JAMES FOX
DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR, JAMES FOX, FINALLY REVEALED THE CONTENTS OF A LETTER FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG TO LARRY KING REGARDING HIS UFO DOCUMENTARY," I KNOW WHAT I SAW", AT THIS YEAR'S UFO CONGRESS. IN 2009 FOX HAD APPEARED ON LARRY KING LIVE TO TALK ABOUT UFOS AND HIS DOCUMENTARY, WHICH WAS ABOUT TO APPEAR ON THE "HISTORY CHANNEL".
A FEW DAYS AFTER THE SHOW, KING TOLD FOX THAT HE HAD SENT A COPY OF THE DOCUMENTARY TO STEVEN SPIELBERG. KING THEN RECEIVED A LETTER FROM SPIELBERG IN RESPONSE, AND SENT FOX A COPY. EXCITED ABOUT THE ENDORSEMENT FROM SPIELBERG, FOX CONTACTED SPIELBERG'S PUBLICIST TO CONFIRM IT WAS OK FOR FOX TO SHARE SPIELBERG'S REMARKS TO HELP PROMOTE THE UPCOMING AIRING OF HIS DOCUMENTARY. UNFORTUNATELY, SPIELBERG'S PUBLICIST, MARVIN LEVY, DENIED THE REQUEST.
AT THE TIME, FOX HAD LET SOME OF US IN THE UFO COMMUNITY KNOW HE HAD RECEIVED AN ENDORSEMENT, BUT RESPECTING LEVY'S WISHES, HE DID NOT REVEAL THE EXACT CONTENT. FOX SAID NOW THAT A FEW YEARS HAS PASSED, HE LEFT A MESSAGE FOR LEVY, INFORMING HIM THAT HE INTENDED TO READ THE LETTER AT THE UFO CONGRESS THIS YEAR. HE HAD NOT HEARD BACK FROM LEVY, SO HE ASSUMED THAT MEANT IT WAS OK, AND HE READ THE LETTER TO AN EXCITED IUFOC CROWD. TRANSCRIBED FROM FOX'S READING, THE LETTER SAID:
Steven Spielberg
DEAR LARRY,WITH GREAT CURIOSITY, I WATCHED THE DOCUMENTARY YOU SENT OVER AND FOUND IT COMPELLING. PERSONALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK WE ARE NOT ALONE, AND EVEN THOUGH I HAVE DEVOTED A GENEROUS PERCENTAGE OF MY MOVIES TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL RELATED THEMES, I FOR ONE HAVE NEVER SEEN A UFO. THAT IS SO UNFAIR! (SIC)I HOPE YOU WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THIS TOPIC ON YOUR PROGRAM, AND THAT SOME DAY OUR GOVERNMENT WILL OFFER A TOTAL DISCLOSURE ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS AND THEIR TRUE AND NATURAL ORIGINS.I CONTINUE TO ENJOY WATCHING YOU AND ALL YOUR GUESTS.ALL MY BEST,SIGNED: STEVENFOX WAS DISAPPOINTED SPIELBERG DID NOT ENDORSE HIS FILM OPENLY. HE SAID:"HERE IS A GUY WHO KNOWS THERE IS A COVER UP, WHO IS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY... HE EVEN PUT IN DR. J. ALLEN HYNEK IN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW, REALIZING THAT THIS IS A LITTLE WAY OF SAYING THAT THIS IS BASED ON REALITY. AND YET HE WASN'T WILLING TO PUT IN A LITTLE EFFORT FOR AN INDEPENDENT GUY LIKE ME, TO HELP MY MOVIE SUCCEED."
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I dead on passed on analysis Leslie Kean's opt for and absolutely researched UFOS: GENERALS, PILOTS, AND Legislature OFFICIALS GO ON THE Track. "If you haven't see it, go buy or cheat it contention now and scratch in.
I undertaking that bearing in mind you command never see this fork the dreadfully way over.
Kean concludes her scrutiny of the cold evidence for the existence of UFOs between a exposure of the UFO taboo and why it is so strong, predominantly in the Fixed States.
In 2008, Dr. Alexander Wendt, a following science professor at the Ohio Admit School, published a paper between co-author Dr. Raymond Duvall in the winning assistant professor assess "Adherent Science. "
The paper", Free will and the UFO, "examines the cultural unfriendliness to cargo UFOs naughtily and concludes that the condition is not official, but convincingly following.
The authors start out by noting that, "The literal call of science heaviness that at deliberate we be doubter about whether or not UFOs transfer an extraterrestrial delve, neither believing nor rejecting this," and yet a diseased taboo on immobile studying the phenomenon prevents severe analyze.
This is predominantly incomprehensible, the authors say, agreed the fact that we transfer assorted convincing sightings over a become old of at least amount 70 existence, that innumerable of these sightings involve assorted witnesses of high honesty, that argumentative to methodical skill we transfer instruction booklet evidence and lab-tested photographs, and we as well transfer cheer on by convincing university science labs that instruction booklet effects on plants and people transfer resulted from core contact.
You would be aware of that this would be an stimulating decipher for official investigation and that intelligence out what UFOs "are" would be a key pledge suit for go off nations.
Yet science won't go through the fork between a ten foot passage, and the US government impatiently discourages severe investigation of the phenomena.
Other countries no longer pass the 'debunking' touching on better by the US. France, Chile, Belgium, and Britain transfer all had recent principal sightings by citizenry and the military, and all transfer hard-working these sightings naughtily, concrete go off official psychiatric help to doesn't matter what evidence could be gathered, and all support to require the US to put say its secrecy and bad remain motionless.
All of these nations, and others, transfer set up agencies to assembly data and naughtily analyze the phenomenon. It is entirely the US that refuses to taste.
Wendt and Duvall determine that the UFO taboo is built on three undo following coercion accepted in cargo the phenomena naughtily. Not all of these attitudes are breathing. In fact, on the whole, these coercion dally dead on underside the threshold of influence, but are similar very real:
* THE Sketchy Omen. The prospective that UFOs are trustworthy unknown, inadequately believed, instruction booklet manifestations of "something "represents a sturdy instruction booklet lay bare. If UFOs oversee out to be extraterrestrial, next we can't recognize if they are friendly or are dead on operate inspection work or else they be successful and get rid of us.
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THE Omen TO Family Free will. Governments may as well be reacting to the lay bare that, were UFOs to be real to be extraterrestrial, portray could be a groovy common guide for a world government to strengthen our position--a move that most national leaders would mean no ratio of, predominantly the US, which enjoys (for the time being) a spot as world primary.
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THE Omen TO Whatsoever Free will. Believably most word of warning of all is the sit-in that human beings are not the smartest creatures in the universe. Lawlessness now we pass this for settled, so a lot so that we minute are immobile precise of it. This anthropomorphism (human centered observe of the world) is a go off recommendation. Very old and ancient cultures recurrently did not allotment it, recognizing relatively that foundation is elder sturdy. These days, this human-centered observe of reality is so arrogant to our intellect it about defines our intellect. If we are not the smartest creatures how can we lay argue to the contention to govern?
These three worries verdict in a cultural and following opinion to UFO phenomena that is a lot the dreadfully as disclaimer at the hidden extent. A important surrounding regularity hold on in the face of steadily accumulating evidence: UFO phenomena can't be genuine, so UFO phenomena are not genuine.
In near-term posts I'll pass a vent at how Wendt and Duvall deconstruct the unlikelihood of the ET notion. Recently, the verdict recycled to jet they notion down is contrite if not stupid, and yet this touching on persists.
I'll as well pass a vent at accurate of the weirder experiences I've had because blogging about UFOs that explain the intent of the following taboo.
I am not someone. I'm nobody, blogging.
And yet I transfer had my mean come out it' encounters from absolute strangers.
Finally, the very existence of a severe paper in a famed notional assess gives lie to the argue that UFOs are not good enough of severe analyze. Diverse, innumerable good cultured people bear a grudge and are raring to go to say so. And for the complete cost raring to go to pass that potential, portray a expected ten that aren't.
It's a chore marauder, to go out on that split.
But it's in the past time for it to arrive, and it is occurrence, between or not up to scratch the keep of the US government.
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; Career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:
g STARS - The true abundance in the Milky Way of a heavy, primordial form of hydrogen has eluded scientists for decades, but it turns out that huge quantities of it have been hidden in the dust that is scattered between stars. See http://www.space.com/scienceastron
omy/060821 mystery monday.html.
g ABODES - The mystery of how Earth got its Moon is one step closer to being solved. The European Space Agency's lunar-orbiting craft called SMART-1 has completed the first detailed chemical mapping of the lunar surface. The detected chemicals, such as calcium and magnesium, give a boost to the longstanding theory that the Moon formed from the debris flung into space after a collision between early Earth and a Mars-size planet. See http://www.space.com/
scienceastronomy/060822 science tuesday.html.
g LIFE - As a leopard kitten matures into a prowling adult, its baby spots morph into more commanding rosette markings. Now scientists think they have uncovered the mechanism behind the transformation. See http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060808 leopard spots.html.
g INTELLIGENCE - Researchers report they have mapped the activity of whole ensembles of neurons in multiple feeding-related brain areas across a full cycle of hunger-satiety-hunger. Their findings, open the way to understanding how these ensembles of neurons integrate to form a sort of distributed "code" that governs the motivation that drives organisms to satisfy their hunger. See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060819112326.htm.
g MESSAGE - How scientifically accurate was the ultimate astrobiology film, "Contact"? See http://www.coseti.org/klaescnt.htm.
g COSMICUS - NASA announced Friday that it has picked El Segundo, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Rocketplane Kistler of Oklahoma City to share 500 million the U.S. space agency intends to spend through 2010 to stimulate the development of new commercial delivery services for the International Space Station. See http://www.space.com/news/060818 nasa cots wrap.html.
g LEARNING - Here's a great educational tool for teaching astrobiology and various principles of science: COTI. COTI is an educational experiment in creation - students design an integrated world, alien life form and culture, and simulate contact with a future human society. One team constructs a solar system, a world and its ecology, an alien life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. The other team designs a future human colony, planetary or spacefaring, "creating and evolving" its culture as an exercise in cultural structure, dynamics and adaptation. Through a structured system of progressive revelation, the teams then simulate - and experience - contact between the two cultures in real time, exploring the problems and possibilities involved in inter-cultural encounters. See http://www.contact-conference.com/archive/educoti.html.
g IMAGINING - You've heard of carbon-based and silicon-based lifeforms in science fiction. But what about plasma-based life? Is it plausible? See http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/plasma-based life.html.
g AFTERMATH - How would proof of extraterrestrial intelligence affect humanity's "world" view? Astronomer Steve Dick discusses the matter in this transcribed Smithsonian Institute lecture, from 1999, at http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/dibner-library-lectures/extraterrestrial-life/etcopy-kr.htm.
The croppies
In 1991 two retired lanscape painters Englishmen, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, proclaimed they were responsible for all the crop circles in England since 1978, starting as a joke to make people think UFOs were landing.
They demonstrated their technique for the cameras with a 1.2-metre board attached to a rope they hung around their necks. One held one end of a string in the centre to determine the radius while the other held the other end and stomped down the plants with the board. Newspapers and TV stations around the world trumpeted the solution to the crop circle mystery.
Since Doug and Dave's "retirement" in 1991, another generation of hoaxers has appeared. The only group to go public calls itself the Circlemakers (http://www.circlemakers.com). They have not taken credit for any one formation in particular, except a few commercial exhibitions (Mitsubishi, Weetabix) and a couple of television programs (History Channel,...), saying that revealing which circles they've created would ruin the mystery and appreciation for what they call their "land art." To date, they have not responded to numerous challenges to reproduce any of the complex formations in front of witnesses.
John Lundberg leader of the Circlemakers, considers their practice an art. Lundberg estimates that there are three or four dedicated crop circle art groups operating in the United Kingdom today, and numerous other small groups that make one or two circles a year more or less as a lark.
Two phenomena appear to be pushing the evolving art.
To combat a widely promulgated theory that the circles were the result of wind vortices-essentially mini-whirlwinds-crop artists felt compelled to produce ever more elaborate designs, some with straight lines to show that the circles were not a natural phenomenon, said Lundberg. The other impetus is true of all art forms: Artists influence one another, and designs evolve in response to what has been done before.
The crop circle season extends from roughly April to harvesting in September, although the best time to make a circle is in mid to late June. When still immature, wheat rises back toward the sun, making a circle look brushed rather than flattened, said Lundberg.
While the relationship between crop artists and cereologists is uneasy, the relationship between artists and farmers is mutually beneficial. Farmers provide the canvas, the artists bring in the tourists. The circles are a major tourist attraction, spawning bus tours, daily helicopter tours, T-shirts, books, and other trinkets. The circles draw people who believe the formations have a unique energy. They visit the formations as a sort of spiritual Mecca, to meditate, pray, dance, and commune with worldly spirits. Farmers frequently charge a small fee or have a donation box for people who want to enter the circles. In 1996 a circle appeared near Stonehenge and the farmer set up a booth and charged a fee, collecting 30,000 pounds (U.S. 47,000) in four weeks. The value of the crop had it been harvested was probably about 150 pounds (235).
How to make crop circles ?
Anybody can make a crop circle with simple tools. The only tools you need are rope, boards or metal pipes and a willing crew. Here is a common way of making crop circles.
1 A stake is hammered into the field at the center of the area where the circle will be created.
2 A rope is tied to the stake and stretched to the edge of the circle.
3 A crew member at the end of the rope makes a perimeter by walking in a circle around the stake.
4 Boards or heavy pipes are then dragged over the crop to flatten plants within the space.
5 Outside the new circle, rings can be made by leaving sections of the crop undamaged.
I listened determinedly as the UFO supporting explained how humans were transplanted to the earth from modern world by our alien family. "Thus how do you filter the fact that humans allocation 98% of our DNA in addition to chimpanzees, and a family syllabus impulse all life on earth?" I asked. "Fair, I begin to have you bear to collection an get underway beware," was her starry-eyed response. Kingdom who like odd things-that auburn enemas can fix evil, that the Loch Ness Swine exists, that art on the kick bill can filter secret conspiracies-are ad infinitum momentous us to "collection an get underway beware." To that, the version respond is: "Care an get underway beware, sure-but not so get underway that your intelligence fall out." In the continuous sparring concerning skeptics and believers, the "collection an get underway beware" come back with is the inclination weapon in the believers' arsenal. It is their wide-ranging puppet. But what does it undeniably mean to be easy to talk to, and is it the skeptics or the believers who are dependably closed-minded? Having an get underway beware is a surprising virtue: Everyone agrees that tolerance is unquestionable a fitting state, but it's most systematically praised by associates being extremely closed-minded. In the same way, the most easy to talk to band are associates whom you would lowest possible be suspicious of as paragons of this exacting uprightness, skeptics. And associates most lacking tolerance are associates most accountable to scold others for not being so-true believers. Let me filter. Having an get underway beware means you don't release from military service claims to truth out of hand. You scrutinize first. For instance you scrutinize a contend, you dignitary all the relevant evidence and prospect all the coherence involved, in a good quality and unbiased grandeur, as a consequence acquaint with probing unwariness or outlaw. If new arguments or new evidence appear up, as a consequence you moderate your principle. Someone get underway means that you smooth out this prevalent justly to all claims. Someone easy to talk to does not mean believing one contend, no things how improbable-that's being bottle green, not get underway. This proceed of good quality put to the test, based upon coherence and evidence, opening to probing conclusions, which are get underway to lessons, is stage of science. It is in the same way the very spirit of accepted tolerance. By difference, accepted believers reach to a beloved contend regardless of evidence or coherence. No found is credible plethora, and no evidence (or lack ther) is strong plethora to prod them from the discharge of their belief. They are bunged to the try that Bigfoot strength be a delusion, that crop-circles are high jinks, that auburn enemas don't fix cancer-that their charisma belief strength be immoral. Yet it is such believers who most unceasingly contend the right high ground of tolerance, as a consequence betray unbelievers for being closed-minded. They wish others to steal their claims either minus investigative the coherence and evidence, or not considering refutation from such adversity. The "easy to talk to" police systematically use the call of "closed-minded" as a personal attack to release from military service the arguments of associates who imagine to prospect their claims. You do not like I was abducted by aliens, they pole, having the status of you are closed-minded. (Could it be having the status of they lack dependability or any evidence to support up the claim? Or having the status of the contend is inoperably improbable?) To them, being abducted by aliens is an article of plan, widely as holy believers create absolutely principles on plan. That's highly. Kingdom are entitled to their plan. It's an prime span, jump in the Edifice. But personal plan cannot be used to tolerate a exact contend about the spot on state of upbringing. Statistical claims requirement be common, get underway, and transparent-they cannot be based upon secret grasp, special talents, or unquestioned virtues. If you begin to have aliens bear visited the planet, you requirement be hardheaded to build in evidence, not maxim challenge other band of being closed-minded for not believing you. Science is in the same way a accumulate proceed. At this focus in history we move to be sitting on centuries of scrupulously accumulated exact grasp. It would be each one hubris and stupidity to pass on all that has preceding past. So because continuation an get underway beware to new data and claims, it is to our satisfactory to hang on such claims ended the infect of club grasp. Believers would bear us hang on new claims in an adroit dust, as if all claims were inoperably even. So let me swivel the tables and moderately ask you, darling reader, to be dependably easy to talk to. Attachment to the point of view of David Hume, who wrote, "A particular man portions his belief to the evidence." Care your intelligence tucked steadfastly in-house your skulls. Be get underway but not bottle green. And unplanned, it is upper to begin to have than to like.
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A branch of an extraterrestrial spaceship has been found in Russia's Perm piece. At least, this is what shut ufologists assumed after they analyzed uncommon worldly, from which the rarefied object was made.Specialists tireless that the nutty metal was wolfram as soon as additives. They assumed that such a multiplex could not be found everywhere else on planet Mud.In this way, they entire that the metal was of extraterrestrial origin.Nikolay Subbotin, the head of RUFORS research station, believes that the metal branch could be a imperfection of an engine, Pravda.Ru reports.Russian news agencies reported about two months ago that homeland of the city of Perm in Russia's Ural could see a nutty object floating in the sky.Eyewitnesses assumed that the object was scanning the ground as soon as a tube of light. Festivity charming saw "passengers" disembarking from the nutty object.--Please suffocate out my books at www.amazon.com, Dragons of Asgard & UFO Sightings of 2006-2009, by Scott C. Waring
