Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
How Much Does the Government Know?
Here in the United States we can't get a straight answer from any of the top officials whom we expect would possess every shred of knowledge available on the subject of UFOs and their operators. At some points in history, certain figures such as the late Senator Barry Goldwater and Congressman Steven Schiff tried to shed some light on things by engaging those "in the know", only to be denied or deceived by the powers holding the cards. President Gerald Ford told us nothing new once he became president, though he had earlier pushed for information before he took up residence in the Whitehouse. The same occurred with President Jimmy Carter—once he took office he clammed up regarding the UFO phenomenon, though he was very vocal on the subject while running for the position of President of the United States. Even Senator John McCain, current presidential nominee called for more investigation into the UFO matter.
Being humans, our human nature tends to make us mistrust those who are in power when they obviously keep certain information from us—a lot of this is mistrust is well-deserved based on history. But then our imagination can get the best of us, and we fall prey to our own fears, paranoia, and then we are wide open to others who exploit our human nature and feed us downright lies or exaggerations regarding what certain people in power know but aren't telling us.
So, did President Eisenhower have a clandestine meeting with aliens at Edwards Air Force Base in 1954? Did our governments agree to allow aliens to abduct some of us in exchange for their technology? Were the aliens allowed to take up residence in an underground facility in Dulce, New Mexico? Well, it's all possible, but it's also very possible that these are only rumors or outright lies.
What if the only knowledge our government has of UFOs and those that pilot them is that 1) they exist, 2) they come and go in our atmosphere and airspace as they will, 3) our military pilots have had some disasters while chasing them (when the UFOs allow them to get close enough). and 4) that these vehicles sometimes crash and provide us with technological mysteries to unravel and try to put to our own uses?
In this day and age we would expect that if a new foreign government came into existence our representatives would hold meetings with them to establish diplomatic relations, and this would make national headlines in all the public papers and newscasts. True, a new country or government would be mundane and not disturbing in the same sense that a newly-found species of intelligent beings would, but would this not be standard diplomatic protocol? But what if this new foreign entity had capabilities and technology far surpassing anything the contemporary "superpowers" had, and they chose to come and go as they pleased within our country and didn't care to involve themselves in diplomacy or formal introductions of themselves? Such may be the case with the current lack of information coming from the world's governments now regarding extraterrestrial races that are likely visiting our planet and have for hundreds if not thousands of years.
It's obvious that our governments weren't formally acquainted with pilots of UFOs before the crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 based on the official reaction in the way the press was handled. First the army issued a statement that a crashed "flying disc" had been recovered from a ranch north of Roswell, then the statement was retracted and damage control was initiated to cover up what had been revealed, and now there have been several different official explanations for the incident over the last six decades. Had diplomatic relations or even hostile relations been established with extraterrestrials, no press conference or public statement would have been made at all, thereby showing the United States military's naivete and unfamiliarity with the subject of alien visitors. Had the executive branch of the government already been in contact with these visitors, the military would have already had orders not to publicize an extraordinary event such as the infamous Roswell incident whether the military heads were told any details of the relationship or not.
At this point, let's discuss the "Holy Grail" to most ufologists—official governmental disclosure of all or part of the knowledge held by our government regarding UFOs and alien visitation. Let's imagine a scenario where President Eisenhower did in fact establish diplomatic relations, agreements, arrangements, or formal pacts with an alien race at Edwards Air Force Base in the '50s which presumably would still be currently in effect in one form or another. Let's say he agreed to allow the aliens to abduct a certain number of humans and run experiments on them, or something equally as sinister. There is no way the government today could admit its knowledge of these things any more than it could admit to selling nuclear weapons to a known enemy of our country. This would cause tremendous public outcry and irreparable damage to he public's trust of its government even if it occurred half a century ago.
Now let's imagine a scenario where instead of the government establishing formal relations with the aliens, the government has never been approached and all its attempts at communication have been met with no response by the aliens as they flit around our skies, sometimes taunting our military pilots with close fly-bys or hovering over sensitive areas such as nuclear missile sites or the Whitehouse. The only information our government has on these mysterious visitors has come from crashed vehicles, radar, visual observation, and witness reports. While crashed vehicles would provide the most information about the visitors in this scenario, I doubt the captain would've left a "log" as we know it—in fact, even if the aliens have a written language there is no guarantee we could translate it. So basically, the mystery has grown along with the government's frustration because it can't make the aliens communicate their purpose for being here, and it can't make them do anything at all really. The government's efforts have been met with a "no respect" response—the same government who is supposed to protect its people from invasion can't even get a word out of the aliens as to what their intentions are. Now, what kind of disclosure can we expect? Far easier to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that UFOs don't exist—they're simply overactive imaginations, hallucinations, or misidentified mundane objects. Far easier to try to assure the public that there is nothing to the UFO phenomenon at all by commissioning scientific panels to mislead and deceive the public. Far easier to simply turn a blind eye rather than to admit to its people that our government knows aliens visit our airspace daily and they don't know why and there's nothing that can be done about it.
Which scenario is correct, if either? And will we ever know how much the government knows?
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Exploring the Deep
"CUDAHY, Wis. — The deep is legendary for inky darkness. William Beebe, the first person to eye the abyss, called it perpetual night.
The darkness is matched by the intense pressure. Four miles down, it amounts to nearly five tons per square inch. That is too much even for Alvin, the most famous of the world’s tiny submersibles, which can take a pilot and two scientists down to a maximum depth of 2.8 miles.
But a new submersible is being built here, and even the process of construction seems a rebuke to the darkness. The work lighted up a cavernous factory with fireworks on a recent visit. Hot reds and oranges burst into showers of spark and flame as blistering metal began to yield to the demands of the submersible’s design.
“Amazing,” Tom Furman, a senior engineer at Ladish Forging, said after a big press bore down on an 11-foot disk of hot metal, making the delicate manipulation look as easy as rearranging a gargantuan pat of butter.
The new vehicle is to replace Alvin, which was the first submersible to illuminate the rusting hulk of the Titanic and the first to carry scientists down to discover the bizarre ecosystems of tube worms and other strange creatures that thrive in icy darkness..."
Read the entire article from the New York Times here.
"...the first to carry scientists down to discover the bizarre ecosystems of tube worms and other strange creatures that thrive in icy darkness"—indeed. I wonder what else they might find. Possibly a city or base where USOs routinely come and go?
And doesn't it make more sense to build a much smaller one remotely controlled? Should be cheaper, have the ability to go deeper, and the risk of lives would be negated—one small crack at four miles would be the end of everything and everyone on board.
Numerous possibilities, and it's about time we get more acquainted with this planet we live on.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Bigfoot Body Claim is a Hoax
Imagine that. "If it seems too good to be true..."—you know the old adage.
I just got through listening to Sasquatch Detective Steve Kulls's statement on the live BlogTalkRadio program where Mr. Kulls broke the news that the recent claim of two Georgia men that they had found the body of a bigfoot is...well, bogus. Mr. Kulls was actually on the scene where the "body" was, reporting by telephone. He stated the head had a hollow place in it, the "hair" melted into a ball when burned (uncharacteristic of actual hair), and the foot was definitely made out of rubber.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two men who made the claim and held a press conference in Palo Alto, California on Friday, August 15, 2008, admitted to the fraud. These guys are going to have some fallout to deal with, and rightly so. They've also committed a crime, according to the program.
While not related even remotely to UFOs (probably), I felt the need to include this post. Once again, this sort of thing damages the credible reports of honest people just the same as if they'd hoaxed a UFO sighting or some sort of amazing UFO evidence. Sigh.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
ETH: When an Ordinary Acronym Won't Do
So some unexplained lights have been seen flying around our planet and some strange aircraft have been seen flying and crashed in various areas. How could a reasonable person make such an enormous leap to conclude some of these are from an intelligent civilization beyond the earth? Well, there are a few reasons, really—too many to cover here. And some of them are quite sound and logical.
Perhaps one of the strongest pieces of supporting evidence for the ETH is the time line of reported UFO events as compared to human flight ability at the same time. Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first successful, powered flight on December 17, 1903, however, according to some reports this wasn't even the first powered flight by mankind. But the flights observed in times significantly predating the Wright brothers have proved far more interesting to many subscribers to the ETH, especially when they involve intense lights, shapes that don't lend themselves to being aerodynamically sound, and speeds and maneuvers far greater than any airplane that would come till much later, if ever.
Though the modern era of the UFO phenomenon is often credited to Kenneth Arnold's sighting of 1947, there have been other UFO sightings that have substantially predated that historic day by over 3,000 years beginning with quite a spectacle in 1522 B.C. that the Egyptian pharoah Thutmose III observed and had recorded on papyrus. There are other very old reports as well, including a report of strange lights that Christopher Columbus saw on his journey to the new world that don't seem to be easily explained by natural phenomena. Much later, the Airship reports of the late 1800s also created quite a flap throughout parts of the United States. Also, Charles Fort wrote about several reports he'd read and compiled from the 1800s and early 1900s in The Book of the Damned. While it's hard to know the accuracy or truth of any of these reported sightings, it seems to go beyond mere coincidence that some of the reports record similar characteristics displayed by contemporary reports of UFOs, and it's doubtful to me, at least, that the witnesses from over a hundred years ago could dream up such characteristics as are commonly included in many UFO sighting reports today.
Another key piece of evidence supporting the extraterrestrial hypothesis is testimony of many witnesses who have described beings only slightly resembling humans. Through the diligence of a number of researchers such as Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randle, Don Schmitt, and others, we have some very good witness testimony of not only crash debris that reportedly didn't resemble anything made on earth (unless the Air Force's final version of its report on the Roswell incident is to be believed) but testimony of actual alien bodies recovered from the UFO crash that occurred on a ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947. While both debunkers and skeptics may state that the memories of the witnesses could be clouded after decades since the crash or their testimony could be lead by the interviewer, and that they could be exaggerating or lying for their own reasons, I find it hard to doubt and discredit every shred of corroborating testimony from so many witnesses including military personnel who were on active duty at the time. Deathbed confessions have been sworn out in affidavits by a number of witnesses who claimed alien bodies were involved in the Roswell incident. And while each piece of evidence has been attacked in some way by UFO debunkers, to me it boils down to this: when this many people talk, there must be something to it. While one witness claiming to see aliens wouldn't stand much chance of being believed by a reasonable person, the large number of witnesses who have come forward have made it exponentially more difficult to discredit the corroborated testimony.
While it's possible that everyone is lying but the Air Force, while various governments might be responsible for all strange lights and aircraft that have been seen within and without our planet's atmosphere since before the days of the Wright Brothers, while some believe "aliens" may be from another dimension or even another intelligent species that has come to live on our ocean floors and underground, it also makes sense that visitors from other planets similar to ours have been and probably continue to be here if we are to believe even one of the ancient odd reports of strange aerial vehicles or one of the many witnesses who have described alien bodies on a ranch in New Mexico and elsewhere. While I've never met or shaken hands with an ET, I highly suspect that they exist and have visited earth for some time.
If one believes The Big Bang Theory is responsible for creating the universe and consequently life on earth, one must also believe that life exists throughout this universe for the same reason it exists here. Likewise, those who believe God is the creator of the universe might also believe He placed living creatures in some of the other planets throughout the different galaxies if He chose to do so. Forget the vast distances of space that would take us eons to traverse to see this extraterrestrial life—we don't necessarily have the only horse and buggy in town, and there is plenty of technology we haven't yet mastered or discovered.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Should the Cat Stay in the Bag?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
UFO Crash in Needles, California
Alien craft? Test vehicle from Area 51? Meteor? Something entirely different? You be the judge...
George Knapp of KLAS TV is the premier investigative reporter of the strange, in my humble opinion.