James Carion and CUT

Ex-director MUFON director James Carion announces a brand new UFO organization: CUT. CUT stands for Center for UFO Truth.

Here’s what I wrote on Facebook:

Oh dear. Not "affiliated in any way with UFology" yet "CUT" (there's an interesting Fortean twilight language kind of word to use)  studies "early days of UFOs ... answering the question long ignored by historians -- was the UFO subject purposely created by the United States. .. part of a cold war operation?" That's been asked before. But anyway, how is this NOT to do with UFology?! It'll be interesting for sure but how far is one willing to go in trusting government sources? Der.  And this gem: "CUT will work outside of the three ring circus that is Ufology and will not accept the contributions of anonymous individuals or alleged whistleblowers nor will it examine alleged leaked documents." So he's distancing himself yet once again from the unwashed masses and "...circus" of UFology, going so far as to call what he's doing - studying an aspect of UFOs --- not UFology.  Newsflash Mr. Carion, you ARE part of the "circus," -- we all are. How an ex-director of MUFON, who is currently involved in a new organization exploring an aspect of UFOs, say with a straight face he is not part of the "circus" is a deliciously ironic, er, circus like, stance to take.

I’ll add that the word UFO is in the name of the group! UFO is part of the acronym, yet, Carion insists, this new enterprise (heh, talk about twilight language) contains the word UFO in its very title. The title is also fun, in its ironic pot/kettle black way, for its word "truth." What a display of arrogance and self important stuff shirted puffery!

Carion never did like saucer heads. He reiterates his distaste for the distasteful and bothersome UFO witnesses and UFO explorers of various kinds:

CUT will work outside of the three ring circus that is Ufology and will not accept the contributions of anonymous individuals or alleged whistleblowers nor will it examine alleged leaked documents.

Yes, why bother with interviewing witnesses to see if they are credible or do the work involved to determine authenticity of documents? 

This is the problem with would be UFO Police; they set up their own little paradigm, decide to reject a good portion of what’s out there, and all the time, they’re congratulating each other on finally getting to the “truth.”

When you combine a systems like that with a dismissive attitude that reeks of classism and an obvious distaste for 90% of the thing you’re studying, you cannot possibly get to any “truth.” 

The Big Lie
Recently, the cyclic meme that “UFOlogy is dead” has been making the rounds, and I wonder: is this thing we loosely call UFOlogy really dead? Or is it just something people say out of frustration? I think the latter. UFOlogy is constantly shifting, and in fact, some big shakeups have been happening recently (David Jacobs, Cherry, and, um,  Carion. . . ) but that doesn't make it dead.

Do some think UFOlogy is “dead” because of the oft bemoaned statement that, “after such and such many years, we don’t have any answers?”

Carion remarks:

Ufology has nothing to show for more than 60 years of amateur investigation and research. By not establishing professional evidentiary standards, Ufology will neither join the halls of academic "ologies" nor will it discover the truth of what lies behind the subject of UFOs.

The us of the qualifier “amateur” is unfair. It’s snide. We’re all amateurs. Does he mean amateur in the popular sense: meaning, less than? Or in the true sense, meaning not paid for one’s work? Amateur has come to mean the former, more often than not, but being “amateur” does not always mean inferior. You cannot take away the study of UFOs from “the people” no matter how much you want to. And if you do, why do you want to? What's the intent?

We don’t have the Big Final Answer That Fits All to the UFO phenomenon. Carion’s mistake, as with many others: thinking there is one.

I don’t know what halls of “ologies” he means, probably the institutions of science, academia, and ironically, the very governmental agencies he plans on getting all this information from, but the reality is: CUT, too, is just another UFO group in the eyes of those “ologies.”

But back to the meme that “after sixty years we haven’t found the answer” -- I wonder if that’s true. No, we don’t have full disclosure, or the Beyond a Doubt UFO From Outer Space craft or an alien body. Well, not one revealed to the world on CNN anyway.

The UFO phenomenon has layers upon shadowy layers upon deeper darker layers. It’s a given UFOs and aliens are “real” and here,  We’ve moved way beyond that. We know they are; we don't’ know what they are.

Parsing the UFO experience down to a small segment --   U.S. government agencies intentionally creating false UFO scenarios to distract  -- is not a new idea, nor a surprise. And finding further proof that was the case at times won’t definitively provide an answer to what UFOs are.

A Fortean Tornado

This tornado event in Connecticut -- or rather, "suspected" tornado -- has lots of Fortean elements; really, the event itself struck me as Fortean. Starting with the use of the word "suspected" in describing such tornado:

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and collapsing several buildings as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported.

Besides the use of the word "suspected" was the use of "unconfirmed"

There were unconfirmed sightings of a tornado..

You'd think the article was reporting on a UFO or Bigfoot sighting.


I wonder what part of the weather event caused such suspicion; it certainly behaved like a tornado:

Hundreds of bricks shook loose from buildings, trees split in half and crushed cars, and a billboard hung precariously several stories up over Main Street. Nine buildings were partially or fully collapsed, including three on East Main Street that were brought to their foundations . . .
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a state of emergency after the fast-moving system of driving rain and wind gusts that reached 78 miles per hour in the area.

 Jacqueline Arroyo, 44, said she saw a black cloud and ran inside to her third-floor apartment, where the window exploded. Trees were blown so ferociously they appeared to be coming out of the ground, and people were screaming, she said.

"All the wind started coming inside the house. I heard 'boom, boom!'" she said. "It was so fast but terrifying."

And so on. Among the damaged buildings: "a museum dedicated to P.T. Barnum"

Despite the damage, witness reports, the "unconfirmed tornado sightings," the weather service has to go and check it out for themselves before confirming or denying.



Read complete article here.

Enrique Castillo Rincon, Contactee

Came across the following time on UFOs, et al blog about the 1973 experience of Contactee Enrique Castillo Rincon. Rincon lived in Colombia. His experiences include tall aliens in diving suits (a not so unusual motif) and the craft he saw -- “domed ships” -- appeared to have come from a nearby body of water. Like many Contactees, Rincon received some form of telepathic messages from “several groups” of individuals in various areas.
CONTACTS OF ENRIQUE CASTILLO RINCON

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Facebook Mini Rant

I responded to something on Facebook, just thought I'd share. Sums it up, maybe I'll put it on my business card!

UFOlogy is not "dead," no one should be the Great UFO Decider, it ain't all that serious, and it is all VERY serious, science will never embrace us saucer heads, but that's okay because like Groucho said: (paraphrasing) "I don't want to be a member of any club that'd have me", one person's embarassing fruitcake is another person's tasty brownie, some of us are stuck with weird experiences and we're trying to figure it out, no, we won't shut up, far too many smug stuffed shirts pontificating their way through UFO Land, judgements, classism, self-importance, and not listening to the witnesses. I'd hate to go off on a rant though!

Tim Beckley's SAUCER BLAST!

Mr. UFO, Tim Beckley, has a new blog:   Saucer Blast! Groovy!

June 5th Spiral Over Australia

YouTube clip of the spiral over Australia. Pretty much like the Norway spiral. Explanation for this one: U.S. rocket ship. (I know, we don't say "rocket ship" anymore, I just like the way it sounds.)

Binnall Is NOT Gone, Just Down for a Wee Bit

If you've been over to Binnall of America recently, you noticed the site is down. But don't worry, it's temporary, Tim's been doing great things with the site with upgrades and new looks... latest news, BoA should be up sometime tonight.

Sun Music

Scientists have discovered the sun makes music, or more accurately, that the vibrations have been translated to sound:

They found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument.

"Spiral" UFOs in Mexico

Spiral type UFOs in Mexico. Read my earlier post about spiral UFOs here. (Also on UFOMystic.)

These UFOs, the Norway spiral being the most spectacular, share some similarities. They seem to start out the same way, some develop into full out spirals, others don't make it. This is assuming of course they're of the same type of UFO. We don't know what these are: aliens, military, missiles, industrial, who knows. Interesting, for sure. What they are, well, maybe one day we'll find out.

This one is called a "wormhole" by the person who posted it on YouTube. From December 2009:



From 2010, Jamie Maussan at the UFO Congress, with clips of spirals from other countries. I'm not commenting on Maussan's interpretations, just noting the images.

UFO Mystic: MKULTRA, The Strange Story of Sally Hartman

My latest on UFO Mystic: MKULTRA, The Strange Story of Sally Hartman

Richard Dolan on Underground Bases

BP Updates on Octopus Confessional

It seems that daily, at least once a day, comes more news of what BP, and our own government, are doing in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's take over of that part of the country, several U.S. governmental agencies at BP's bidding, acting as BP's personal and very private security force, continued denied access to media -- and politicians -- the strangely silent and absent presence of the British government, the heavy handed (and illegal) tactics used against the local citizenry . . . all these, and so much more, are on-going assaults against not only our country, but the planet.

I've been updating and commenting as I am able on my blog Octopus Confessional.  Or, of course, you can enter "oil spill," or other like minded combinations of terms on Google, and that will give you the pop-up links at the top to the BP site, where they have utterly audacious and surreal propaganda pages on what's allegedly "really" going on. For as anyone who's been following this tragedy knows, BP has paid Google the bucks to ensure that people who type in those afore mentioned terms are led directly to the BP site. And if you don't like my blog, fine, there are plenty of blogs, YouTube videos (like James Fox), and journalists who can give you the information.

Do something, pray, chant, mediate, blog, scream, rant, agitate, protest, send intent, focus, tell, witness, share ... something, anything, but don't, please, act as if "it isn't that bad." Because it is.

Sinkholes, Earth Shifts? Have a Beer: Marginalizing Earth Changes

I'm fascinated by the weird disconnect some exhibit towards the subversive, surreal or anomalous. Even while acknowledging -- for how can one not, it's literally staring you in the face with physical evidence -- strange occurrences, some people trivialize the incredible. Here's an example from the UK's Telegraph; an article by Peter Foster:Are there any reasonable explanations for spectacular sinkholes in China?

The sinholes aren't in question; China has been experiencing a weird series of sinkholes lately, confirmed by photographs.  Combined with the sinkhole in Guatamala, as well as the general and dramatic earth activity we've been witness to recently globally,  something profound is happening. How we interpret "profound" is up to us, but it's ignorant, I suppose, and irresponsible, to ignore what's happening. In our despair, our panic, our confusion, our attempt to both face what's happening and then respond, we offer up answers. As Foster reports, the Chinese and  speculate on the causes of the sinkholes:

Closer and closer to 2012” warned one commenter on the Netease platform. “Will what was the ocean become land and what is now land become the ocean?,” asked another. “Do aliens come out of these holes?,” questioned a third.
On and on the comments go: “God is very angry with earthlings polluting behavior and has decided to punish earthlings,” said a fourth, and “Let’s organize ourselves and quickly go to Tibet to find the ark,” enjoins a fifth.

And so on. Foster does admit feeling uneasy about the literal shifting of our planet:

. . . looking at the pictures, I half-share their collective shiver of anticipation that these things are unnatural portents of catastrophe.

Quoting more speculations and theories found on the internet, Foster concludes:

That’s if you like that sort of thing. Me, I’m off for a beer while I wait for the earth to swallow me up.

I just wonder what was the point of this piece? I suppose one of my coping mechanisms to the forever -life -changing global events is a paranoid response to pieces like this. Marginalizing the strange is shallow and ignorant, but is it also a distraction, an intentional disinformation campaign? Some days I wonder if that isn't the case.

Somewhat round about related note: watching one of our three local news channels last night, I was not surprised, but nonetheless astounded, that the lead story was about a local college football player's explusion from the team. That was big news, not BP and their crimes in the gulf. After about fifteen minutes of sports as lead in and some other local stuff, there was about 60 seconds worth of middle of the road "news" on the oil spill. No commentary, just news wire stuff.

What's my point? I'm not sure; sadness, fear, helplessness, outrage, anger, confusion, ... easy to understand denial and flip, trivial crap like the above article, or fanatical responses to local athletics. But while I can understand, to a point, some of that response, I don't get it, and can't excuse it. DO something; rant, pray, scream, but wake up.

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