UFOs (and related) Text Resources Thread

Please post links to text files (journal papers, Web articles, etc.) here.

Don't want to steal the thunder from my friend and fellow member, Psiclops, but I'll post this links which he sent to me by email and posted on Facebook.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ins...mg00000003

Can we handle the truth?

I'm pretty skeptical about Tom DeLonge. Let's wait and see.

Alien abductee Betty Hill exposed as a bit of a storyteller:
https://badufos.blogspot.com/2018/07/bet...ebris.html

Courtesy of the Anomalist - here's a review by Håkan Blomqvist of the biography of a prolific UFO and paranormal researcher by Brent Raynes entitled "John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and The Ongoing Mysteries":
https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2019/08...going.html

The SPR website has a positive review by Ciaran Farrell of Peter A. McCue's book "Britain’s Paranormal Forests: Encounters in the Woods," published last year and dealing with a variety of phenomena, including UFOs and cryptozoology:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/britai...eter-mccue

[Laird]

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, an article by Mitch Horowitz Reclaiming the Damned, subtitled "Toward a new understanding of Bigfoot, flying saucers, leprechauns and other inconvenient realities".

Mitch covers a lot in this article - more than just UFOs, so its posting in this thread is somewhat arbitrary - including theories as to why we experience strange beings:

This returns us to the observation that Jacques Vallée made about UFOs probably being some kind of inter-dimensional manifestation, which enter our awareness intermittently and then vanish. There may exist an infinitude, or superposition, of events occurring all the time and everywhere, which we are capable of measuring or experiencing only intermittently (such as in the cases of documentary imagery), fractionally, or at periods of extreme sensitivity, in the same way that ESP or telekinesis may manifest at highly receptive moments. This ties into the question of psychical energies being unleashed during instances of trauma or crisis or intensity.

Leaving aside the question of freewill (another issue entirely), what I’ve described raises the possibility that these persistent, extraordinary events — sightings of everything from serpents in the water, to mysterious winged beasts, to otherworldly beings, to gnomes, to Bigfoot — may be the result of perspective and of these things intermittently localizing in our reality.

A related possibility comes from what is called string theory.

Anomalous entities exist, but they exist at other points on a vibrating, cosmic string, or what we might call another dimension. That’s one theory. Another, not necessarily at odds with string theory, is that these anomalies occupy a state of superposition which you select into your locality — not manifest but select, which is my preferred term — through perspective.

Also very interesting later in the article are two experiences he had recently in Egypt which he shares:

As I laid hands on this bull, I experienced, call it what you will, a tremendous rush of lightning and electricity shooting through my body, and I felt this sense of inner light within me. The only phrasing I can use to describe it is just feeling this flash of lightning pass through me. It was an extraordinary and tactile experience.

Of course, one could say, “Look, you’re a suggestible guy, you’re an excitable person.” I don’t know, nor would the person saying that know, just what occurred. But I can only report that it was, for me, a palpable experience. Here I stood before this magnificent allegorical beast carved in a bas-relief going back more than 3,000 years, still fully colorized and vivid, and the symbol of virility and strength and power, and I was invited to lay my hands on it. I felt lightning absolutely pass through me. It was one of the most remarkable experiences of my life.

We were guided to kneel at the feet of Sekhmet and were invited to kiss her feet and lay our hands upon her body and recite a prayer. We performed this short ceremony in pitch blackness. This, too, was an experience of absolute transcendence. There seemed to be a complete dissolution between us as separate beings and the goddess before whom we kneeled. I think we both experienced a sense of dissolving, almost like a lightness of body that felt something like what an out-of-body experience might be like. We just felt a complete disassociation crouched in the darkness before this goddess. We felt, you could say, almost a sense of transcendent oneness with the before us, and everything briefly entered a state of non-physicality. It was remarkable.

[Laird]

An article in The Altamont Enterprise ‘The research is really only just starting,’ UAlbany prof says of UFOs covers the UFO interest of the associate professor of physics at the University of Albany Kevin Knuth (he is also "a former scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration").

Discussing the lack of research on UFOs and UFO encounters, Knuth said that interest in UFOs fell victim to a “circular logic” where, because it felt so unscientific, many scientists wouldn’t touch the subject, leading to a reinforcement of the idea that interest in UFOs was solely the purview of pseudoscientists and conspiracy theorists.

Before the coronavirus hit, Knuth was scheduled to give a lecture at the Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, where he would have presented the findings of his most recent study into the acceleration patterns of some of these unidentified crafts, which he says are up to 5,000 times the acceleration of gravity and indicate an unnatural, and inhuman, origin.

Knuth is a member of both UAP eXpeditions and the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. UAP eXpeditions will soon be renting two vessels to navigate an area of the Pacific Ocean that is considered a UFO hotspot, and is near where the U.S.S. Nimitz had an infamous paranormal encounter in 2004.

Independently, Knuth is also working on simulations that help him predict where these crafts might originate from within the universe, the findings of which Knuth said were only preliminary due to the rudimentary nature of the simulations.

[Laird]

Megaplatanos: The Greek Roswell, from the Ghost Theory blog:

Intro:

Megaplatanos is a small village situated an hour and a half drive just outside the city of Athens, Greece. Like most Greek villages, it is home to mainly shepherds and farmers that toil in the fields and mountains from dawn to dusk. On September 2nd, 1990, around 9 at night, half a dozen strange lights were seen in the sky by a few villagers who happened to be outside and looking up at the sky. It was a group of 5 or 6 unidentified flying objects coming in from the north, with one of the aircraft flying erratically. The witnesses claimed to see strange lights being omitted by the craft in trouble, forcing it to loose altitude and eventually crash into the side of a nearby mountain. The crash in Megaplatanos is known as Greece’s own Roswell incident.

First para of the conclusion:

Unlike the 1947 incident at Roswell, New Mexico, the supposed UFO crash in Greece had almost no press coverage. This makes researching the case difficult as none of the original UFO investigators have shared their findings with the rest of the world. Greece, with its ancient splendor and rich historical and cultural accomplishments, has yet to fully embrace the modern age era. It’s the place I now call my home.

Make of this article what you will. I have not heard of this event before and can't vouch for the accuracy (or otherwise) of the article.

[Laird]

Red Pill Junkie over on The Daily Grail has posted ON THE TRAIL OF UFOS (WEB SERIES REVIEW), a very sympathetic review of Small Town Monsters’ On the Trail of UFOs.

More than a “UFOlogy 101” or “Top Ten Cases” approach, On the Trail of UFOs chooses instead to explore the ways UFOs and close encounters have shaped our culture in the past, and continues to do so as the phenomenon morphs from will-o-the-wisps to airships to flying saucers to black triangles and now white Tic-Tacs. Instead of remaining in the eternal square one of: “are UFOs real?,” the series is willing to ask deeper questions, like: “what does it mean to have an ongoing UFO presence?” (i.e. ‘it’ exists so what do we do about it?).

Because that is another thing which characterizes my friends –and the rest of the featured researchers, for that matter: Neither of them pretend to offer ANY ultimate answer to this mystery, and in this regard the tone of On the Trail of UFOs remains pleasantly agnostic throughout all the series. There’s no attempt to validate any particular theory over another, and all of them (ETH, interdimensional, time travelers, black projects, Earth lights, etc) are explored dispassionately, acknowledging the fact that there are problems with ALL the theories, and that putting a label on a thing is very different from actually understanding the thing

If anything, the common denominator in the perspective offered by the show and its ‘talking heads’ is: the best approach to better understand UFOs is paying attention to how they impact the lives of those who have been fortunate or unfortunate enough to encounter them. Putting the focus back on the people and asking them how their sighting changed their political, philosophical and religious perspectives, how they might have strained their marriages or professional careers, might be more fruitful than continuing to fill file cabinets with reports in which only the ‘exoteric’ elements of the mystery are considered –e.g.  the shape and size of the object, its color, trajectory, etc.