Ufology needs open minded skepticism. Duh.

Let's get one thing straight that never gets straight. Being skeptical is GOOD if you really want to find some answers. Especially in the UFO world. I commonly hear "the skeptics" in a negative way and in the Stanton Friedman way it is termed" noisy negativists". And in many ways he seems suspect to his own "rules". Not that Stan hasn't done good work and opened the eyes of many to the UFO possibilities, but that those possibilities are those of his own conclusions and not exactly balance by other negativists if you want to call them that.

Now there is a difference between a non-thinking debunker and a skeptic. Non-thinking debunkers are those that just go through a laundry list of why ANY UFO is bunk. These debunkers and true believers are basically in the same boat. They have beliefs of how things are and they are bullet-proof to anything else. There are many of these in the UFO world. And none of them can impart any useful information in this study.

But then there is a narrower band of thinkers and researchers that merges towards centrism. The true open minded skeptic. The person that weighs heavily on skepticism but maintains an open mind to all possibilites. There is no such person. You either lean towards UFO's being real or not, even if the lean is a precarious little tilt. But the thing is, that most official groups are not very diversified. The opinions tend to fall squareley on one side or the other. Like minds tend to gather together and they seem to have no sense of checking themselves or their conclusions.


This is a problem for truth. Or at least those that want productive progress in the ufological field. No matter the difference of opinion these people (skeptics and co-called believers) need to somehow unite. Maybe they don't need to hold hands daily and they don't necessarily have to like each other, but it might serve as a great library of information and opinion. This type of forum, where skeptics, pro or con on the existance of UFO's, would intelligently and courteously present data. They would come to conclusions together to try and solve this thing. This would give the best opinion and data supporting the reality of UFO's.

We need the skeptics as our checks and balances. Then we may begin to understand how data can produce drastictly different results. We never seem to have the forums that present both sides of a topic. This is exactly what we need. Both sides. Because when you have both sides, even if they may be opposed, you have a better chance of reaching a centered and reasonable conclusion than having heard only one version. Period.

Here is a list of things that may help solve this impossible mystery. It is just food for thought, but if I could present some guidelines or rules that allow for understanding the people involved and an avenue for exporing such topics.

1. All members must pass lie detector tests or battery of tests. This may inhibit people making wild claims and those that do will need to pass this test validating, if only in their minds, their claims.

2. All members background and financial status must be disclosed, verified, and openly distributed on request. This stuff may be invasive but can be an important consideration when judging the nature and integrity of a person. Certainly this isn't everything, but people should know.

3. I think that even their beliefs on many topics should be disclosed as well. This is just an intensive and scutinizing way of organizing a productive group and I think, at this point, it may be needed. Not that there beliefs are even wrong, but from this information we can know where they are shooting from. Again, just something we should know.

4. Open and non-threatening way of meeting, discussing, presenting and compiling of data, and starting to form a "group" opinion using tools of science and deductive reason.

5. Peer review is only possible when such a group has operated cooperatively and congruently in a way that forms a more unified consensus on cases and presented evidence. This would take a number of years at least to consistenly come up with enough "heads in the mix" so to speak for a longer tenure to establish the validity and respectability of having competent peers review their work.

I know that I will have a lot more to say about this topic, but at this point I will at least get some of these ideas out onto the blog. Yeah the blog that no one reads, but nonetheless, it is there if only for me to think and rethink. To form logical opinions on how we may be able to undress the mysteriously cloaked enigma that is ufology.

Real UFO's, but no one cares

I listen to podcasts. I read any "news" on ufology. I follow some sightings. I read some blogs. I look to the so-called informed and sensible to educate me. Ufology is a strange underworld of many subsets and many different conclusions. But one thing that I NEVER hear or read about is Hessdalen. Hessdalen, Norway is where the UFO's are, for real. But it seems no one cares.

This is a place where strange unidentified lights have appeared and studied for at least 25 years. The lights are so strange that there are different categories of lights because the phenomenon seems to change it's "manifestation" from time to time. The lights appear in an assortment of different colors. Some lights morph into different shapes. The lights are mostly seen at night, but have been seen in the daylight as well. Sometimes the objects will hover only to speed up and move. Sometimes they move erratically and sometimes they drift down into the valleys.

This stuff isn't imagination. It is REAL. It has been documented. It continues to be documented by several groups of students in search of the meaning and implications of the phenomena. What is it? How could we benefit from it? How and why does the energy manifest itself? What could this tell us about the nature and interplay of environment and man? Most of all, how can we begin to understand something so enigmatic??

So why aren't we paying attention? These are true phenomena. There seems to be adequate sightings involving lights that pulse and move and hover and so on. Sounds similar to Hessdalen, a place we can actually go to and arduously and laboriously study. Yet we never hear an inkling about this phenomena. If what we are after is the truth, then why can't we begin to do just that?

I guess it isn't spectacular enough. Maybe it is too hard to sensationalize itand, well, sell it. I mean we don't have people with this universal feeling of wholeness. We don't have anyone being probed or at least communicated with. B-o-r-i-n-g, b-o-r-i-n-g. We don't have metallic craft hovering over the magnificent Swiss mountainside. Perhaps it is even mundane. But perhaps it is mundane and sublime altogether. Perhaps we are turning our investigative backs on this phenomena because it doesn't support our idea of what Ufology is all about. But what is it about?

Doesn't seem to matter. Instead we continue to have countless researchers still investigate to most mythical piece of ufology available. Roswell. At this point we can't even agree who is doing the research. And we are supposed to get at the truth of it? Are we really truthseekers? Unless there is some governmental revelation involving disclosure (um, sure) we will never know. and we will continue to grow stories out of the personality mill.

Meanwhile Hessdalen sits. Shrouded in snowy blankets. Watched by a few kids, a scientist (Erling Strand), and some photoactivated cameras. True UFO activity. It's just that maybe this is a little too close to the truth. And we certainly wouldn't want that would we?

CNN report UFO conference 12 november 2007

You'll see by the commentary that perhaps ufology is gaining ground. We see Nicole Lapin, I think, embarass herself. And Gary Tuchman sort of makes sense of the matter, while throwing in the required ubiquitous jab.

Mind Reading

How long do you think it will be until we can watch our dream in HD?? I mean literally to visually watch what you dreamed last night.

In the future we will have perfected the dream reenactment. Among other things that is. Of course I think this is far far into the future.

Read this article

This open flood gates. I've suspected this for some time now. This is a way into someone's mind. Physically. We can and will learn how to better read brain waves and interpret them. Thoughts are things! And things can be seen in a sense and possibily read. Sorry I meant read. And just that will happen. We can and will be able to control things with our thoughts when we figure this out. It will begin as a novelty where we can open and close the garage door or change the channel on the TV. But then it will turn to a more inimical nature. We will see the dark side of knowing too much. For some this will have been the intended purpose all along. This will give us the ability to control, change, and for a large part, manufacture our environment.

And as we learn to read minds, this opens a slew of categorical ethical questions. Whose property is the mind and how can it be soley owned and inhabited? Shall we jump into a killers mind? A rapist? How will this affect crime and prevention of devious or, god forbid, national security type behavior. Will we choose to invade the minds of society in an effort to regulate thought?

This is scary territory and it is a reality. A reality that may bring us a higher scaffold of knowledge. And perhaps a higher aggresiveness of those in pursuit of power. What if Hitler had won?? What if Saddam won?? Understanding the mind is understanding how to control. Because if we can learn how they work, then we can learn how to change them to our liking. And everyones liking is different.

By the way the movies will be great. Especially last nights dream. Just don't be too curious and start watching your wifes dreams as well.

Bigfoot News

I don't know if bigfoot exists or not. I've been in remote areas before and there is a lot of land that is basically not travelled. I think it would be possible for such a creature to subsist, but there seems to be overwhelmingly lacking data. Maybe for good reason. And there have been a few newsworthy items I have come across recently.

1. A hunter in Pennsylvania acquired some motion activated pictures that are quite odd, whether Bigfoot or not. As you look at the pictures they are weird. Immediately some of the bigfoot people stated turning to this as proof as the giant hairy one. Apparently the beast has adopted yoga as a pastime. The sensible forest rangers are calling this a bear with mange. This seems to make sense as you compare with the picture of a bear with mange.

Now a recent poll of a popular bigfoot forum showe that a majority of Bigfooters side with the sensible bear with mange. But there still appears to some believers that won't dismiss this. They seem to think that it is a healthy primate. Even though we can see the resemblance in the photos. And also considering bears were photographed by the same camera about a half hour earlier. And there were only cubs present. Maybe this was Momma. Or Throw Mama from the Train.

Despite most people considering this a misidentification, this will be remembered as an episode where the bigfoot crazies tried to pass this off as bigfoot. Unfortunately in these types of fields, respectable people don't get partitioned from the wackos. The serious ones will keep looking and researching while the believers, well, do just that, believe.

2. I've only seen one episode, but the new MonsterQuest on the History channel was quite interesting. Of course this episode was on Bigfoot. I never give these shows too much credibility as they are intended to get ratings. I did like this episode and it left me with a number of questions.

To sum it up the crew was led by someone respectable, Dr Jeff Meldrum. They stayed 5 days in a remote Canadien cabin known for activity in the past. The found and recovered some DNA from an old blood-stained nail board used to prevent bears from breaking in. They also recovered hair and tissue samples. The tissue was thrown out because it did not appear to have enough sequences to do anything with. The hair turned out to be "close to human, but not entirely human". And the blood needs to undergo further time and money consuming tests if anything is to come of it. In addition to this, there were rocks thrown at the cabin on the last night. Who threw them?? Who knows, but no one stayed outside to investigate or film. There were supposedly cameras all over the place but pictures of this mystery throwing wasn't captured.

The episode was enticing and different. I liked it but on a serious note there are many unanswered questions. I'm sure there will be lots of aftermath in the bigfoot world about this, especially since Meldrum was involved. I tend to think some theatrical and hidden things were happening unbeknownst to Meldrum and others. I wonder how this will play out, there is already a lot of talk about it.

Where is the Evidence for UFO's

Where is it??

Where are the bonafide pictures, videos, physical pieces?? Where is the data that verifies the existance and appearance of something weird?

The UFO world seems to be constructed of blurry pictures, photoshop projects, unknown metallic pieces, and testimonies numbering in the thousands. But how do we convince whoever we are trying to convince?? There never seems to be any real solid proof. And I think many ufologists would love to continue this.

As I conjure up thoughts of anything I would deem having credibility I think of cases like Iran 1976, Rendlesham, Belgium triangles, Phoenix lights, Shag harbor, Malmstrom, and on and on and on. In each of these cases the evidence is sketchy. But there is still some compelling stuff. Enough to at least try to investigate and get at what truth might be there.

Skeptics would dismiss cases based on sketchy evidence, and rightly so. But I think there may be more to this phenomenon than just pure empirical evidence. There seems to be a sort of tie in with perception and congnition with the supposed craft or encounter. We keep trying to separate belief and rational scientific proof. I wonder if belief is a part of the whole phenomenon in some way. This thought seems to sprout an tangled medusa of alternative ideas. Maybe we are indeed creating the whole phenomena. Not that the encounters aren't percieved as real, but perhaps our consciousness and psyche manifest these enigmas.

If this is the case, I don't know that we will ever gather useful evidence. Perhaps we need to undergo another or several intellectual jumps to be able to comprehend what is actually happenining. I suppose this would be evolutionary in a sense as our brain chemistry at least would change. And as we begin to merge ourselves, even biologically, with newer technologies we may become less like Dr Frankenstein and more like God.

But as this stems into another conversation we are left with little evidence. Very fragmented, unverified, undetermined, unconvincing data. It is as if it were a game. Just like when I play magician with my kids. I'm terrible but convincing to them. And perception really is reality. If I wanted to I could convince them that I am doing real magic. And never unveil my tactics. If I wanted to. And taking a closer look at genuine ufology, it seems to me that maybe something is maybe doing just that. Or perhaps they are lazily and irresponsibly meandering about their way in the multiverse and are seen. Or perhaps yada yada yada. To the rabbithole we go.

And to those that claim to have this great physical life-changing, paradigm shifting, evidence stop "saving it for the right time" and show it already. Where are the alien implants and who is testing them?? Where is the metal that reshapes itself?? And if the metal reshapes it self, why didn't the craft mend itself wholly?? Where is all the great evidence claimed???? Some one show it !!! Until that happens we will live in the same foggy underworld of charlattans and alien babies. Of reptilians and Zeta Reticuli. We may never get any where in this popular culture meets truthseekers. Not "The Truthseeker", but real truthseekers.

Where do I stand on ufology?

My observations of ufology as an armchair type guy. Just confessing my ignorance.
1. UFO's exist, but who's to say what they are? ET, unknown energies, hoaxes, misidentified, multidimensional, psyche. Hard to tell but would warrant objective scientific investigation. Ha, ha. All joking aside, UFO's are something, whether mundane or not.

2. Disclosure is not the way. What would the government disclose and what would be witheld? And how would anyone know? There's lots to say on disclosure, but I'll suffice it to say that lack of proof and engrained predispositions seem to hurt this movement. Now I will say that other countries leading the "disclosure" movement may ultimately put pressure on the US. Possibly, but I think not. And if they were bombarded enough that they might release some softball type of report. And what if the know, but they don't know what the hell it is?? How would the disclosure people react if UFO's are drastically different then what they expect?? Like I said, lots to talk about.

3. Stephen Greer seems to be Dr Jeckyl, Mr Outrageous Duality. I mean his claims are so extensivley preposterous it takes away tremendously from any good he has done. And I think the 2001 National Press Club was the best possible turning event at the worst possible time with the worst possible ringleader. Some of the testimonies are compelling. So he's done good and bad, well, maybe mostly bad.

4. Billy Meier UFO's are obviously hoaxed. I don't really need the story and the rants and the cultist mentality. There is very good evidence. THE PICTURES. Do you remember watching Mr Rogers when they went into the little tunnel and came into this miniature world??

5. There's a lot of shows to listen to but many aren't asking the right questions. It's as if we care to just perpetuate this whole field. Let people talk and talk and spew and spew out garbage until the show ends. I want the proof, I want the truth, I want the real scoop. Don't insult my lack of intelligence with your phony, sell a book, made up, theory. I guess at this point I stop listening anyway. Unless its the Paracast. They ask the right questions.

6. There seems to be a paradoxal duality with our society. We accept supernatural belief, but only if doesn't conflict with current paradigms. We accept religion, but dismiss UFO's. We pray. We believe in life after death. A path to (insert your favorite afterlife here). A bunch of old writings that some people base their entire lives on. I guess the will to believe is somewhere inside us. The will to believe is embedded at some level deep in our DNA. I guess maybe we do it to get through life. Anyway, maybe their is something to the meaning of life and maybe there isn't. But the fact remains that it is OK to talk about these issues, even publically, but it is not OK to talk about UFO's. Alien life. Advanced life. Aliens are perhaps more probable than god. But I suppose they can't offer us eternal life. Whoops, forgot about heavens gate.

The aliens have taken me. Goodbye for now.