UFOs: The “sneak” factor

What keeps science and media rather far from the UFO phenomenon is that the activity of UFOs/flying saucers has always been sneaky.

Sneaky may attract militaries, and some UFO devotees, the brave and/or naïve kind, but sneaky doesn’t attract scientists or media.

Science deals with quantum particles, which are not only sneaky but crazy. Moreover, quantum particles are theoretical and allegedly infinitesimally small, so they can do no harm to the unsuspecting.

Quarks can’t blind-side those who are investigating them. (Or, at least, they haven’t done so thus far.)

And science can play and has played with quantum particles, but only theoretically (mathematically) so fear of the sneakiness is hypothetical, or non-existent in the mind of scientists

However, UFOs are large and appear surreptitiously (and always have).

UFOs that are military prototypical aircraft are cloaked in secrecy, and sneakiness. That’s there essence.

UFOs that are hoaxes are intrinsically sneaky.

But real UFOs are sneaky in a calculating way, intelligently sneaky. And that scares away science and media. (Media doesn’t have the acumen to deal with sneaky; it eludes journalists, who only attack sneakiness after the fact, not head on.)

Ufologists, most of them anyway, are thick-headed so they don’t see UFOs as sneaky, just a phenomenon that is inscrutable.

Even the abduction phenomenon or quasi-hostile actions of UFOs don’t frighten ufologists.

This isn’t because ufologists are brave souls. Most aren’t. But ufologists are a little child-like, and “sneaky” is a behavior that doesn’t register with most UFO researchers; they are in such awe of the phenomenon that the aspects they should be scrutinizing are often (usually) overlooked.

Science. On the other hand, prefers to deal with phenomena that are overt, or abstract. This is safe, and scientists are nothing if not cautious.

But for those who are fearless when it comes to UFOs, and this because stupidity lacks commonsense awareness, the sneakiness of UFOs, aside from the military kind, may be grist for research.

Is the sneakiness of UFOs geared to an agenda, or stems from caution on the part of the UFO progenitors?

Do UFOs elude mankind and ufological measurement because they are fearful of human beings?

This seems unlikely, as UFOs have broached aircraft and humans aggressively, even abducting some human (supposedly) on occasion.

No, UFOs are sneaky for reasons yet to be discerned, and we suggest that UFO researchers, real researchers, try to determine why UFOs are sneaky.

This seems to be an avenue for investigation that the militaries of the world, especially those in The United States, have pursued diligently.

And since ufologists can’t get militaries to open up, and never will get them to, ufologists have to analyze the “sneak factor” on their own, where pay-dirt, about the phenomenon could happen.

Meanwhile, be careful when confronting a UFO. The confrontation might be the last thing you experience in this life….or not.

Metaphysical UFOs

The UFO phenomenon is being taking all over the place, especially into realms that smack of quantum theory.

(We’re guilty of a quantum evaluation ourselves.)

Once the UFO epithet replaced the term “flying saucers,” the phenomenon was opened to conjectures that have become more bizarre by the day.

Tangible objects that once dominated the unidentified flying scenario have been substituted by amorphous blobs of light and/or skimpy drones of a TinkerToy kind.



And now an article – one of many recently – in SEED magazine (June 2008, Page 50) presents the results of tests in Austria that seem to confirm reality is the result of observation.

We, Mac Tonnies, and others, have presented the hypothesis – hardly new – that reality may be chimera, created by someone of something, and we (humankind or each of us singularly) are a concoction from the mind of a master computer geek. (Some would call that geek God.)

The idea that UFOs are creations of the mind is not unique to ufology. Swiss psychologist Carl Jung posed the idea way back in 1958 in his work, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.



But many, if not most ufologists, such as Stanton Friedman and Richard Hall, think UFOs are flying saucers – physical, metal-oriented craft, and they have the weight of evidence in their favor – or they did.

UFOs of late have shown up as anything but tangible, touchable objects; they’ve appeared, as noted, in forms that belie anything concrete or firm.

This allows UFO theorizers to expand their hypotheses into areas once considered arcane, or metaphysical.

Does this do justice to the phenomenon? Perhaps.

But it also removes the possibility of actually getting proof of the UFO reality, which is the bugaboo that haunts the topic.

Ufologists keep trying to prove to “outsiders” that UFOs are real, when any commonsense view of sighting reports and legitimate photos/film/videos indicates that UFOs are indeed real – that is a given, or should be.



The question that should be, must be focused upon is “What are UFOs?”

This is where the door is opened to all kinds of crackpot ideas, along side some valid querying.

And thus the investigation or research into the UFO reality has become very muddied.

Fortunately a few UFO devotees – mostly outside the UFO mainstream – have taken the quackery in stride, ignoring it pretty much, and have begun to look at the phenomenon in unique ways, often scrapping the whole ball of UFO wax that has accreted over the past 60 years.

This new group of “ufologists” -- they eschew that title – can be found in links at the right of your monitor screen here.

Seek them out if you really want a more “scientific” view or approach to the UFO mystery.

And skip the party-going UFO conventioneers and UFO socialites. They’ll merely waste your time and divert you from a real scrutiny of UFOs.



They are named at our companion blog – UFO Provocateur(s).

Mike Heiser's Blog

Mike Heiser is PhD who deals with Semitic religions usually, but he also has an interest, surprisingly, in UFOs.

Check out his new blog:

http://www.michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions

SETI Zero / UFOs One

This statement appears on a SETI blog (http://setiradio.blogspot.com):

…we haven’t heard from ET (either via visits or via a signal)…

It’s part of an argument “in response to the article in MIT's Technology Review magazine by Nick Bostrom.”

A discussion has ensued from SETI proponents and others.

SETI is an interesting scientific endeavor, funded privately, hurting no one, and hoping to find other technological civilizations extant in the Universe.

We support SETI, but ufologists get rankled by one premise of the organization, and that’s the idea that ET (extraterrestrials) hasn’t visited the Earth.

SETI hasn’t received a signal from space – we discount the WOW signal – but it has only parsed a small part of galaxy and none of the Universe beyond, so the SETI search isn’t exactly a failure, so far.

But to deny that extraterrestrial visitations haven’t taken place is a statement of hubris, not scientific objectivity.

In the UFO field, there is, among all the possible explanations for the UFO phenomenon, Stanton Friedman’s alien space craft scenario.

(Yes, others posit ETs from outer space but Mr. Friedman is the face of the hypothesis for most UFO aficionados and everyone else.)

SETI hasn’t received a signal from an advanced (or any other kind of) civilization but it holds out hope for that to happen.

Ufologists have mountains of circumstantial and tangible evidence for UFOs, showing the things to be real.

We, and others, pose alternate possibilities for the origin of “flying saucers” and/or UFOs, and one of those alternate possibilities is that the phenomenon is primarily space craft from other worlds, other planets, and other civilizations.

Of all the explanations for UFOs, the alien space craft explanation is the most sensible when the reported sightings, landings, and perceived occupants are taken into account.

(That the sightings may be chimeras from other agencies, supernatural and otherwise, can be allowed, but visitations from other planets is the easiest explanation to swallow.)

SETI disallows the possibility, but ufologists have a lot going for them whereas SETI has nothing going for it, so far anyway.

So the condescending attitude of SETI devotees is really out of place and off-putting to an objective mind.

SETI should not be anathema to UFO confreres, but it is, and only because SETI is so smug.

While we give SETI props for its efforts, we join hands with the UFO community in eschewing the SETI stance about UFOs, even while we explore a slew of other explanations for the elusive enigma that is real, and sometimes touchable.

SETI would do well to try and score a real point. Ufologists have already done so.

The Amazing Roswell UFO Festival 2008

Miranda Evjen says Hi,

I work with the Amazing Roswell UFO Festival held every year in Roswell, NM. This year’s festival will be held from July 3-6, 2008. I thought your audience might be interested in knowing more about the festival. I’ve including some information about this year’s festivities below. If we can offer you any more information, art or logos, please let us know at media@ufofestivalroswell.com


Media Contact: Alexis Kerschner, Rick Johnson & Company (505) 266-7220, media@ufofestivalroswell.com

ROSWELL, N.M. The City of Roswell invites UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike to join in the celebration of one of the most debated incidents in history this July 3-6, 2008. The four-day event will feature guest speakers, authors, live entertainment, family-friendly activities and possibly an alien abduction.
The City is expecting more than 50,000 visitors during the festival and guests are encouraged to make travel arrangements early. Links to accommodations, an event schedule and more in depth information can be found at the new festival website

www.ufofestivalroswell.com.

In early July, 1947, a mysterious object crashed on a ranch 30 miles north of Roswell. The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a statement claiming to have recovered a crashed “flying disk.” An article ran on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record and the next day, RAAF changed its statement to say that the object was a weather balloon, not a flying disk as they previously reported. This revised statement sparked immediate controversy and has continued to be a topic of debate more than 60 years later.

During The Amazing Roswell UFO Festival, guests can visit alien attractions, attend lectures, book signings and help uncover the truth about one of the most infamous cover-ups in history. Media passes are available now. Contact Alexis Kerschner at media@ufofestivalroswell.com to get your passes. For more information about the festival, visit www.ufofestivalroswell.com

What is old is new again: UFO Magazines

We have hundreds of UFO magazines going back to 1947 (Fate et al.)…..

What’s interesting is that the magazines are fraught with interesting conjecture and photos, by persons long dead and many still involved with the UFO phenomenon.

It’s somewhat enlightening to see what stories and positions were once taken by writers such as Jerome Clark, Kevin Randle, and debunker James Oberg, among others.

What surprises, somewhat, is how imaginative the UFO articles were. Nothing like them appears in current magazines (the few that exist) or in the plethora of UFO blogs extant.

UFOs and flying saucers once excited writers and readers, whereas nowadays there is palpable malaise about UFOs, with feigned excitement taking the place of actual excitement in the good ol’ days.

John Keel appears, as do Wendelle Stevens, Timothy Beckley, Lloyd Mallan, Ray Fowler, Richard Hall, and even the great Donald Keyhoe, to name a few.

While we eschew seeking the UFO answer from past UFO episodes, we do think that a cursory glance at previous flying saucer tales and conjectures would be entertaining, and perhaps a spur to refreshing the UFO dialogue and investigation.

If you have need of or seek a particular flying saucer tale or writer from the past, let us know, and if we have the material, we’ll scan it for you.

The Missing UFOs

UFOs seem to have appeared to early man, as portrayed in cave paintings and other petroglyphs, and a UFO presence is palpable in Sumerian and Biblical accounts about 10,000 B.C.



Sporadic UFO accounts may be found in Biblical literature right up into the time of Jesus/Christ and for a period shortly thereafter.

Constantine’s UFO observation of 312 A.D. appears to be the last significant recorded sighting until the Nuremberg UFO “battle” of 1561.



UFOs remained rather quiescent until about 1890; that is, nothing blatantly unidentified is reported for the lacunae between 312 and 1561 and 1561 until 1890.

Our concern here is the dearth of UFO-like accounts in psychiatric circles for the period between 1890 and 1963, when psychoanalysts and other practitioners of the mental arts, including Freud and Jung, among others, were treating patients for hallucinations and perception anomalies, even dreams where one would think a few abduction-like anecdotes would have surfaced.



But no persons seeking psychiatric help recounts a UFO experience or anything resembling an abduction event.

Scouring the extant psychological literature for the period mentioned, we found no references, not one, that resembles the early UFO accounts in the Bible and none mimic the classic accounts from the modern era of UFOs.

It wasn’t until Betty and Barney Hill’s scenario was outed by their psychiatrist, and taken up as a template by hypnotists and pseudo-psychologists thereafter that UFOs got the on-the-couch treatment.



UFOs were not visible or recorded for those long periods we cite above, but during the heyday of psychoanalysis, 1890 to the early 1960s, flying saucers were prominent in he public/media mind.

Yet, no one under treatment for mental aberrations or emotional problems presented flying disks or UFOs as the progenitor of their plight.

After the Hill episode, however, one can a raft of UFO accounts that seem ideal for psychiatric scrutiny, many brought forth by amateur and professional hypnotists, seriously and haphazardly.

Where were UFOs during the open-spaces from during the Dark Ages and after the Renaissance?



And where were UFOs in the psychiatric arena when they were prominent is the public psyche, especially after 1947?

Something doesn’t add up. But it never does where UFOs are concerned.

That’s one reason why science and/or media won’t deal with UFOs seriously.

UFOs are tangible quanta

We won’t persist in the quantum aspects of UFOs, which we (and others) have done in recent months, but let us try to make a (minor?) point…..

UFOs operate as if they are quantum artifacts. And we’ve enumerated that aspect of UFOs in postings below, as has Bruce Duensing at his blogs (Intangible Materiality and UFO Paradigm Probe).

UFOs act like quarks; that is, they mimic the names arbitrarily ascribed to quarks by physicists: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom.

(You can find more about quarks and, of course, quantum by Googling the terms.)

UFOs, as we’ve indicated before, are macro-manifestations of quantum particles, not metaphorically or figuratively but in actuality.

They can be studied, scientifically, as such, which would eliminate the defensiveness (and foolishness) that permeates UFO “research” which we discuss in our previous posts here and elsewhere.

This also goes to the heart of our desire to see UFOs renamed, or re-invented as Alien Worlds Publisher/Editor Stuart Miller suggests.

Those who see UFOs as extraterrestrial craft won’t go along with this, nor will those who think UFOs are hoaxes, hallucinations, misidentified military aircraft, meteorological phenomena, or God’s angels.

But those who really want to find out exactly what UFOs are might consider a paradigm shift regarding the mysterious intruders, and work to bring about brand new investigation and methodologies to the UFO table.

We’re trying to do that with our physics/philosophy consortium, The Einstein Fellowship. And we think others in the UFO community, not locked into old-think about UFOs, might do something along the same lines.

That is, if they can muster some open-minded and objective persons who haven’t been liquored-up by flying saucers, and addicted to the merry mayhem that UFOs often generate.

That’s the hard part: scrapping the UFO accretions of many years and starting anew.

But it can be done, if UFO-interested persons set their minds to it…..

It’s time to stop calling them UFOs

After the term “flying saucers” was ridiculed out of existence, UFOs became the epithet for the mysterious phenomenon (or phenomena) that various peoples keep observing overhead and sometimes on the ground.

Unfortunately for aficionados of the enigma, the UFO sobriquet has also evolved into a term representing foolishness (or worse).

Science and media, even much of the public sector, skews up their eyes and minds when UFOs enter the overt arena.

Getting past the laugh-factor is a hurdle that can’t be overcome; it’s too ingrained as a derisive element of the UFO conundrum, maybe even the essential element, to allow serious discussion of the things.

There are many reasons why this happened, starting with the military debunking of the 1940s and exacerbated by the contractee movement of the 1950s.

Media didn’t help, as newspaper stories and television accounts made light of sightings and the people involved in those sightings.

Media likes a good joke, and flying saucers and/or UFOs were (and are) grist for the lame attempt of journalistic efforts to appear funny, something reporters and editors try to foster to assuage the public’s disdain for media aloofness and condescending attitudes.

Science and scientists generally won’t touch the UFO debate with ten-foot poles. Science won’t even address the topic jocularly. UFOs are anathema in scientific circles.

But the phenomenon deserves serious scrutiny and investigation.

UFOs have more substance than quantum particles or black holes, and are even more intriguing in practical ways.

Science fools around with string theory but can’t tackle UFO theory? That’s not being scientific, just ostrich head-in-the-sand behavior.

Ufologists – a mantle just as tainted as UFOs – are at fault here too. Those UFO mavens have brought down opprobrium upon themselves and the phenomenon both.

By cavalier investigations and acceptance of loony accounts by loony people seeking publicity and a modicum of fame, ufologists muddied the very waters they were supposed to make or keep clear.

But that’s all water under the bridge. What should happen now?

UFOs as a term for the ongoing, but greatly diminished phenomenon, has to be scrapped, and replaced by a new terminology, and a new, more rigorous scrutiny, by persons who have no distinct connection with the whole UFO history.

This means that the Renses, the Clarks, the Friedmans, the Randalls, the Lazars, the Halls, et al. and the repository of UFO history have to be discarded and the phenomenon looked at anew, with new people, and new paradigms.

We’ve written about erasing the UFO past (in our tabula rasa post here), but that won’t happen so long as the current members of the UFO community remain intact and in charge of the UFO discussion.

But, perhaps, we can get the Tonnies, the Redferns, the Bishops, the Millers, and that “objective” ilk to restrain themselves when they take on “UFOs” in their colloquies with other devotees of the phenomenon.

Mac Tonnies has already started dialogues that stray away from UFOs as such, but he’s in a definite minority, and shunned by the UFO old-guard who need UFOs as their mantra because of the time and effort they’ve expended on UFOs, the term and accoutrements to it that they’ve tried to capitalize on, some to a greater extent than others, but all with an investment in the term UFOs that can’t be easily dismissed.

Nonetheless, if the phenomenon is to be resolved or explained, it can only be so by a fresh start, and a whole new group of persons, with new thought and new insights.

And that new group can’t be saddled with the badgered term “UFO.”

(The phrase "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" is too wordy for a sound-byte and too complex for the mental faculties of the public at large, or media. So that replacement doesn't work.)

As Alien Worlds magazine Publisher/Editor Stuart Miller has it, UFOs need to be reinvented.

He’s right, and the study of UFOs concomitantly.

We’ll address the issue further upcoming, and will suggest new terminologies for the besmirched mystery, even though even we will have to rework our blog titles and our outlook on those things that intrude now and then, causing minor uproars amongst persons whose curiosity hasn’t been sated thus far by anything or anyone who presumes to know something about UFOs….er, we mean…..ah….um…

The Life and Death of UFOs

Oswald Spengler, in his book The Decline of the West (and other tomes) posited that city-states (countries, nations, empires, et cetera) have a “biological” existence; that is, they are born, live, and die much like human beings and other flora and fauna.



This is, we conjecture, what has happened and is happening to UFOs (flying saucers and the strange aerial phenomena that have been reported by many observers).

Early UFOs appeared in ancient skies as chariots, shields, and sun-like or comet-like visages.



When they showed up near modern times, they did so as air-ships, dirigible-like flying vehicles.



They had matured from “hardware” and meteorological phenomena to actual craft, operated by beings or as self-propelled entities.

In the late 1940s and 1950s, they became adolescent, and appeared with substantial bearing and activity: they even inter-acted, foolishly, with humankind.



In the 1960s and 1970s they formed gangs and, by abductions and other intrusions (over head), terrorized humanity oftentimes.



In the 1980s they started to mellow, and their activity became benign and non-confrontational pretty much.



In the 1990s, up to our time (2008), they have been on the wane, with occasional spurts of senile activity, as they start their descent into death, which should occur any time now.



We may be even be seeing the “ghosts” or spirits of UFOs, as they have perhaps already died in reality, as they have in the minds of many around the globe.



(Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire also acts as a precursor to the UFO phenomenon, and not just metaphorically.)

Not One UFO Explanation – Not One!

A number of UFO buffs have listed the best UFO sightings that prove the phenomenon is real.

Sure, UFOs are real. That’s not the question.

The question is “What are they?”

Stuart Miller [Alien Worlds magazine] likes Paul Kimball’s top ten UFO sightings in Kimball’s documentary, Best Evidence.



Mr. Kimball presents some very interesting cases, and leaves out some even more interesting cases, such as the Coyne/National Guard helicopter event of 1973 in Ohio.

The Kimball listing, along with others – even our own here at this blog – provide some intriguing UFO events, but none – including our own – provide anything close to an answer of what UFOs are, from whence they derive, or what is their essence.

After 60 years plus of scrutiny by UFO aficionados, some seriously investigating the sightings and/or supposed landings, not one person has solved the UFO mystery; not one UFO case provides bona fides for the phenomenon.



There is conjecture all over the place, and here too, at this blog.

There has been much conjecture about UFOs in the modern era, and almost as much for UFOs in previous eras, going all the way back to pre-literate ages.

Yet there has been no definitive answer to what some UFOs are.

Yes, some UFO events have been determined, such as the Gulf Breeze, Florida sightings (false), The Mantell pursuit (a Skyhook balloon), Roswell (an atomic bomb/balloon experiment), the Billy Meier photos (hoaxes), the 1964 Socorro landing (a Lunar Module test), the Phoenix Lights (military flares and a prototypical aircraft), the Villas Boas affair (CIA abduction), and so on.



But others are without resolution, and intriguing indeed: The Coyne confrontation (above), the 1948 North Dakota/Gorman dogfight, Shag Harbor, the Tremonton, Utah crafts (filmed), the Ann Arbor/Hillsdale sightings of 1966 (misrepresented as “swamp gas”), the 1561 Nuremberg UFO battle(s) – one of Kimball’s “best” also, and so on.



But the seemingly authentic UFO events and sightings are not explained, and remain at the core of the mystery, elusive as ever.

Listing UFO sightings doesn’t do anything to determine what UFOs are.

The listing is a kind of treading-water thing, to maintain some interest in the phenomenon, which would otherwise go the way of séance hoo-doo or the Loch Ness Monster fad.



UFOs keep popping up, and ufologists keep their avocation alive by cogitating upon them.

But no explanation is forthcoming, nor is one expected.

UFOs, like the existence of God, appears to be a matter for mental gymnastics only, and is forever destined to elude human understanding.

But for those with nothing better to do, UFOs will remain an existential raison d’etre, more or less.

UFOs and Wal-Mart

Something that ufologists seem to ignore about UFOs is how they re-supply; that is, how do they replenish their energy sources, food stuffs, and other exigencies of space or inter-dimensional travel?

If there are as many UFOs sighted as reported, just from where do they get their sustenance?

Even if UFOs are robot-piloted, they’d need to have some place from which to re-fuel or re-energize.

And if they are “manned” by living species, how do they eat or get their food and other things like medicine and supplies?

Are there motherships someplace in the nearby ether that provides UFOs and their crews with all the needs that crop up?

The lack of any palatable answer gives a bit of credence to Mac Tonnies idea that UFOs are a concomitant Earth species, unknown to us humans pretty much but having access to Earth’s resources.

That aside, if UFOs are real, and they seem to be, why don’t these craft and their occupants need a recurring boost of travel-fuel or energy, and why don’t they need to have food on a regular basis, or if they do, where do they get it from?

(Yes, the Snippy and/or cattle mutilations may account for some ingestions, but the so-called armadas of flying saucers cried out for a larger buffet than what those animal dissections allow.)

UFOs can’t be flitting all over he place without a re-supply camp or site, if one considers how may of these things are seen and have been for so many years now.

Species have to eat or re-fuel, and their ships would need to re-fueling too, unless the things are a chimera or quantum unreality as Bruce Duensing suggests.

At any rate, we don’t see how all the UFOs that are reported and have been reported can exist without an overt or palpable source for the things that any space-travelers or worm-hole travelers would need, unless they’ve evolved into self-sustaining beings or entities, and have made their vehicles to be likewise.

But then, of course, there could be a Wal-Mart near Saturn.

Anything seems possible in the UFO universe.

UFOs and a Tabula Rasa

It’s time to scrap everything that has been found out about UFOs, historically and accumulatively since the very first sightings – those in the religious texts (including the Indian epics) and everything since – Roswell, Lakenheath, the Hills episode, Socorro, Tehran, Phoenix, O’Hare, Stephenville….everything.

Ufologists should start from scratch, eliminating all the detritus that has encrusted the flying saucer/UFO mystery over the past sixty years, and begin fresh, new investigations of sightings extant.

Let the dead bury the dead, as the adage goes.

This isn’t just a plea for dumping UFO bilge overboard, but a suggestion that can take the enigma into a new arena of thought and research.

After all, the massive material gathered by many over the recent past has provided nothing of value, not a scintilla of useful information or data that comes close to solving the UFO riddle.

Surely this will upset the hoarders of arcane UFO anecdotes and fanciful accounts of flying saucer sightings. (They wallow in the plethora of irrelevant materials that make up the UFO literature.)

But a blank slate might just be what science and real UFO investigators need to get a real sense of what’s going on in the UFO pantheon.

The past can’t even be prologue. The phenomenon requires a clean slate upon which those who are interested in the anomalous things can scribble new thoughts about the mystery without being encumbered by all the nonsense that UFOs have acquired over the years.

This will take a strict discipline, and withdrawal symptoms shall affect many who now thrive on the glow and afterglow of previous UFO sightings.

Starting a new edifice is always daunting, and deep-sixing the UFO past will put many out of business, those who’ve invested time, energy, and materials they sell to each other and the gullible public.

But it has to be done, for the sake of a new UFO science and the desire to legitimate the phenomenon to newbies and scientists who scoff at the foolishness that UFOs have produced among immature, non-intellectual types who’ve besmirched the phenomenon by their shallow and/or inept research.

Let the blackboard be erased….

The UFO Entities

While there have been a plethora of descriptions of extraterrestrial visitors debarking from UFOs over the years, a lot of them have done so without apparatuses needed to breathe Earth’s air.

Abductees (experiencers), especially, indicate the “beings” taking them hostage are without extra gear, au natural apparently.



The creatures seem acclimated to the Earth’s atmosphere.

This either indicates that the “aliens” come from places with the same chemical make-up as Earth, or are from Earth itself (as the Tonnie’s hypothesis says), or the recounted visitations are hallucinations or bogus.

UFOs are real, of course, many stemming from misinterpreted military craft right here on Earth.

Some are psychologically or physiologically induced.



Some may even be craft from Outer or Inner Space.

But the UFO beings are another thing altogether. Seen coming out of UFOs, or sneaking into bedrooms and cars to kidnap human beings, those entities often do so with no adverse affects, during their sojourns of afterward, as H. G. Wells stipulated in War of the Worlds, where the intruders’ immune systems were not prepared for Earth’s germs.



(If alien visitors were affected, or had been, by Earths’ microbes, they wouldn’t keep showing up in the numbers reported.)

And wouldn’t some alien force from other planets (or dimensions) bring with them some kind of illness or disease foreign to Earth’s inhabitants? Maybe they have. (AIDS?)



UFO investigators haven’t done much with what we’ve present here, but they haven’t done much with anything ufological, since the UFO mystery goes on unabated, and seems destined to do so for a while, maybe never to be resolved.

Meanwhile, we’ll see if anyone can capture a UFO visitor, physically or by camera. But we’re not holding our collective breaths.

The UFO Indifference

One factor that eliminates the Jacques Vallee and Mac Tonnies hypotheses that there might be co-inhabitants of the Earth who live in an isolated plane of existence or underwater as a full-borne civilization that interacts with human beings via UFOs, paranormal manifestations, et cetera is the non-interference in Earth affairs.

That is, the UFOnaughts or other-dimensional beings – the co-inhabitants – have not interfered and do not interfere, directly, overtly, or meaningfully, in Earth’s activities: warfare, pogroms, genocides, natural disasters, migrations, or anything of consequence.



And if there were co-inhabitants – subliminal or otherwise – evolutionary aspects, emotional and psychological more than physical, would force these entities to eventually become affected by the emotional elements that make up mankind.

No entities, imperceptible or sub rosa, could escape the influence of the beings that share the landscapes of Earth with these invisible residents as Ivan Sanderson put it.

Alien beings from extraterrestrial worlds could, possibly, be devoid of feeling, and that corresponds to that happens when UFOs interact with humans, especially in the abduction scenarios.

These entities are without compassion or empathy, if witness accounts have any veracity at all.

But co-inhabitants, if they’ve been interacting with humankind for the millennia that Vallee, Tonnies, and a few others suggest, would have, by evolutionary parameters, adopted or been affected in some significant way by the psychological machinations of humans.

This evolutionary effect is outlined in Lecomte de Noüy’s book, Human Destiny.

But nowhere is there evidence, of a credible kind, that UFOs or the entities that pilot them interact with humans sympathetically; quite the contrary.

This mitigates against the crypto-civilization thesis.

And, in some obtuse way, it augments the ET thesis, if one is inclined in that direction as an explanation for the UFO/flying saucer phenomenon.



Bruce Duensing has a blog, like Tonnies, devoted to the idea that human beings have “brothers and sisters” of a different nature, who share this planet, and have since time immemorial.

It just doesn’t work that way if Darwin, Teilhard de Chardin, and de Noüy are right, and the fact of non-interference seems to indicate that they are quite correct.

The aloofness, cold, indifferent interaction by UFOs and their beings (if any) should be a cause for paleo-psychological investigation, and the continuing colloquies about a shared civilization or group of beings (or things) that move about without feeling or empathy for the race that overtly inhabits this planet should be seriously reconsidered.

Is there a funny side to UFOs?

We don’t think so.

Consider every sighting or UFO event, even those that are iffy….

Abductions are serious and painful, physically and psychologically, no matter whether they are real or not.

The Maury Island sighting was disastrous, as was the Mantell episode.

Nothing good has come from the Roswell debacle.

Radiation burns and illnesses have afflicted some UFO observers.

Close encounters have not been jovial by a long shot.

Pilot observations and military contact with UFOs, here in the States and abroad, have not proven to be hilarious.

Persons have lost their jobs when they’ve reported flying saucer encounters, and some have committed suicide when they’ve become too involved with UFOs.

(Some may even have been murdered to keep what they knew from the light of day.)

The Hills didn’t have a fun-time when they had their UFO encounter, and ridicule has followed many who’ve had the temerity to report a UFO sighting.

We know that some in the UFO community think UFOs are grist for humor (or attempts at such), even going so far as to provide silly awards and encomiums for those besotted by the phenomenon.

Think of James McDonald, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, M.K. Jessup, John Mack, et alia and you won’t find a rib-tickler in any of their stories.

Even if UFOs are not a military or security threat to the United States or any other country on the Earth, they still do not provoke laughter among cognoscenti.

Only the demented would make light of UFOs…

UFOs: The Sino-Russian Threat

The argument that UFOs couldn’t be constructions (aircraft) of the United States military, or else they would have been used in warfare situations extant, is bogus.

The United States military establishments have been holding back their most advanced weaponry, including fighter-bomber aircraft, for the eventual and inevitable war between the United States and China/Russia, countries that will form (and have already agreed to) an alliance against the United States of America.

[From Answers.com:

A strategic alliance

In 2001, the close relations between the two countries were formalized with the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, a twenty-year strategic, economic, and controversially, (arguably) an implicit military treaty. A month before the treaty was signed, the two countries joined with junior partners Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The PRC is currently Russia's largest customer of imports needed to modernize the People's Liberation Army, and the foremost benefactor of the under construction Russian Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.]

The aircraft that is held in abeyance for this war, under the most severe Top Secret parameters, are often spotted, during test flights, as UFOs.



Does this preclude extraterrestrial visitations seen as UFOs? Not necessarily, if historic or prehistoric representations and account are valid.

But the idea of a vast armada of UFOs, circling the Earth, is unreasonable, even if one posits a base nearby (such as the back-side of the Moon or one on a moon of a nearby planet).

The fleet of UFOs needed to account for all the sightings that are reported, let alone those that are not, would indicate an alien presence that is tantamount to a de facto occupation of this planet already.

That no evidence of a purposeful occupation has taken place removes the ET hypothesis for the UFO phenomenon, even if one puts forth a benign observational exploration by alien visitors to this planet.

There are just too many sightings to provide credence to an extraterrestrial presence of a significant kind.

UFOs are a combination of many things, just as the Air Force predicated in its Blue Book files, from weather phenomena to hoaxes to misidentified aircraft – the secret military aircraft we allow for many UFO reports.



The Air Force had it exactly right: of the 12618 sightings attributed to flying saucers or UFOs for the Blue Book period [1947-1969], only about 700 remained unexplained, and those numbers can be used to indicate what ratio of UFOs seen currently are actually unexplained phenomenon (or phenomena).

Extricating hoaxes, misidentified aircraft, weird meteorological phenomena, et cetera, from all the sightings supposedly being reported to ufological organizations and media will provide a core or residue of observations what should get attention – serious attention – from UFO investigators and/or science.

And discovering the secret flying machines of the U.S. militaries, for the oncoming Sino-Russian conflict, should prove interesting all by itself…even more so, perhaps, than the UFO conjectures that have yet to provide anything worthwhile.

Different UFO Entities?

If UFOs are tangible vehicles, from an extraterrestrial source or sources (and that “if” is rather large in some quarters), how does one explain the various entity configurations that have appeared with them (UFOs) over the years?

That is, why do diverse entities show up in various, separate periods of time?

For instance, early accounts of the gods who arrived in space ships (or vehicles), except for the fish-god Oannes of the Sumerians, were human-like individuals, as is the case with the angels or messengers that appear in Hebrew Bible accounts.



While after that early time there is a general lacuna of UFO accounts where any entity is seen or experienced at all, in the late 1890s air-ships showed up in America that contained human-like beings who spoke English or definable dialects (German, for one).



The major spate of UFO sightings in which entities are supposedly observed came in the late 1940s and early 1950s when beautiful human-like creatures – like those from the Biblical era – made appearances (such as Adamski’s Orthon and Truman Bethurum’s Aura Rhanes).



But as the 1950s progressed, other creatures appeared, weird dwarfish beings and a clot of other entities with strange, non-human features.



Then in 1961 (a bit later actually), the Barney and Betty Hill creatures surfaced, the so-called “grays” that have become the fixture for UFO creatures.



A few other creatures surfaced in the 1970s, such as the Pascagoula beings that Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker encountered.




But the 1980s, until today, have produced little or no UFO entities; none that have captured the public interest anyway.

What does this tell us about UFOs and/or those beings which supposedly pilot them?

And what does the normal size of UFO entities tell us?

As you know, no gigantic or particularly diminutive (very, very small) creatures have been spotted or noted exiting or entering UFOs.

Giants were mentioned in the early Hebrew Biblical texts, and giants show up in Greek myths, but most accounts of the gods (Egyptian, Norse, Indian, et cetera) do not indicate that visitors from the skies – whether gods, demons, or alien beings – are considerably abnormal in physiognomy or stature.



Most gods were humanistic in kind, even when they sported animal features or disguises.



And UFOs themselves are not particularly abnormal in size or performance from what physical laws allow; even the huge motherships that have been reported are not beyond reasonable size for aircraft. (Dirigibles approximate them.)



Then what about the dearth of female entities?

Inside the Egyptian, Indian, and Greek pantheon of gods and ancient literature there are few goddesses such as Lilith in the Hebrew Bible, but female gods are few, compared to male gods, who predominate.



And in ufology only the 1950s contactee obsession with females and the Villas Boas case indicate that women were once part of the UFO phenomenon.



Most UFO reports lack any singular notice of women entities as part and parcel of extraterrestrial visitations.

Some abductee stories contain alien female aspects, but the abduction phenomenon is fraught with too many irrational elements to make the female presence within them credible.



There are drawings of what UFO observers have reported about entities they confronted or saw, but no forensic study of those observations is extant.



A study of these diverse UFO entities and the feminine lack should be grist for investigators, either the ET-believers or the crypto-human kind.

A serious analysis might go far in determining just what the UFO enigma consists of or means.

No internecine UFOs?

If the diversity of UFOs indicates a multiple alien or extraterrestrial presence here, why is there no apparent conflict between the visiting races?

There are too many different UFO configurations and humanoid-like pilots to allow that one culture is represented by the phenomenon, unless the culture mimics Earth, and doesn’t actually come from afar but, rather, is an intrusion from our past or future.

And if the phenomenon represents an Earthian origin (past or future), wouldn’t the phenomenon’s inhabitants be as confrontational amongst each other as countries here have been and still are?



One might suggest that the few alleged flying saucer crashes reported over the years (Roswell among them) were the result of “warfare” between the saucers, rather than a technical malfunction or bizarre accident.

But no current reports show a confrontational demeanor by UFOs.

That wasn’t the case years ago, it seems, as the Nuremberg UFO “battle” of 1561 indicated.



Did one alien race conquer all the rest, or has there been a peace treaty worked out since the conflicts of 1947?

Or are UFOs merely a phenomenon reflecting the idiosyncratic projections of humankind as Jung and a few others have suggested?

The UFO Universe

UFOs only impact a small part of the human race; that is, only a few human beings, relatively speaking, are interested in UFOs or flying saucers.

But Google UFO or flying saucer and you’ll find a plethora of web-sites and blogs where the main theme concerns the phenomenon.

For instance, Frank Warren’s blog – http://frankwarren.blogspot.com -- is the Sam’s Club or Costco of ufology.

Mr. Warren’s blog is replete with UFO information, all kinds, in vast quantity and quality.

(It’s one of our favorite UFO hang-outs)

But Mr. Warren’s blog isn’t the only super-club of ufology. There are others just as chock full of UFO information, and we have some listed among our links.

And this is the problem. The UFO mystery is without focus, generally.

Science specializes. Technology specializes. Medicine specializes. Music, art, literature specialize.

Persons interested in the above categories determine what area of expertise they wish to pursue and they have at it.

In ufology, everyone – well, almost everyone – want to sink there teeth into the UFO buffet. No one wants to snack or partake of one foodstuff; it’s all or nothing.

This won’t resolve the UFO enigma certainly.

UFOs are diverse, maybe consisting of several kinds of things: real objects from alien worlds, machines or phenomena from the past or future, an unusual meteorological phenomenon, holographic images from a source or sources unknown, et cetera.

There are common factors or a common factor within the UFO panoply. But no one has the will or discipline to ferret out the common factor(s).

Until ufologists – or at least some of them – settle down to seek the elements within one aspect of the UFO phenomenon, the field of ufology will remain amorphous and irrelevant, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Edward U. Condon wasn't hypocritical; he was a communist sympathizer

A blogger who doesn't know the history of Edward U. Condon posts that he (Condon) was a hypocrite.

There's much more to the story:

The Condon Affair

A Stephenville sighting identified by Andrew Sweeney

I've identified what Angelia Joiner reported Mike Zimmerman saw in Stephenville. It was the constellation Corvus.

According to Angelia's report, Mike said he saw three lights: two white lights grouped closer together and higher, and the third one, a reddish orange color, closer to the horizon. Mike also said his compass indicated 115 degrees.

If you generate a sky map (e.g. via Your Sky) for Stephenville, Texas for the date and time in Mike's story, you'll see just what Mike's described. At azimuth 115 degrees, two blue-white stars (Gienah and Algorab, or Gamma and Delta Corvi) lie near each other, and below them, nearer the horizon, lies a bright yellow star (Kraz a.k.a. Beta Corvi).

These three stars constitute the "sail" of the constellation Corvus. The pulsating beams of light which Mike reported were the scintillations of the stars, which always appear much more pronounced when looking at stars nearer the horizon than when looking straight up.

I'm corresponding with Angelia Joiner about what I've found.

Andrew Sweeney

Addendum:

I've attached a copy of the horizon view from Your Sky. (Technical data: View toward horizon from 32°13'12"N 98°12'49"W, azimuth 115°, Thu 2008 Jan 31 6:05 UTC.) Your Sky allows images to be used in any manner, without restriction. The url for a backlink to Your Sky is http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

(I'm not affiliated, just a casual user.)

UFOs: Ours

Segment One of an Unsolved Mysteries show from 1987 about UFOs and United States military aircraft:



Segment Two of the 1987 Unsolved Mysteries show about UFOs and U.S. military aircraft:

UFO crashes do NOT compute

If all the alleged flying saucer and/or UFO crashes were true, that would mean a vast armada of alien craft was in situ around the Earth.

And many of those vehicles were subject to the whims of Earth’s topography and weather (even gravity) after the vicissitudes of a long journey through space or another dimension, causing them to destruct or crash.

The idea of deficient alien spacecraft flies in the face of a highly technical civilization visiting Earth for millennia.

Either some bumbling alien life force started visiting the Earth around 1947, but didn’t have the technical moxie that earlier space beings had.



Or an alien civilization produced a clot of vulnerable craft for the time period and just made it out of their area of the Universe (parallel or otherwise) and ran into trouble with an Earthian environment that befuddled the pilots of those craft or undid the technology that produced them.

It doesn’t make sense, unless there has been no crashed (or recovered) flying saucers and the tales about them are a concoction of muddled minds or tricks of Jacques Vallee’s metaphorical demons.

The Medium may be the only UFO Message

Marshall McLuhan’s dictum that “the medium is the message” (a concept that relates how newspaper formats, TV news broadcasts, and other media presentations are the message rather than the content within them) applies to the UFO phenomenon particularly.

That is, UFOs, as observed, are the message. What UFOs are, exactly, is NOT the message.

The UFO mystery has always been compounded by the various configurations of the things. From the air-ships of the 1890s to the flying saucers of the 1950s, to the triangles of the 1980s, to the gigantic lights of 2007 and 2008 – those observations are diverse and so varied that no one can say what a UFO exactly looks like. But that’s the message.

What UFOs are, in essence, continues to elude investigators of the phenomenon. UFO displays, however, are not elusive, but blatant.

Kenneth Arnold’s chain of flying boomerang-like objects, Mantell’s “Sky Hook” sighting, Reverend Gill’s aquarium object, Zamora’s egg-shaped container, Belgium’s flying triangle(s), O’Hare’s cloud-cutter, and Stephenville’s huge light all tell observers something – not what UFOs are necessarily, but something.



The one constant in all flying saucer and/or UFO sightings is the difference in the configuration and behavior of the reported “objects.”

The UFO medium is the UFO message.

But what exactly is that message?

McLuhan’s concept about media doesn’t have anything to do with meaning, in the philosophical sense. McLuhan doesn’t even provide a clue as to what the medium message is. He merely describes what the medium exudes: cool or warm sensory attributes. Meaning is thus abstract.

This is exactly what modern, abstract art is or does: provide sensory reaction, not meaning. Or not meaning in a logical or rational sense.



The reactive force of media’s McLuhan message, and abstract art’s message, may be likened to Carl Jung’s theory of the archetypes, where imagery has meaning, but that meaning is not relevant to practical, everyday living. The message is transcendental, and applies to the “spiritual” world, where Plato’s real reality pertains.

This is what UFOs provide (perhaps).

Capturing a UFO, despite the Roswell scenario, has nothing to do with UFO reality. Seeing UFOs, describing them, hints at a message that has so far proved elusive to ufologists.



We contend that ufologists are unable to fathom the UFO message because ufologists are inept generally, without the profound investigational acumen that is needed to unravel the UFO enigma….but that for our sister blog, The UFO Provocateur(s) – http://ufoprovo.blogspot.com.

A new discipline is needed to study the UFO phenomenon, one that is untainted by the errant thinking of the past (and present).

And it will take a group, like The Einstein Fellowship, to provide that new discipline…

A new UFO Blog we highly recommend!

The UFO Provocateur(s)

Air Force movies/videos of UFOs

We have converted to video files (.mpg) our collection of movies obtained (some time ago) from the General Services Administration of the Air Force Blue Book collection of UFO movies (listed above).

They may be viewed online at our UFO web-site (http://ufos.homestead.com) or at our Google video site.

Balloons explain many (significant) UFO sightings

Material may be found at:

http://ufos.homestead.com/explained.doc

The Psychopathology of Ufology

Ufologists aren’t seeking the truth about UFOs; they’re just seeking attention.

With the plethora of web-sites and blogs vying for that attention, the UFO phenomenon has become an embarrassment of vanity for those who pursue the things to enhance their own egos or self-loathing.

Displaying everything UFO-related won’t ever get to the heart of the UFO mystery. The panoply of flying saucer detritus merely showcases how discombobulated the UFO community is, with an obvious lacuna in serious research.

Nuts took over the flying saucer visitations in the late 40s and early 50s, and their progeny remains ensconced in the extrapolated phenomenon (or phenomena, if you will) today.

No matter how serious some ufologists pretend to be, their façade belies a need to be notable about something, and UFOs are the modus for their self-fulfillment.

UFOs don’t mean anything to them; it’s the modicum of fame or notoriety that they seek (and need).

A scrutiny of web-site or blog content proves how cavalier UFO research is, and how prominent self-glorification is.

Few blogs and web-sites take the phenomenon seriously – we’ve noted some that do in our blog listings on the right of your monitor screen – but one has to concede that they do entertain, which is primarily what flying saucers, UFOs, and ufologists have done since 1947.



Ufologists who make appearances on television assume an air of seriousness, but a twinkle in their eye or a quirk in their smile (Stanton Friedman is a good example) gives away the frivolousness of ufology. UFOs just can’t be taken seriously, and ufologists know this nowadays, so they play-act at being somber and quasi-scientific.

This psychopathology isn’t harmful however. It’s a fantasy that makes life bearable for many who would otherwise be mired in a truly humdrum existence.

UFOs make their lives palatable, providing escape from anonymity or existential ennui.



Maybe that’s the clue to what UFOs really are: a mechanism of the gods to assuage the boredom that life presents to the great unwashed masses.

Whatever the UFO reality, the one thing one can say about the phenomenon is that it has created a social construct that isn’t beneficial to mankind’s evolution but surely makes for a fun time among the meshuggahs who have made the phenomenon their “raison d’etre.”

UFO DNA -- An excellent UFO web-site

Luke Ford's UFO DNA web-site is replete with superb UFO information.

You can access it here:

http://www.ufodna.com/

UFOs as “Entscheidungsproblem”

Mathematician David Hilbert’s “entscheidungsproblem” (decision problem) applies to algebraic and calculus conundrums mainly, but also applies to the UFO phenomenon: results cannot be conclusively proved, which Kurt Gödel established with his paper, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems.”

Hilbert and Gödel determined that what seems logical from outside a system was not necessarily true (or logical) within a system itself.

UFOs as a systematic phenomenon can be seen in that same light; that is, UFOs may appear to be real from a vantage point apart (outside) of the phenomenon but from within the phenomenon itself may not be real at all, or more “real” than anyone can imagine.

Carl Jung’s view that flying saucers are primarily a psychological manifestation doesn’t work here, as that view is from without the phenomenon but pretends to gather its truth from within the phenomenon, where conclusions can’t be made.

(Jung’s view from within is a chimera: a view from outside the phenomenon that appears to be from inside the phenomenon but is hardly that at all.)

The problem is unresolvable since no one can get inside the phenomenon (and never has been able to do so) to determine what the phenomenon’s real parameters are.

Looking at UFOs from outside has allowed for myriad conjectures as to what the things are.

And “truths” of what UFOs are have been argued, and determined, by various factions of the UFO community.

But such “truths” are not the real truth as such truths are not provable (or determinable) from within the phenomenon itself, which has remained beyond the scrutiny of observers and UFO investigators.

The brilliant recluse, Jacques Vallee, the intellectual Jerry Clark, and the highly intelligent Stanton Friedman can pose hypotheses about what UFOs are, and those hypotheses can be seen as true by others looking at UFOs outside the phenomenon itself.

But without access to the inside of the phenomenon, the “system” as it were, UFOs remain undecidable, and present the “entscheidungsproblem.”

No logic or (true) reality can be determined from within a system (UFOs) itself, and any truth determined from without a system (UFOs) has got to be false by virtue of a lack of an ability to encompass a total truth of a system, mathematical or otherwise.

This means that the totality of the UFO truth is beyond the ken of anyone, even those who (some named above) are skilled in logic, intelligence, and even Jungian intuition.

Mathematical truth, as noted, cannot be encompassed by even powerful logical systems [The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis, W. W, Norton, N.Y., 2000, Page 118].

And UFO truth also cannot be encompassed by powerful logical systems (take note Richard Hall) so conjecture is futile, as it has been and will be.

Thus, pursuing the phenomenon is an act of folly, a madness that even Jung underestimated.

Lame, lame, lame

Both "UFO Hunters" shows (on the SciFi and History networks) Wednesday [1/30] were abysmally pathetic.

The Maury Island case on History got short shrift, diverted by pretend science and the SciFi effort was a case of talking heads and hypnosis for sightings that didn't get addressed by the "hunters" any better than what is done by arm-chair ufologists everyday.

Will the shows get better? One would hope so.

The Facade

A new book from Dr. Michael Heiser -- The Facade -- which we highly recommend may be previewed and/or ordered here:

http://www.facadethebook.com

Why don't gays see UFOs?

Or blacks? Or Latinos? Or any other minority?

UFO witnesses and so-called abductees (experiencers) are invariably white, middle-class or lower class persons.

Aside from Barney Hill and Lonnie Zamora and a very few others, the predominant minority classes are under-represented when it comes to UFO sightings or alleged alien abductions,

Gays never report UFO sightings. (Closeted gays – homosexuals – may do so but those who are overtly gay do not.)

What does this tell us about the phenomenon?

It seems to confirm Carl Jung’s thesis that flying saucers are a myth concocted by the mind of Western Civilization man.



Or, if UFOs are real, tangible objects, they lie outside the interest or experience of those who are suffused with concerns that are more practical or hard-shipped.

That is, UFOs are the purview of those with too much time on their hands or have a need to make their boring lives more interesting.

The panoply of ufologists is comprised of those very middle-class blokes who have no credentials for anything significant.

Persons with careers that mean something are not attracted to ufology. And those who have economic survival needs are not inclined to see or report UFO sightings; they have more immediate interests.

Gays are completely involved with sexual seductions, so UFOs elude their conscious, existential endeavors.



What has sustained the UFO mystery is the rapt attention they get from all those who don’t have a stake in society or any societal cachet. The white, middle and lower-middle class UFO mavens or viewers of UFOs need something to confirm their humdrum existences, and UFOs fulfill a need to make their lives (somewhat) meaningful.

Gays, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other groups making up the sub-stratum of American society couldn’t care less about UFOs, and UFOs don’t impact them or their senses.



But Caucasian members of American society (and that includes white Canadians) have a need to or desire to feel part of the society which ignores them when it comes to making a difference in the world.

Mexico’s inhabitants, excluded by the wealth of its northern neighbor, also are quick to use UFOs to garner a claim to importance that they don’t have economically or politically.

So, one can conclude that UFOs are grist for the desire and needs of the red-necks and/or scruffy members of America’s middle class, with used to be called the Silent Majority, but is very noisy when it comes to UFOs.

UFOs: Cameras “in absentia”

The dearth, or complete absence, of photographs, and therefore, cameras apparently, during the O’Hare Airport sighting of November 2006 is mimicked by the January 2008 Stephenville, Texas sighting of January 2008.

This was also the case during the whole Roswell episode of 1947: no photos of the debris field, the debris itself, or anything else for that matter, excluding the press photos of balloon fragments allegedly belonging to the wreckage that was thought to be a crashed flying disk.



Since YouTube, Flickr, and other online internet photo sites are fraught with thousands of inane pictures, and ABC’s America’s Funniest Videos contains, each week, a plethora of idiotic video captures, one has to wonder why those cameras and cell phones are never at the ready when a UFO occurrence takes place.

This is also the case, somewhat, for so-called UFO abduction events. That is, some persons contend they are repeatedly abducted by aliens, but none of those persons has had the wherewithal to put cameras or other detecting devices in their bedrooms to capture photos or evidence of their UFO captors or the abduction episode.



Setting up surreptitious observation material is common among those who have children and think their nannies or housekeepers may be abusing the kids.



Even NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” has succeeded in capturing video of child molesters, without too much aggravation in setting up their stings.

So why don’t abductees do the same?

Some current History Channel programs (Monster Quest for one) show investigators arranging cameras and traps to capture evidence of unusual creatures of the paranormal or crypto-zoological.



SciFi’s “Ghost Hunters” does the same for ethereal beings said to inhabit (or haunt) places.



But when it comes to UFOs or alien abductions, cameras just seem not to be available.

This is part of the problem with the whole UFO phenomenon: it is betrayed by the klutziness of those who “see” them or are fodder for their kidnappings.

TV Morning Shows Report on Stephenville, Texas UFO Sighting

The Stephenville, Texas UFO sighting of January 2008 as reported by Good Morning America (ABC) and the Today Show (NBC).

Note GMA's Robin Roberts' comment about a lack of photographs (or cameras apparently, down there in Texas -- pertinent):

A Serious Clue to the UFO Mystery

A paper by Charles Hamel

UFOs and Scientology

The third floor at the headquarters of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida is devoted to the investigation of UFOs.



UFOs, or rather flying saucers, factored in Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s life: he and his intimate friend, rocket-fuel scientist John Whiteside Parsons, associated with Naval Intelligence in the late 1940s and early 1950s and both became advocates for flying saucer technology which was being stu