFO history-- he was already a hero, a civil rights activist when lynching and shooting of black men who spoke out against injustice was still happening, and when the interracial marriage he shared with his wife Betty was illegal in most of these United States.

So what would it be like to have a voice in your head, a voice you’re forced to realize is actually coming from a strange being with large eyes and a face that registers no trace of humanity, no emotion?

Many witnesses describe interaction with these beings as if they were wide awake yet watching themselves walk through some dream. But doesn’t the typical close encounter report seem a lot more like what we’d call a hypnotic state? Then there are the beginnings and endings of these strange interspecies transactions, as when humans are knocked unconscious with apparently nothing more than an ET’s touch. But the aliens’ control is not perfect, hence Betty’s dress was torn when she tried to resist.

I call this aspect of the contact transaction Mind Talk, because I don’t think the humans suddenly become telepathic. In most reports, it seems more likely the alien entity is making the mind connection and talking in the person’s language. What I’m noticing is that both the sending and receiving is instigated and controlled by the ET.

The other famous Betty case, the Betty Andreasson contact, is a prime example of a Mind Talk. This case was investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s team. Notice in the excerpt from the report below, how Betty’s feelings seem to be controlled:

“Before he could regain his composure, he saw the beings walk right through the wooden door! What happened next would test the imagination and strength of even an open-minded, adventurous person. The entire family was suddenly put into a state of suspended animation. One of the creatures went to Betty's father, while one of the other four began to make telepathic communication with Betty. One of the group seemed to be a leader of sorts. He was about five-feet tall. The other four appeared to be about a foot shorter. All of the beings had a pear-shaped head, with wide eyes, and small ears and noses. Their mouths were only slits, and never moved, though they were able to communicate through their minds….

“The creatures did not move as a human, but floated as they went. Betty would later relate that, though she was frightened, she felt a sense of calm, even friendship toward the beings.”
http://www.ufocasebook.com/Andreasson.html

When you get into the details and follow the Mind Talk, the alien or entity does not always seem to know what human emotions are being expressed, or even that particular emotions are appropriate in the abduction. Does this indicate that a deep connection does not take place, at least not at first?

However, some alien species seem to have the ability to absolutely control contactees via their minds, as the contactees are completely subdued, even in the most terrifying interactions. Many abductees claim new or increased psychic abilities after consistent abductions. If these abilities are something our vistors can induce, could it be the psychic abilities are cultivated by certain alien species for easier communication?

I always remind myself the evidence shows that when people are abducted, the entities are mostly in charge. But shouldn’t we be following these cases more carefully, with a view to determine the visitors’ apparent strengths…and weaknesses?

Some contactee clues from the Mind Talk transactions we must consider:
--Do the visitors have the intellectual complexity to stage events?
--Are some of the visitor events confusing by design?
--Do the visitors know mind suggestion is not perfect at either end of the transaction?
--Are the visitors running a Plan B scenario alongside the more apparent contact event as a failsafe of their own?
--Or is this event-within-an-event type contact designed to dismay the bright ones among us when a given event finally becomes public, by injecting increasingly confusing or apparently contradictory data?

For the truly curious, doing an inventory of possible motives in ET behavior by asking “why would we do this if we were we were real aliens?” can be useful, but there’s no way from the human vantage point, to know what final or combination of motives is in actually governing the interactions.

If you take the history of UFOs together, you’ll agree many of our prime investigators have a fundamental problem with ET behavior, believing it mystical. Many professionals inside the ufology community --the only group that is doing extensive research on UFOs-- is torn about what the ETs really are, because some of the visitor behaviors don’t make sense.

Case in point: the NIDS team believed whatever they were facing at Skinwalker Ranch was not intelligent and therefore stealth wasn’t needed. The previous owner, the person who had the most experience with this phenomenon on the ranch, disagreed with this “intelligent decision made by the scientists”. Destruction of valuable equipment and the wrecking of the larger experiment was the result of presupposing the humans knew what motivated the visitors, aliens, or other groups of entities encountered at Skinwalker Ranch. NIDS concluded incidents of telepathy of some sort were involved, due to predictive accuracy about NIDS surveillance controls and movement of personnel by the entities, but the telepathic connection didn’t involve Mind Talk.

Making important conclusions or policy decisions about a species that interacts through their minds is a job best left for the species anthropologists of the future…if we have any. But the idea is mind boggling. Think about deep telepathy between species on a strategic basis: how could you lie…or be diplomatic…or even the least bit tactful?

If you believe the solid reports of Barney and Betty Hill and other courageous abductees, and the claim for ongoing contact with the ET military officials claim survived Roswell, we know the gray type aliens are real. What else they are is still up for debate. But a world without speech is something to think about. It could be part of our own evolutionary future.
Video: "Tribute To UFO Witnesses"

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Who’s Really Getting Hoaxed? Part 2

2008-06-11T08:49:00.002-05:00

“ I couldn’t abandon The witnesses” Angelia Joiner

Since the first “flying saucer” report by Kenneth Arnold until this day, UFO witnesses have been exploited. Whether it was to sell a book with a certain theory or to make money some other way, exploiting witnesses has been the name of the game. Of course, some exploitation is good when it is used in the proper context and gives credibility to the witnesses and experiences regarding the events. It is not the root of all evil.
So I get a little uneasy with the self righteous nature of some of these bloggers and researchers who aim their criticisms at the UFO witness.
How many UFO witnesses have put their trust in a UFO researcher, only to feel betrayed? Travis Walton comes to mind.

Two of the major movements, “Exopolitics” and “The Disclosure Projects,” exploit witnesses at press conferences by wrapping them around projects not necessarily related to the witnesses, but they also wrap these sincere UFO witnesses, who are hoping for answers, inside a public agenda the witnesses may not even agree with.

PRG (Exopolotics) e-mailed me the following on Peckman’s politicking around the “Stan Rominick” case:

“PRG fully supports Jeff Peckman's efforts to further demystify and broaden the public engagement of the extraterrestrial presence issue… he is a long standing political activist who has engaged a range of issues and run for office. The exopolitical process leading toward formal disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence has been held back by the unwillingness of non-exopolitical activists and activist organizations to challenge the ridicule curtain and join the disclosure process for mutual benefit.”

Notice, hardly a mention of good old Stan and his problems of loss of credibility due to Peckman’s agenda.…because it is really not about Stan or the other witnesses: it’s about agendas.
Those of us who have had life changing UFO sightings know what it can mean to feel validated. Unlike many of my colleagues claims, I am affected by other people’s feelings. Telling a UFO experience can cause a great deal of pain. The UFO witnesses, especially those with ongoing experiences, are frightened, sometimes even shattered, by the very unknowns these incidents present. The pressure on the family can be horrendous; divorces are more prevalent than you think; even financial problems can occur.

There is an old saying:
“ I can handle the evil done in the name of evil but heaven help us the evil done in the name of good.”

When Angelia Joiner who was running stories UFO witnesses in the Stephenville town newspaper she was asked to cut them off, that they were unimportant, and to stop taking messages But she knew what they were going through. Here was her answer:

DVD X Conference 2007

Packman is a politician. He wanted to make news and he did. It appears that he cared very little about protecting Stan’s credibility. From what I understand, there is solid evidence behind SM’s case. Of course, in Exoplotics’ future Stan’s case doesn’t matter…

They wrote in the e-mail,“Whatever opinion one may have of this video…” Presenting a video (which could be easily created in five minutes and put on You Tube) as the centerpiece of evidence is the stupidest thing one could do to foster credibility.
Try that in NY and you would be laughed right off the stage.
Exopolitcs think what Peckman did validates the Stan Romanek case. I think what he has done is easy fodder for the debunker…but in the end, who is going to get really be made the hoaxer- SM.
Forgetomori
“Ufology is abuzz again with a tabloid news item, as Jeff Peckman — who also sells a credit card that will save your life — showed the video of a “real living breathing alien” looking through a bedroom window to a selected audience in Denver.
The detail is that the video has not been actually released publicly, and the one above is a recreation by the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society. They also created some other videos with the same alien doll, which is in fact a very common prop, with units being auctioned on eBay and even appearing in NSFW shoots. Those blinking eyes were created in post-production, I guess, as the original doll doesn’t have that.
The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society probably didn’t spend dozens of thousand of dollars in that recreation, and yet their alien is, according to someone who watched both, looks “slightly more animated.”’
http://forgetomori.com/2008/aliens/a-naughty-living-alien-video/

Also On NewsBlogger

“All the hyped alien visit and abduction accounts to date have been soundly disproved. Scientists (as opposed to "scientists") have every interest in making contact with extraterrestrials, and most believe there are some out there (although not in Nebraska)”

“In fact, many groups are offering huge amounts of money to anyone who can prove paranormal activity. (Our favorite, magician James Randi, is offering anyone with actual proof a million dollars.) So why doesn't Stan Romanek take Randi Challenge rather than fielding softballs from Larry King?”

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008/06/02/alien-sighting-hyped-on-larry-king-live/#comments

Without evidence presented in a public forum, SM is still innocent until proven guilty; the witness is not the problem here.

What has happened to our country is reflected inside the UFO community. A witness’ experiences are no more than a public stage for many. They aren’t human…they don’t bleed.

This resulted in self reflection and the following pledge:
I will look at UFO Witnesses as people, not just for validation or as a challenge, but as people with families, even with flaws, just like everyone else. They deserve to be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Who’s Really Getting Hoaxed? Part 1

2008-06-05T20:14:00.004-05:00

I don’t know what the final truths will be on the Stan Romanek "Alien in The Window" case.

But I do know the routine: this witness, Stan, will be accused of all kinds of motives, he’ll be considered by mainstream media, as well as some ufology insiders, and professional debunkers, guilty till proven innocent.

Guilty of what?

They’ll say he’s hoaxing for fun, hoaxing for profit, or that he’s gullible, or delusional. The usual Big Four Faker Factors.

However this one resolves, I admit that personally, I would not have done it the way Peckman decided to sensationalize it.

But I’m here to help all you rational people take a deep breath …and take a closer look at some historic cases where those who shouted hoax…had ultimately hoaxed their own ‘evidence’. So-called.

Check these three outstanding examples.

1. Portage, Ohio Case, aka The Sound of Silence Is Deafening.
The explanation to this 30-plus year old case turns out to be a real UFO, cloaked; an elaborate government hoax created by a secret agency forcing a local sheriff to withhold crucial evidence from Project Bluebook. Because of this hoax … Police Officers statements were laughed at and they were told they were chasing Venus (through three counties).

By the way, have you even heard of this case on any other blog? Portage would prove, by the police files, how the government lied about having a secret agency to handle UFO cases far and above Project Bluebook. In this incident, the two police officers eventually had to leave their careers, which were damaged beyond repair. When the truth came out, one of the Police Officers (former officer Dale Spaur was in a hospice when they found him) said he was glad it became public and it happened before he died … But did it become public?

Don’t know of any blogger who’s covered this… “One of the good people” cases. I guess too many bloggers are busy bashing witnesses or waiting for that one where they can prove how objective they are to the skeptics.

I found two places where this great update on the famous UFO of Portage Ohio case was highlighted. MUFON Journal where I got the story, and my blog where I continue to follow it:
http://ufomedia.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-venus-turned-out-to-be-ufo.html

2. Rowell Flying Saucer Hoax… Or MOGUL Balloon Hoax.
The calculations presented to the scientific community (who never checked) that settled the case toward MOGUL was a “hoax”; the calculations were done as a farce, including having the balloon hovering for hours, ascending and descending (actually acting like an intelligently controlled device):
http://roswellproof.homestead.com/mogul_hoax_faq.html

3. Trent Photos. Not only did the debunkers insinuate the Trents were liars --contrary to what all of the neighbors felt about them-- a dubious “Trent” photo showing a wire implying a device for hanging a fake object was circulated. Slight problem: in the original, real Trent photo, no wire was present. Just recently, another hoax photo was presented by a blog showing a model-size image of the “Trent” saucer…another obvious hoax:
http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0308/hoaxing2.html

So guess who got the short end of the stick in all these cases? The witnesses.

Harassing phone calls, threats…think about what that would mean in your life: THREATS for coming forward, telling the truth.

Sensationalism can certainly be used to make money. However, we all need to focus on the crucial baseline fact: the presence of sensationalism in a public revelation may have nothing to do with the truth of what the witnesses report. Wedding sensationalism to a case for monetary gain does not mean the subsequent research is faulty, either.

Seems it’s impossible for some UFO researchers to rationally examine what happens in a heavily publicized case.

Is it really so tough to step back for a moment, and logically, rationally consider each element separately: witness, evidence, effect of the public exposure, background research, media portrayal?

We owe every case our best attention.

What’s more, we owe every witness who was brave enough to come forward the opportunity to present their experience with some baseline respect from us.

Are we that self-righteous that even ufologists who already know what it’s like to take a lot of heat from friends, family, and who rarely risk any kind of discussion on these matters in the workplace, or with the people who live next door, that they summarily dismiss either a good witness account or apparent physical evidence because someone somewhere --often not even the witness, but someone in the media upstream-- is poised to gain some kind of profit?

You can go out into the ufology blogosphere or chat among your fellow conference goers, and you will even hear things like IF HE BELIEVED IN IT HIMSELF, WHY DIDN’T HE PUT THE MONEY INTO GETTING WIDER DISTRIBUTION FOR THE VIDEO?

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t publicize or give decent exposure to your experience and evidence.

Here is a clip from the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWs7u0nU7yQ

We forget, too, not everyone can afford to lose a job like the Portage officers, like billionaire tech inventor forced to resign from the company he founded Joe Firmage…

We forget not everyone can afford to invest in consulting experts and pre-vetting evidence before public release. Our own huge international groups can hardly afford the testing of a fraction of such evidence that is available…from genetic testing to simple chemical analysis.

How can we blame individual witnesses --who try not to become partisan, or who are ignorant of our organizations-- for waiting to come forward until the substantial funding for professional public relations campaigns and the battery of laboratory tests has been secured?

I’ve got some ideas about how we can avoid going partisan, or loco, regardless of our basic ufology orientation. Are you ready to take the unpartisan pledge? Come back next Thursday for the challenge!

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Disclosure, Nick Pope Style

2008-05-30T09:33:00.004-05:00

“…and I’ll know my song well before I start singing” Bob Dylan

“British U.F.O. Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth” so shouted the NY Times article --which is the disclosure to the world-- according to British Intelligence officer, Nick Pope. Times article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/world/europe/26london.html?_r=1&ref=europe&oref=slogin

The UK Ministry of Defense has now begun to release “all” the documents it has on UFOs… and just in case you doubt it, we have good old Nick Pope to tell us we should believe them, even though they lied about what Nick Pope, his predecessors, and his department were doing for years.

Pretty sad isn’t it, how the British government, along with its “ex” UFO X Files government employee can convince us, after so many years of presenting lies, that now once and for all, we have the truth on UFOs in the UK. Like a child who has lied so many times, like an American President who shouts Weapons of Mass Destruction in all the wrong places, citizens on both sides of the pond have a big, bad case of Untruth Fatigue.

And if we are still that stupid, maybe we deserve what we get.

We also have the history of good UFO witnesses who get laughed at and dismissed by Government, capital G, on both sides of the Atlantic, for half a century.

Even now our community must constantly defend UFO witnesses --even, or especially those with impeccable science, engineering and military backgrounds-- whose stories hold true for decades…and still they’re called frauds. Even by some of our own.
What they’re really saying, these Professional Deny Guys, is UFOs are nothing, that Roswell or anything like it never happened… for instance, that the officer on duty that night who put his “hand on the craft” at Rendlesham that soon would take off silently was…oh, you fill in the blank. Or let the Nick Popes and the Deny Guys fill it in for you. It’s what they do best.

It is amazing that Nick Pope was here in the UFO community to champion the truth of these reports, even before he saw them.

But according to what Nick told me at a recent conference, he doesn’t believe there were any secrets on UFOs his department didn’t know about. He explained to me the way the British Government keeps secrets is different then the American government…well isn’t that special.

He has been saying publicly, since it was announced, when this batch of reports are released, there will be no more UK secrets left, as far as UFOs go.

But there comes a point when the government needs a watch dog to watch government.
How many times have UK and USA military-intelligence officials claimed they were not interested, only for us to find they were lying? How many UFO researchers find documents in the UK which were claimed by Pope’s team just years or months ago, to be non-existent?

Nick might counter, as he did, unbelievably but oh so personably, on Coast2Coast Radio recently, chatting charmingly with host George Knapp, in a downright jolly tone, as he assured listeners this time, the UK secret keepers want to get rid of it all and simply not be bothered. There had been too many FOIA-style requests, after all.

But there is the one item everyone should remember, especially if you believe UFOs were taken seriously by both the UK and USA governments, as I do: both governments have had 60+ years to sanitize the secret ET presence. More than half a century to hide, obfuscate, spin, and deny the most important, yet arguably, one of the easiest secrets to keep.

If anyone out there doubts how easy it is to ignore even solid evidence about UFOs, just ask the witnesses who try to be heard.

They will never disclouse... they will never admit to the World UFO's are Craft from somewhere else, they will never admit to this:
"Have You Sean The Saucers"

As for Nick Pope, he’s STILL a front man, whether he knows it or not. The UK government is home to some of the richest UFO reports in the world. If something of national defense nature occurred, when it came to UFOs, do you really think Nick Pope would know it? He claims he would, because the government has been honest.

These are direct quotes from the Times article:
“A few carried humanoid life forms, or so it seemed. A few materialized courtesy of the observers’ possibly having had a drink too many, as in the case of an unidentified flying light cluster witnessed loitering in the sky by the patrons of a pub in Kent.”

“Whatever they were, these phenomena reported to Britain’s Ministry of Defense over the years and made public this month were almost certainly not actual alien aircraft piloted by actual alien beings.”

“The government has been telling us the truth,” declared David Clarke, a senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, who has a side interest in U.F.O.’s. “There are a lot of weird things in the sky, and some of them we can’t explain, but there’s not a shred of evidence for a single alien visitation.”

I want to thank Nick Pope for proving once and for all it is all nonsense. Maybe I’ll just close down my blog because Pope says the truth is finally out there…But wait! Almost forgot: I’m from Brooklyn, and I’ve never bought a bridge yet. I don’t plan to start now.

As in the days of NICAP --which ended up debunked-- it wasn’t their enemies who destroyed them, it was their friends. So beware of the jolly, charming UK Ministry of Defense agents…especially when they claim they’re no longer hiding stuff, but then admit they might not have seen the really sensitive reports anyway. And especially, when they’re still on the government payroll. Nick Pope admitted on Coast2Coast that he had recommended the particular cases for release, and was still working on compiling those for release…over the next several years.

Joe Capp
UFO Media Matters
A Non-Commercial Blog

MUFON Investagation: Stephenville

2008-05-23T09:31:00.004-05:00

"Momma's in the basement mixing up some medicine I'm on the pavement thinking about the govenment" Bob Dylan

MUFON’s Journal published results of the organization’s findings on the detailed reports from 70 witnesses in Texas in its April 2008 issue. Bottom line: the vast majority of witnesses who reported to MUFON were regular people just wanting to get answers about what they saw. Of the many people who reported UFOs, 2 were found to be hoaxers. Amazing! You’d think with all the screams out there on You-Tube and debunker land, it’d be closer to 70.

There were almost as many UFO reports from the two Texas counties --Stephenville and Dublin-- in January and February in 2008 as in all of 2007, according to the only ones who are doing any data collection…our own good UFO organizations.

Notably, MUFON’s investigation found there were two “official” daylight sightings reporting a “large craft gray in color”, silent and moving at a high rate of speed. Many Texas reports were similar to those logged around the world, featuring large sequential blinking lights in the sky. Also notable about the Stephenville sightings is how many witnesses came forward with old reports. I guess they felt it was finally safe to do so. This factor of multiple, belated UFO reports --indicating many pre-existing UFO sightings from the region-- is in itself important, no matter how you slice it.

MUFON was not able to get written reports from the local Police Officers, just verbal descriptions. So what did these trained observers report? Three officers who gave accounts describe a large “craft”, gray in color with red strobe lights on the top. The two officers who were outside at the time reported the craft they observed was silent.

Of this investigation, 18 reports are unknown, with five still under investigation. They still have 100 continuing UFO sighting reports around the Dublin area. So the Great Stephenville UFO Incident of 2008 is not over because the press calls it over.

Not all the UFOs were of the same type. I like this one:
“At 6:50 AM on January 11, James Beatty had a close encounter…he saw bright white lights coming over a hill, on the opposite side of the dam…hugging the shore line…it was delta shaped…black and gray in color…approached to about 30 to 50 yards away… no bigger then a 1978 Thunderbird…rear was rectangle with three large round openings in its side. No apparent thrust nor fire…extended canopy running three quarters of the way down the fuselage. It was metallic as well. The bottom looked like it had panel lines, it had three non-blinking white lights under it. It made no sound at all.”

Just a reminder to the “ well… it’s only lights in the sky” bunch, CRAFT is the term three trained observers used to describe their daylight sighting.

For all you secret government test flight fanatics: why would the government be flying a huge, top-secret craft, near paranoid George’s ranch, in daylight?

And finally for all of you “why in the world would aliens fly a trillion miles to go to Texas?” theoreticians: it’s called bases. Try to think ahead!

David Coram Video. Seen on “Alien Hunters” episode Diagrams In The Sky, this one’s still an enigma. MUFON Journal reported Dr. Bruce Maccabee and others wanted to find the light source but “time restraints” kept them from going to the original spot. So until that is done, I can’t go with Maccabee’s conclusion, that what was captured was just a camera effect combined with atmospheric conditions and an out-of-focus star. David Coram’s grandchild, who was first to point out this strange light source, was drawn to it and asked his grandfather about the “lightening” in the sky. He saw that movement with the unaided eye.
DVD Agnelia Joiner (Fired Jounalist) "The Good The Bad & The Ugly About UFO Reporting. X Conference 2008"

So a follow up is what they deserve. I think “Alien Hunter” should do a follow up on Texas, too. After all, Stephenville was the biggest UFO phenomenon of the year, and there are more than 100 UFO sightings still being reported there. Also, it’s important to not let it the case get too cold. While the Alien Hunter crew is there, they could also do a follow-up, confirming, if that be the case, Maccabee’s conclusion by simply filming a star from the same place David Coram’s grandson pointed out what he was seeing.

Since the US Government’s not exactly forthcoming these days, CITIZEN INITIATIVE AND CAN DO is still looking like the smartest and most civilized response. Wouldn’t it be great if some other optics and video experts would join MUFON and volunteer some time? So…what are you doing next weekend?

MUFON needs people of all expertise levels to help analyze the enormous quantities of video and photos now being submitted. I heard it from good sources that MUFON is backed up for two years on the normal processing of multimedia submitted for examination. MUFON is a great organization and doing a fine job. Those hundred Texas witness reports are still waiting to be gathered and investigated. MUFON needs more skilled volunteers. How many will step forward?

Alien Hunters complements citizen organization efforts.
I’m happy “Alien Hunters” is on the air. The show allows access to scientific equipment that is many times beyond the frugal expense accounts of many of our citizen organizations.

Of course presenting the proper evidence is crucial in getting to the answers. But actually being there in the midst of a flap and catching something with the best equipment would be highly desirable. The next best thing is sending investigators quickly to do a thorough job. “Alien Hunters” gets a B+; with some work it can be a great show and help the larger effort validating the witnesses to these phenomenon and according witnesses their much deserved…and overdue respect. I don’t like the idea of offering money to witnesses for UFO video. The practice opens up a can of worms and does nothing to help the credibility of sightings or witnesses.

I still wonder how many people never reported what they saw.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters

Body Snatchers: Better as a Sci-Fi Film?

2008-05-15T16:23:00.001-05:00

Nick Redfern, in Body Snatchers In The Desert [Paraview Pocket Books, 2005] sure jumps through a lot of hoops to explain Roswell away:
“A Horton Brothers Flying wing supported by huge Japanese-designed balloons and containing disabled or genetically damaged Japanese who were used as human guinea pigs to provide data on the effects of radiation for use in the NEPA Program.”

Though Redfern bases some of his latest on them, I’d never bet on anonymous whistle blowers. Especially when they’re from the government.

If I went through every scenario disclosed by every anonymous whistle blower in the UFO researcher community, I’d go nuts. But maybe that’s the mission.

I accept documents when conclusive; I accept the testimony of dying military witnesses when they have nothing to gain. Especially when they confess to their relatives, as so many loyal career military did in the Roswell case.

Some whistle blowers lie. One way I think they lie is by exaggerating a real story which loosely may apply. Sometimes, that’s professional misinformation. To do this, they get a researcher like Nick…who, as they say, strains the gnat and swallows the camel. As did many UFO researchers who swallowed the MOGUL story.

Interesting to note how this researcher faction, who discount the MOGUL theory --choose to believe in the witness testimony when it differs from MOGUL, but not when it differs from Redfern’s Body Snatchers version -- suddenly question those witnesses’ memory. There have been a dozen “what really happened at Roswell” books that dismiss all the original boots-on-the-ground witnesses. When you get whistle blowers called “the Colonel” and the “the black Widow’, as Redfern did, you can’t expect anything like serious ufology. But maybe you’d like to option a remake of a classic Sci-Fi film?

Let’s break it down, Redfern’s BS scenario.

First: do these descriptions from Roswell witnesses --who were there-- sound like a Horton Flying Wing made of wood or metals from the ‘40s?

Now let’s hear it from the some of the cojones-sufficient-to-ID-themselves witnesses, instead of “the Colonel” and “Black Widow”.

Start with Jesse Marcell Jr.’s The Roswell Legacy [Paperback, New Page Books, Sept. 2008] on the wonder of the material…

”As we examined the debris and carefully handled it my dad’s excitement was almost palpable… to his family he was a pretty laid back guy taking everything in his stride... [an] intelligence officer on a base with the country’s most guarded secrets… I saw another side to him…It was a mixture of excitement and confusion suffused with a sense of wonder that one just doesn’t see in many grown men.”

And move on to several others who were there.

Counter Intelligence Officer Sergeant Bill Ricket:
“The site itself was generally flat terrain…also evident were sixty or so pieces of what appeared to be very thin aluminum scattered about’…he picked up a piece about 4 inches by 10 inches and placed it over his knee to try and bend it. He couldn’t …Ricket [said]…‘I had never seen a piece of metal so thin that I couldn’t bend it…the more I look at it the more I couldn’t imagine what it was.’”

Major Edwin Easley’s Deathbed confession:
After keeping silent for 45 years, when presented with a book on the UFO crash at Roswell, Easley exclaimed to his granddaughter: “Oh the creatures!”

Sgt. Homer Rowlett, 603 Air Engineering Squadron, who days before passing, told his family:
“Sent as part of a clean-up detail…[he] had seen the memory material…tin foil that kept it’s shape…I saw three people they had large heads and one was alive.”

Rowell Military Hospital administrator Wayne’s Secretary broke down sobbing and told her parents:
[Worried by all the additional personnel running around the hospital her boss,“Wayne”, took her by the arm and had her accompany him to a room and observe a number of bodies on gurneys…]
“‘My God! They are children!’ Then she realized that its body size was the only childlike quality. Their skin was grayest brown…But the heads, the heads were too large…and those large eyes… those eyes that wouldn’t shut…she had heard of all of the talk of a crashed spaceship…‘Why did he[Wayne, her boss] have to involve me?’ she pleaded in the end.”

Lt. Govenor Joseph Montoya, on July 7th, 1947 while at the Roswell base, made this unintentionally close observation:
“We don’t know what it is. There was a flying saucer…[Describing bodies]…big eyes with big eyes shaped like tear drops…mouth small, like a knife cut across a piece of wood and they had large heads…bald heads…they had four long thin fingers on each hand.”

Staff Sergeant Earl Fulford, Top Secret clearance, 603rd Engineering:
[Forced to “volunteer for clean-up duties”, he was bused to any area which had “obviously been policed before”]
“… I only picked up seven small silvery pieces all day… the largest of which was 3 by 4 inches. I looked like thin light aluminum that flex slightly when I picked it up, but once in the palm of your hands you could wad it up into a small ball…and it would immediately form its shape in a second or two.”

Black Cat Mac Magruder, decorated F16 Fighter Pilot, lying on his deathbed, told his daughter:
[During class at the prestigious War College, he was taken to Wright Field and observed a live creature from the Roswell craft]
“…under five feet tall. Human like but with longer arms, large eyes, and an oversized hairless head…a small slit for a mouth, no nose just two small orifices…Ears two small orifices…came from another planet.”

I would never try to discredit Nick Redfern’s research; in fact, his work is usually top notch. But that doesn’t mean the latest Redfern theory makes sense--either in the general context of the larger Roswell story, or in the real-life details-- against the multiple deathbed and end-of-life confessions of loyal military and military support staff, who were there.

BBC Documentary on Roswell Witnesses:

Now that there are a majority who believe UFOs are not ET, it’s that much easier for professional debunkers to do away with the truth. Now debunkers feel safe to take any theory or opinion that comes down the pike to discredit the Roswell ET explanation. But Redfern’s latest scenario automatically puts many of the military professionals and other good, honest witnesses into what I’ll call the stupid category. And I haven’t even included in this discussion the people in the town who actually handled the material from the crafts…like rancher Brazel’s family home, tossed two years after the incident, by military looking for more material from the crafts.

These people have also been ignored or attacked as being too stupid to know a metal with bizarre properties they personally handled was different from the tinfoil on a cigarette package. For me, denigrating these witnesses is unacceptable.

I admit Mr. Redfern tries to cover some of the other witness testimony, like bodies and security measures. But you can’t cherrypick testimony to build a theory. This is what the debunkers do to prove we’re all nuts.

All quotes are from the taped testimony reported in the book A Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up, by Schmitt and Cary [New Page Books, 2007].

Stanton Friedman’s take on the history, as well as other problems with explanations put forward by Nick Redfern in Body Snatchers is here:
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sfredfern1.html

Another famous Pilot at a UFO crash sight handles the same type of wreckage as Roswell 8 years later, described here:
http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32776&Itemid=61

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Budd Hopkins: A Call To Honesty

2008-05-08T15:54:00.007-05:00

Be honest with yourself. Are you a UFO skeptic, a true believer, or an enthusiast? Listen to the video and take a look at youself where do you fit?

Budd Hopkins is the researcher’s researcher. He’s not a perfect guy, not arrogant…just real. Hopkins even inspired a Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor to look at UFO abduction because of the quality of the hard data his research produced. When John Mack examined Budd Hopkins’s excellent research and then changed his views on UFO abductions, Hopkins showed us all --skeptics, true believers, and everybody else who bothers to pay attention-- the real power of good data.

So, thanks to the legacy of Budd Hopkins and Dr. John Mack, we can see how important it is to ask ourselves the toughest question of all: have UFO researchers and witnesses learned from past mistakes? Are the most educated and the most opinionated among us willing to look at ourselves and rethink what we mean by belief vs. truth and opinion vs. fact…and observation vs. conclusion?

We all claim to have an open mind, right? If you think yours is, give this clip a listen.
DVD: Budd Hopkins Skeptics & True believers. 2008 International UFO Congress:

Do you ever find yourself doing what I do, when something really bizarre, or outrageous surfaces in conversation or on your favorite website… simply checking in and asking yourself:
Could what I’m thinking here actually be what I’ve decided to believe
--rather what I’m likely to conclude from examining the available facts?
How do I decide what constitutes independent, verifiable data?
Who has the authority to establish --or demolish-- the testimony of direct witnesses?

Our beliefs are important, they define us. But what happens when we make it impossible for truth to even sneak up on us, because we’ve forgotten the art of being absolutely honest with ourselves --honest and aware enough to call a belief a belief, and not presume it’s an absolute truth?

Should we be surprised that the casual type of self-dishonesty we indulge in is used very effectively by others, and not in a good way? I suspect it’s used across the board --by us and against us-- when it comes to thinking about, researching, and even experiencing UFOs.

So I’d like to move just for a minute from belief about verifiable facts, to spirituality. The spiritual life without honest self-examination is what I call “getting high on God”, and I define that as a place where you may feel, safe and accepted, but it’s also a place were you can lose yourself. Some UFO witnesses and experiences look to us for help and the truth. Shouldn’t we provide that help based on the truth of what we know, and separate what we know from what we believe?

Most crucially, we must continue to ask this: Do we really know the entities of the abduction phenomenon are good?

The intelligence on the other side of this knows its own reasons.

We don’t have any real way of knowing if they, the representatives of that intelligence, lie and manipulate…we can only believe and hope they have good reasons for being here.

But that’s our hope, our belief. Not ground truth. Not intelligent conclusions based on decades of facts.

In an article in Fate Magazine [May 2008] about a famous African Healer who claims he was abducted, “Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and the Alien Agenda” author Louis Proud reports:

"Credo is recognized by many as one of the most distinguished African traditional healers of the 20th century…He is, in fact, the spiritual leader of the sanusis and sangomas of South Africa. …Credo claims to have been abducted by beings his people, the Zulus, call the mantindane. Even more surprising is the fact that these creatures look and act exactly like what we in the West call the “grays”…The late John E. Mack was among one of the first UFO researchers in the West to interview Credo…an expert [John Mack, Ed.] on the alien abduction phenomenon, found difficult not to take seriously. "

Listen to what Zulu elder Credo Mutwa claims about the grays:
“Some of these beings, says Credo, have covertly and profoundly influenced all human cultures and civilizations for millennia…As regards different types of alien beings, the mantindane are apparently the most important to Africans, who fear them greatly. The word mantindane, by the way, translates as “the tormentors.” Credo described these entities to Mack as troublesome and “parasitic,” claiming that they “instill superstition, sow discord, and may even cause disease.”

This Zulu spiritual leader describes ET behavior in a way that fits my conclusion that they are very intelligent and manipulate the human race from the shadows and, through displays and mythology. Others, of course, say ETs are wonderful and good.

Fate:
http://www.fatemag.com/issues/2000s/2008-05article2.html

In the final analysis we don’t know the real agenda behind the UFO abduction phenomenon, or behind any of the many other UFO phenomenon.

Not knowing--and admitting we don’t know-- can be a healthy position, especially when it’s is the truth.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

UFO Are Just Secret Weapons!

2008-04-30T12:55:00.026-05:00

Yea Sure......

"People talk about situations, read books, recite quotations, draw conclusions on the wall..." Bob Dylan

When anyone, who looks rather intelligent, dressed in all the right accouterments, has letters after his or her name, tries to tell you in a "I have all the data ready tone" "UFOs are just "Secret Weapons" pause....laugh, and asked that person... in which century?

Below I will present unique photos from the past. These photos I show below are presented here by permission, and with my thanks, to WENDELLE STEVENS.
I never recommend anything I don't really like. I really was fascinated by this two book set. There recounts of "Fatima", which include the first drawings by one of young girls, is fascinating. the sketches show what looks like a "being of light". The picture of the UFO at Fatima had me conjuring up my "Staging Theory. "

But Most of all I love the photos of UFO from around the world. You can find this great two book Set: " UFO Photograph's Around The Wold" Vol. One & Vol Two:
http://www.ufophotoarchives.org/
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The Photo's you will see below revel a story of the old and the new. This story of a world of regular people seeing UFO"s and taking photographs has been overlooked in our McDonald lifestyle. This was not a digital world at all, this was a world with 35mm, Polaroid and Instamatic's cameras,. A world of UFOs which still calls to us about truth beyond hoaxes and beyond any persone's discounting explanations.

This Photo I thought was interesting: I did some work on it in Photoshop:

The Two Photo's here were taken in Passiac N.Y.

Note the possible disturbance around each object; ("corona discharge")

Now for some comparisons from Alaska notice same disturbance.
Now compare this photo taken 1972 with one from a DVD clip I posted on "You Tube" under "jcappufo". Notice the back of the saucer especially and the a small bright light source.

65 year old photograph early 1990:

These are the almost identical to what I witnessed, with a friend, fly over an Atlantic City Beach in 1962. They ones we viewed were very close and their color was a deep copper type color.

This is our history, captured in time, a truth of experienced, of wonder and a reality few have witnessed The witnesses are the "majaority", those who did not want to tell their names, nor share their,stories or photo's. The photos speak for themselves, in a language we all know. The language of knowing... this story has never been really told right, and what a story it is, we will post more in the future of even photo'solders. If you have old staange family photos you wish to share send a copy to: ufomm@optonline.net
Thanks
Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matter
Non-Commercial Blog