tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55302162009-02-20T16:12:05.176-08:00With the War on Terror and various other news issues taking up all of the limelight as of late, one of my old passions, UFO's Real and Imagined, has been at a low heartbeat. This blog is meant to be a small crash cart in an otherwise quiet area of investigation.Craignoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5530216.post-1135277285637991342005-12-22T10:46:00.000-08:002005-12-22T10:49:33.420-08:00

(My apologies to those of you who may have been waiting to hear more on this case. As reality will have it, the coming end of the year has been a very busy time on all accounts, so it has taken me much longer to get back to this. However, back I am.)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Now, there are a number of things that stand out very

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Hello folks. Modern life is getting in the way of truly explaining this story at the moment. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get my thoughts posted.Sorry for the wait...

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I thought that before I go into a technological dissertation on why the case below is so interesting to me, I might condense it for folks to read. It’s really an intriguing case.The Portage County UFO ChaseApril 17, 1966~5:00amLinks:1. The synopsis I have condensed for discussion: http://ufologie.net/htm/portage66.htm2. Richard Hall’s report for NICAP: http://ufologie.net/htm/portage66hall.htm#

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I don't have time to do a full entry here, but suffice it to say, the Portage County UFO case is one of the more intriguing accounts I've heard in my short time as a Ufologist. It involves multiple law-enforcement witnesses, extensive documentation by NICAP, and investigation forced upon Major Hector Quintanilla of Project Blue Book.Hynek went into enough specifics (and some intrigue) to

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You ask most folks, and UFO’s mean to them “flying saucers”. Never mind the fact that the original appellation was meant to convey the motion of the crescent-shaped objects sighted by Kenneth Arnold in the summer of 1947. Arnold likened them to “saucers skipping on water”, and of course, they were in a formation flight. However, in the media’s ever-intensifying quest to simplify events, the two

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On the UFOUpdates mailing list, there has been some discussion of how to “get the message out” regarding Ufology. Of course, we’ve been trying to tell non-ufologists what we are looking into for years, so this is not a new question. Of course, it periodically becomes a rediscovered one, and we are staring the beast in the face once again.Truly, how do we inform the public of why we investigate

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In a recent comment to UFO Glow the term "Stochastic" was used to describe the normal excitation colors in nature, such as that by lightning energizing the atmosphere. For the casual readers of this blog, I thought it might be a term worthy of definition. (I confess that I had to look it up myself.)From Wikipedia: "An example of a stochastic process in the natural world is pressure in a gas. Even

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In reference to the colors of UFO plasmas, it is to be noted that Paul Hill made some interesting commentary on the subject.Often reported is an object glowing red orange on the bottom surface, with a silver-blue plume of sorts below or around that feature. The yellow-red or orange ionization spectra are of a lower energy, affecting the oxygen in the atmosphere. Continuing on from there, the

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One of Paul Hill's major points in UFO sighting history is an apparent use of cyclical field energies in propulsion and manuvering. The energies would be locally quite enormous to produce the operational antics that have been reported, and those energies must follow the laws of conservation. In doing so, a great deal of that energy must be dissapated into the atmosphere, which would produce an

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I’m still slowly churning through Intruders, folks. Budd is indicating that the abduction phenomenon is not always, or even typically, isolated to the individual abductee. Indeed, it seems that large numbers of people, including and up to whole communities may be affected by these activities.Without getting into the whole spectrum of experiences known with abduction, it seems possible that

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Upon further reading of Intruders, another incident was reported near the Davis home. During the summer of 1983, “Martha Elkins”, a neighbor of both the Davis’ and the Lloyd’s, was awakened by a loud roaring sound outside. Fearing that a plane was about to crash into her house, she immediately got up and ran to her window. While Ms. Elkins didn't see anything of note outside at the time, she did

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In Budd Hopkin’s book, Intruders, he notes on page 35 of my copy that certain physiological effects of a particular abduction seem to be those of radiation exposure. The symptoms described by Kathy Davis at her home include such things as nausea, dizziness, hair loss, etc. Also, the grass and other plants in the area of a reported UFO landing exhibited certain anomalous changes hinting at some

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Here's a thought: Some of the material reportedly recovered by Jesse Marcel from the Roswell debris field was very resilient. There were structural segments that couldn't be burned or cut, and there was even a sheet of what we would now call memory metal that could be wadded up like so much trash and it would return to flat. No wrinkles.I occurred to me that this sort of stuff might just be what

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I think I will take on Fact #5:It exhibits light emission and absorption.In Pauls Hill's book, Unconventional Flying Objects, he takes on the visual effects of UFO's and puts an understandable face onto what people see. In a nutshell, the glows and flows of light often reported during UFO encounters would be a plasma induced by the propulsion fields exerted by the craft. In other words, despite

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UFO UpDates is going ballistic on poor Bob Renaud and his demand for ufological “facts”, though with the attitude he's been copping, he should not be at all surprised. For me, I’ve had my own response to him there, and now I’m back here to address a first set of “facts”. Consider this a raw beginning for the actual, final List of 58:In most cases involving a craft there is direct evidence, i.e.,

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Bob Renaud on the UFO Updates mailing list has issued an intriguing challenge to Ufology:On Tuesday, June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disk- shaped objectswhile flying near Mount Rainier, Washington. Today, Monday, August 15, 2005, is58 years, 1 month, and 22 days - or if you wish, 21,237 days - later. Ergo, the'modern era' of Ufology is approaching its sixth decade. My question:

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June 24th, 1947 marks the day when businessman and civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold changed the face of the UFO phenomenon. And quite unintentionally, to boot. Arnold was returning to his home after a business trip when he caught word that a missing C-46 marine transport plane had been downed somewhere in the Yakima, Washington area. As a good and generous man, he made a detour to assist with an

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Back in the latter days of 1968, Dr. Thornton Page wrote the following as part of a paper in a symposium called UFO's: A Scientific Debate: "At Present it is fair to say that the attitude towards UFO's is highly polarized between the conservative views of a small group of senior physical scientists and the vastly more speculative views of a large part of the American public." A few weeks ago, I

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Josh at the Unknown Country Message Board sent along this interesting article on the state of Ufology today. There are two links: http://www.freewebs.com/ufoscience/ http://www.freedomofinfo.org/media/Fighing_The_Fear_Factor.pdf

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I've embarked on a project to start dissecting the book, UFO's - A Scientific Debate, which was a published set of papers and lectures presented at Cornell University in 1968. The main names most associated with that conference are Carl Sagan and Thornton Page. The tone of the book is, for the most part, fairly negative in terms of the UFO subject having any validity. A few items stand out on

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Whilst perusing the history of the UFO subject, a big fact jumped out at me: July 1952 holds the distinction of being the densest reporting period for UFO's in history. Typically, the month of July is also a peak month for a number of meteor showers, which certainly played into the '52 flap. But not to the levels then, nor since.

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On this date in 1947, it is generally assumed that the real informational denial of the existence of the Roswell disk, or of anything else interesting, began in earnest. As the popular view holds, the witnesses involved were intimidated and otherwise sworn to secrecy over the matter.

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General Ramey tries to pour some cold water on the Flying Disk Story: Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer Mac Brazel has a "change of heart" of sorts, as well: Harassed Rancher Who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About It Of course, ol' Mac hung tough - He wouldn't quite deny everything: "I am sure that what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he [Mac] said. "But if I find

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At 11:00am, Colonel Blanchard dictates a press release on the recovery of a flying disk to Press Information Officer (PIO) Walter Haut., who goes into town and delivers it to Frank Joyce at radio station KGFL. The Roswell Record newspaper also ran the following story: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region The ball begins to roll.

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On July 4th, 1947, Mac Brazel discovered a large amount of lightweight, metallic debris (the crashed Roswell flying saucer) on a remote pasture of the Foster Ranch.

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