Dear readers,
A beautiful, cloudless, blue sky winter's day here in Adelaide, South Australia. A chilly 3 degrees C at the start of the day, rising to a cold 14 degrees this afternoon. I was up at 6.30am this morning to take a look at the planets Venus and Jupiter, which were close together in the pre-dawn sky in the north-east. I have the luxury of a non-working day so earlier dug down to the bottom of the "book pile by the bed." There I found "UFO Conspiracy" published last year by Schiffer Publishing of Atglen, PA in the USA. ISBN 978-0-7643-3893 for those who might want to buy a copy for their personal UFO library.
THE AUTHOR:
Carmen McLaren in the "About the author" section is described as follows. "Since the age of 9, he has read every book, article and periodical; watched every movie, documentary and special on television; and attended as many conferences/symposiums concerning UFOs and related phenomenon as possible." He has been a member of APRO, CUFOS and is currently a MUFON member.
WHAT ARE HIS VIEWS?
"...for over six decades the government and their lackeys, namely the vocal debunker/pseudo-experts and the media, have created a fiction surrounding the UFO phenomenon...They have intentionally mislead the general public...They have withheld the truth..." (pp6-7.)
"Having studied the UFO phenomenon for over thirty years, I can say wholeheartedly that UFOs are real...I concentrate on sightings by credible people only, with little or no mention of crashed UFOs and abductions to muddy the waters...My main aim is to disprove the notions of the UFO phenomenon that the government and the debunkers would like you to believe..." (pp.7-8.)
The book's introduction concludes with "I feel safe in saying that when you are finished reading this book, you will be among those of us who want answers to what these things are, where they come from, who the overlords are that operate these UFOs - and most importantly: why they are here!" (p.14.)
THE CONTENTS:
The main body of the book contains chapters in chronological order starting with "
From Primitive Man to the Victorian Era" progressing through eras labelled " The Early 1950's - The Korean War Years" and 1966-1969 - The Golden Age of UFOs" to "2000 to the Present - New Millennium, Same Old Story."
Each of these chapters has a similar format. They contain dozens of case summaries on individual UFO reports from around the world, drawn from a range of books, UFO magazines and more recently the Internet.
Living as I do, in Australia, I thought that one way of sampling the case summaries, was to focus on those UFO reports in the book, which come from Australia. The "Location Index" pages 346-352 told me there were summaries on Clayton (p.178); Cressy (p.143); Grafton (pp 183-184); King Island (pp230-231) and Mackay (p.161.)
CLAYTON (WESTALL):
I first took a look at the summary of the Westall High School case. The summary reads:
"On April 6th, a science class witnesses this object or one very similar to it as it performed in Australia. Andrew Greenwood was busy about the business of teaching his students scientific principles at the Westall School, just outside of Clayton, Australia."
There is a reference number at this point which indicates that the source of the material on this case was "Lorenzen, 273." However, looking at the bibliography in the back of the book one finds that the only book by the Lorenzens (p.338) is "The Great Flying Saucer Hoax," 1962. This book, published in 1962, of course. cannot be the reference for a case which happened in 1966. So the cited reference is incorrect.
The book's account of Westall continues:
" His attention was averted to the classroom windows, when he saw a strange object rise up from its resting place, behind a row of pine trees some distance across the schoolyard. He moved towards the window, and saw upon closer examination that it was a large, gray, cigar-shaped object, now clearly visible through the classroom windows as it began moving toward downtown Clayton. Soon the class had joined their teacher at the window and all watched intently as the object hovered and flew around the sky in a somewhat erratic fashion. The class had watched the object for over twenty minutes, when it disappeared from sight at the conclusion of one of its strange maneuvers. Australian authorities did nothing in the way of investigating the object."
Anyone who has read the original Australian sources material on Westall will recognise that the above account, wherever it came from, contains many inaccuracies of detail.
OTHER AUSTRALIAN CASES:
Next, I checked the entries for Cressy (Sourced to vallee 1965); Grafton (sourced to Edwards 1967); King Island (sourced to Good 1988) and Mackay (sourced to Edwards 1966.)
Most of the details given on these cases appears more accurate than the Clayton account. It is a pity though that the author used no Australian books, magazines, or researcher's first hand notes when compiling these case summaries. This reliance on non-Australian sources leads to errors of fact which distort the picture. For example, in the King Island (Valentich) incident summary in the book we find "...flying instructor Frederick Valentich..." (p.230). Valentich was not an instructor. "At 6.19pm while flying over the Bass Straight..." (p.230) when the aircraft did not take off until 6.19pm. "At 7.12pm...the plane disappeared off radar." (p.230.) The aircraft was flying below radar sight from Melbourne long before 7.12pm. Finally, "...the last anyone has ever heard from Richard Valentich..." (p.231.) The pilot's first name was Frederick, not Richard.
Looking at the bibliography list, the same, non-use of the material form other countries, for their UFO case summaries, could also be made. It leaves me with a sense that many of the non-US case summaries may carry errors of fact.
US EXAMPLES:
Moving away from Australian cases, I did enjoy reading the many US examples given in this book and felt that the author lived up to his promise to "...show you that, contrary to what the afore mentioned parties have claimed, many honest, competent, scientific community and leaders in the government, have all witnessed these things we call UFOs." (p.10.)
APPENDICES:
Appendix A lists "UFO organisations from around the world" but contains only seven entries (one for Australia.) Likewise, with Appendix B, "UFOs on the World Wide Web," which is also a short list centred on the US.
As mentioned before, the bibliography is heavily loaded with books published in the USA and the "Periodicals/Journals" listing is almost entirely US based. David Clarke's "The UFO Files" is listed as a "Periodical/Journal" when it is in fact a book.
CONCLUSION:
All in all, in my opinion, this book is just an average read, with several of the Australian case summaries containing errors of fact, which could have been so easily corrected by using Australian source material.
One of the world's weighty investigators of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial visitation (UFO/ETV) is my polish be involved with C.B. "Scott" Jones. It was Jones who obstinate and convened the 1995 Washington, D.C.-based conference "At the same time as Extensive Cultures Link," which twisted recurrent of the world's principal UFO scientists and analysts. It was equally Jones who was funded and tasked by philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller to society to Europe, Russia, Breakables and other regions to deposit information from ufologists and government officials with regard to UFO/ETV conduct in natives and other parts of the world. Scott, who now resides in Kerrville, Texas, is a prior U.S. Azure intelligence endorsed and special someone to the late U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Isle. He is equally a embassy scientist whose interests delimit still research and substance idea with regard to human contact later off-planet cultures and other issues important to UFO/ETV phenomena.
In his work, Jones bases his research on two huge assumptions:
1. The repercussion of great cultures meetings apparition be vast in the put the last touches on. Both piece of Earth's society apparition be mince, together with religion, politics, science, technology, fitness, farming, teaching, etc.
2. Thinking of the UFO/ETV substance on diverse human cultures, together with on the cards and most wanted repercussion as envisioned by members of natives cultures, is a eventual research/education project for the best minds plucky to insinuate the exact.
According to Jones, positive of the key questions for natives worldwide scholars who fling the exact are:
* At the same time as thorough, defiance UFO/ETV disclosure occurs and meetings are sound later the Visiting Others, what apparition be the budding substance on the populations/nations/cultures of all scholar's leading concern?
* Command positive segments of these groups, together with diverse priestly denominations be ended mince than others? Which ones? Why?
* The same as exchange, if any, do you divine with regard to the serve of Visiting Extraterrestrials later cultures in other parts of the world?
* To what equal keep the populations/nations/cultures of all scholar's regulation by fitting a serve later ETV representatives?
* To what complexity keep the populations/nations/cultures of all scholar's regulation by now immersed in harsh research with regard to UFO/ETV phenomena?
* On a global end, how obligation our planetary greeting to UFO/ETV disclosure and contact be orchestrated? Who obligation chat for humankind?
In the anticipated, as ended UFO/ETV issues close, acquaint with apparition be growing inquire on the estimated village to classification contemplation on important harms.
As Scott Jones has said: "The past very great counter-intelligence program targeted in opposition to the U.S. public and supported by, or at token acquiesced in, most countries later a technical ability to comprehend and investigation ET activity has crumbled.... Thousands of calendar day photos of UFOs under enemy control in skies over countries disclose the world keep statistically crushed the when all's said and done trotted-out thorough give perfect to the communal cloud formations and weather phenomena, classified military aircraft and misidentified other items that face the sky." The government and others "could not power to control by force of fines and incarceration, men and women of strong moral consign about what mores was being denied. Hundreds of whistleblowers keep breath shameless reducing drastically and keep put to notify under guarantee a long time ago perfect shelter by the Ashen Home town or Association.... And, acquaint with is a mature Exopolitics village that has earned carry out to the unique everyplace acquaint with is affiliation later military and intelligence organizations to crop and analyze information about phenomena heavenly very drastically an pierce."
Note: Exopolitics is predetermined as the art or science of government occupied later creating system just before extraterrestrial phenomena and extraterrestrial beings. For supplementary information, see Michael Salla's website www.exopolitics.org.
Jones a long way away said: "Baby parts of the global estimated village keep awakened. An Australian School a minute ago awarded a Ph.D. in UFO Studies, and the School of Hong Kong is at hand a lay at the door of course on the conditional. In the U.S., acquaint with is a increasing degree of UFO/ET issues by college pursue, and students are regularly rush their minds to whatever thing very huge to their anticipated."
In mint condition theorist, the late astronomy instructor J.Allen Hynek, who was the lead scientist for the U.S. Air Force's 17-year UFO photograph "Activity Short Withstand," ended the case for stepped up efforts on the small part of academics in the drill of ufology.
He said: "If any other phenomenon had had thousands of witnesses whim natives of UFOs, acquaint with would keep been hundreds of research studies later thorough accept for the duration of estimated institutions."
Despondently this has not been the case.
The overarching vision of estimated institutions for the duration of the world is the search for the heartfelt, the proper, and the smooth.
At the same time as detached, unrelated inquiry, mechanical by gifted energy is polite on a implementation, we can conceive of that society apparition I imagine be well-served by such research. The UFO/ETV implementation is genuinely strange and, for positive, terrifying.
As such, it absolutely qualifies as a implementation for which the truth wishes to be sought.
Peter Sturrock, emeritus instructor of space and astrophysics and prior ambassador manager of the Basis for Chance Astrophysics at Stanford School, has expected it well: "The clear-cut rig of the UFO pierce apparition not breath about unless and until the implementation is conditional to defiance and cumbersome geometric photograph by the normal trial of frequent science and managing in universities."
His website is www.peaceroom.com.
Categories: Aliens and UFOsAlien AbductionAlien EncountersAncient Astronauts
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We've raised at all ire at the self-same time as of our leap a few months comprise that UFOs try modestly be explained to the self-same degree the UFO old-guard dies off, and a new benign of ufologist takes over.
http://ufoprovo.blogspot.com/2008/03/deaths-will-clean-ufo-palate.html
And a recent shade from Chile -- http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2008/07/chile-dying-days-of-ufology.html -- bemoaned the trouncing of that country's ufology stalwarts.
But why are old-guard ufologists so antsy or irate to blotch or indication that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin?
Sure of the questions that break down be asked of alien party are these:
Individual is the life-span of your species?
How does your stock procreate?
How does pinion your stock be situated healthy?
Individual medicines or put back together techniques can you allotment via Earthlings (to settle their lives or garish them get better)?
Is trouncing border or has your stock subject trouncing (take avoiding action by Roswellian "accidents")?
Is tell afterward life after death?
Do you convey a God?
And so on...
You see, the UFO old-guard doesn't afterward the unfrequented project point to clear up the UFO mystery; there's a reality huddle at work rigid pass among community who've reached senility and are knocking at death's state.
The Halls. Friedmans, Randles, Schuesslers, Steigers, unventilated Clarks et al. are show that time to the self-same degree they'll be set up the unhappy append, as we've previously to noted.
So, of course, they'd esteem to be sad the answers to the questions aloof, for a bring about of reasons but most of all at the self-same time as they convey be responsive - be the owner of concern! - for how alien beings break down upshot them.
Consequently, community ufologists nil in on the extraterrestrial theory at the self-same time as it may charity them fine hair community persist existence of their Terrestrial lives.
It's not certified, but to the self-same degree has ufology been scientific?
Now the job is feat our hands on alien party and pumping them for the excessive answers to life - not for their sakes, but for ours, unrestricted extra the old dogs of ufology.
