From hidden experience: 'UFO Jounalist Roger Marsh ignores abduction reports'

Mike Clelland at hidden experience has this to say about UFO reporter-MUFON-guy Roger Marsh:

hidden experience: UFO Journalist Roger Marsh ignores abduction reports: Okay, here’s my beef...
The abduction aspect is being marginalized within the UFO research community. This is an absolute truism, and both Roger Marsh and MUFON are towing that line. They seem to be wishing this aspect of the phenomenon would just go away. Wouldn’t it be so much better if it was all just lights in the sky?

Timely blog post by Mike -- I just wrote about the importance of researching all the data. This seems so damn obvious and I've been ranting about it for so long I often feel silly for bringing it up, and yet, this current episode with Marsh occurs, reminding us that the need to remind everyone it is dishonest, for one, to reject and trivialize the parts you don't like.
What Marsh said was this:

"Okay, if it's my personal feelings, there may be one section of the listening audience that maybe follow alien abductions, I kind of have to push that aside." [Marsh]

As Mike Clelland writes, it is very troubling that a self-described NY Times caliber reporter and MUFON member to boot be so glib when it comes to parts of the UFO phenomena.

Layers of Paranormal (Conspiracy) Theories

     Michael J. Wood was the first hour's guest on Coast to Coast last night:

"Mike Wood is a PhD student and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His research concerns the relationships between different kinds of conspiracy beliefs, persuasive techniques used by pro-conspiracy-theory and anti-conspiracy-theory advocates online, and conspiracy theories as a worldview or ideology." [Coast to Coast]

     George Knapp was the host, and as always, asked the good questions. At one point Knapp mentioned that, among paranormal and UFO researchers, the idea that once you believe in one conspiracy theory you then believe in most, doesn't always hold true. In fact, it is more the norm to hold one seemingly out there theory (Sasquatch exists) but not that Sasquatch is an inter-dimensional being related to UFOs. Belief in ghosts, but not UFOs. UFOS, but not the Loch Ness creature. Aliens, but not fairies. Sasquatch as fairy? Don't be ridiculous! We all know that among most UFO researchers, the idea that Sasquatch is involved or any number of high strangeness events are not to be entertained. 

illustration: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Elves and Fairies 1916

     Knapp made an excellent point about the divisions among researchers of the unusual and their dismissive attitudes towards encounters and theories that don't fit in with their biases. But there are some of us who don't fit that mold. Forteans, anomalists, Keelians, cross-over theorists; there are various labels for those of us who explore these areas and have no problem with considering possible connections between them. As I've remarked many times, you can't possibly begin to see the fuller picture if you are constantly rejecting the parts you find too wierd, too irritating, too silly, even, to consider. And when talking with a witness of an anomalous event, be it a UFO sighting or encounter with Bigfoot, the researcher must treat that witness with both gratitude and respect, and not hide, reject or scoff at the more incredible details of their story.

     While debte continues to rage on concerning Bigfoot as paranormal vs. flesh and blood, aliens/ET as something other than nuts and bolts,  and so on, the field does have its share of researchers do not edit, but share stories from witnesses in their entirety without judgement. To name just a few:

• Nick Redfern
• John A. Keel (deceased)
• The Daily Grail
• The Anomalist
• Skylaire Alfvegren
• Jacques Vallee
• Andy Colvin
• Colin Bennett
• Scott Corrales
• Tim Beckley 
• Stan Gordon
• Lisa Shiel

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Okay then.UFO writer wanted.

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Area 51 'Disclosure' : You, Me, and Everyone Else

We're all commenting on the big CIA news, that yes, Area 51 really does exist! That news nothing new here move along item made the front page of our local paper, the Register Guard, with Associated Press writer Hannah Dreier's glib fluffy happy news piece with the headline UFO Fans cheer CIA's admission on Area 51.  Referring to UFO "believers" as, well, believers, as well as "UFO buffs," Dreier puts the screws in with "...the tinfoil hat crowd." Dreier quotes an Audrey Hewins of Maine who "...runs a support groups for people like her who believe they have been contacted by extraterrestrials..."

"I'm thinking htat they're probably testing the waters now to see how made people get about the big lie and cover-up." 

No, they're not. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but here goes. As we all know, no news at all. Everyone knows Area 51 is "real." This national news disclosure is of course, not disclosure of any kind of any thing.

We also know that this is just a big silly happy dance act put on for popular culture. It's also disinformation and misinformation. Misdirection. It's tied in with the scramblings of the President and the NSA who have been assuring us that the NSA doesn't really spy on us, not like you think they do. Releasing the news nothing new here move along item soothes the submerged panic within the hoi poli, but doesn't do anything in terms of productive and authentic value to the world regarding UFOs. 

Top secret human made technology to protect us is what goes in Area 51, and that's all we really need to know, according to the big news.  Rest assured, now that we have been officially informed by the CIA, bless their hearts, things are all right. We don't need to fear anything; not our government, hell we can trust them! --  they just admitted Area 51 exists, after all -- not the NSA, because they only listen in for our own good.

U2 Plane: see wikipedia on NASA cover story

This is akin to the government's "admitting" that Roswell was really weather balloons, no, we mean crash test dummies, wait, what we meant was ... oh well. At least they admitted Roswell was all them, and not ET-alien-inter dimensional non-human entities playing with our minds.

I love what Whitley Streiber said last night on Coast to Coast. (I have always respected Strebier but have gone back and forth with the variations on the UFO experiencer continuum, but at this point, I believe him, and I respect him, and that's that) who said (paraprhasing) "I'm sane, anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs at this point is the one who is  insane." Yes, it gets down to that. ET exists, UFOs are, and that's the truth. Millions of degrees as to what, who, and why they are, let alone mean, but they are. So get over it and get to work.

Meanwhile, we get propaganda within propaganda, because believe it, this ridiculous "news" the CIA has come clean about Area 51 is propaganda. All the right words are used in Dreier's piece:

• "tinfoil hat," 
• "UFO buffs" 
• "believers" 
• "conspiracy theorists" 
• "little green men" (!)
• "the truth is out there"
• "UFO aficionados"
• "alien vehicles"
• "Roswell incident"
• "extraterrestrial corpses"
• and the killer: "...Stanton Friedman, a self-described UFologist..." 

The Dreier piece ends abruptly, doesn't go anywhere, and does just what it's supposed to do: pass on the silly factor to the mainstream news.

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We've seen a few streak by but it's difficult in the city with all the lights. We'll keep watching however! Perseid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Now: How to Watch | Space.com

Space Station Viewing

We saw the space station go by last night. I wonder how many UFO reports come in during the space station passing? You can still see it go by; check NASA's Spot the Space Station for specifics in your area.

UFO Photographer Wilbur Allen

Wilbur Allen was last night's guest on C2C:UFOs and Wormholes - Shows - Coast to Coast AM.

Very interesting. Wilbur is a professional photographer, working for National Geographic, among other entities. He uses a variety of cameras with high end filters, infra red and well, I'm no camera expert but you get the idea. (Wilbur is also interested in ghost research and other anomalous type subjects, using cameras to document the existence of unexplained phenomenon.) Wilbur is also a UFO/ET witness.

Skeptics of course are having their say over at the James Randi discussion forum. According to them, all Wilbur has shown are images of meteors entering our skies.

It is a fact that the use of night vision cameras and other high end cameras with special filters (ultra violet, etc.) capture things in ghost and UFO hunting that can't be seen with the naked eye. What all this means, that's another story. But anyone who has watched any of these programs where these cameras are used, or looked at YouTube videos, can't deny the fact of data. Yet, some do.

When I clicked on the link on the Coast to Coast site to go to Wilbur's site, I received a "Directory Listing Denied -- This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed" message. Hmmm. I then Googled Allen's site: www.ufodc.com and got the same message. On C2C last night host John B Wells said some listeners were emailing that the site was crashed due to heavy use; Wells said his server "could handle it." So glitch or something more sinister? Always the conspiratorial mind.

Interesting hearing Wilbur on the program, but haven't seen enough of his work to know what I think about what he says he's captured.

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Host John B Wells tonight:UFOs and Wormholes - Shows - Coast to Coast AM

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On the edge, yet still . . .

     It's 2013. In the context of UFOs, we're talking aliens, ET, flying saucers, technology beyond our most wild of imaginations, and, with all that, the oft times assumption that "they" -- the aliens -- are also far more spirituality advanced than us, given their extraordinary technology. (That is an opinion I do not share; it's not a given that creatures with advanced technology would also be advanced spiritually.)
     So in this context of on the edge, fringe thought, I ask two questions: one, why do alien UFO shows still use the term B.C. instead of B.C.E., and, two, why do the writers of these shows still use the term "mankind" instead of "humankind?"

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Alien Views:.. No One Home...

The always creative, prolific, and insightful Alfred Lehmberg:alienviews: No One Home

Sky, Trout, and Devil

     The following had nothing to do with UFOs or research, but it does involve animals and the dream state, so good enough. Night before last I had a dream, set in one of my many recurring dream states. This one was the one where it's a in the middle of nowhere semi-tourist teeny town surrounded by woods. Single lane highway through it. Usually it's night when I'm here. Don't know where all this goes, where I'm going, always a little anxious and even creepy.
     Someone steals my fifteen year old car and refurbishes it -- turns it into a weird Jeep/trike bike combo thing, with a domed window covering, like an inverted fishbowl, the interior of the car-jeep-bike.
     I get the car back, annoyed this guy just up and stole my car and took it upon himself to change it. On the way to my car I come upon three dogs: two black labs, about a year or two old, and a German Shepherd, about four or five years old. These dogs are fantastic! Funny, sweet, intelligent. They have been waiting for me. Their only "job" is to be with me. We are all so damn happy to be together! I have a lucid moment; why am I dreaming about dogs, when two dogs recently killed my beloved cat, Roswell, recently (I am still grieving his death) and, the only time I've been bitten by a dog was by a black lab. The only time my husband has been bitten was by a black lab. (That attack was so bad he had to go to the hospital.) And I'm no fan of German Shepherds, not a favorite breed of mine.
     Oh well. These dogs, in the dream, are just so great. We're all communicating very easily and telepathically. One of them says "Hey, we need names. You have to name us!" So I call one of the black labs "Sky", the other one "Trout," and the German Shepherd, "Devil." That last one cracks us all up, because it's a joke. "Devil" in an affectionate way, he is very un-Devil like. Not a vicious bone in his body. So we all get a good laugh out of that name. I have another lucid moment and think, "Hmm, Devil sounds a little off, but now Diablo, that's much cooler." So we go back and forth calling him Devil or Diablo, still laughing about the name.
     Later, looking at vintage images of Tarot cards, I find this:

Image source for card here.

     It is interesting a black dog is used for the Death card. In this card the dog appears to be a Great Dane, not a black lab. The black dog image in folklore, particularly Celtic lore, is connected with the supernatural, death, appearing usually at night. Google black dog folklore and you'll find a lot to explore. Aside from the traditional black dog lore, there is an interesting black dog story related by Whitley Strieber in Solving the Communion Enigma; What is to Come. A dead black dog  -- a lab -- was found on neighbor's property in the midst of the intense (that's an understatement!) UFO activity Whitley and his family were experiencing. Streiber reminds us that Cerberus  the black dog, is the guardian of Hades. Obviously why this Tarot card depicts a  black dog. Interesting I called the shepherd in my dream "Devil" -- my subconscious picking up on filed away knowledge. (though why I named him Devil and not one of the black labs I don't know.)
     I wrote at the beginning that this has nothing to do with UFOs but as I went along, remembered the black dog story in Strieber's book. Domed vechilces, and a black lab named Sky. Trout, however, remains puzzling. Unless, as Douglas Adams once wrote, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."