I hate Tony Bragalia's Socorro hoax theory but .....

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Although I've linked Anthony Bragalia's Socorro hoax posting at this blog, and have submitted myself to the raging discussion of it at Kevin Randle's blog, I find Tony's suggestion to be imaginatively deduced.

The 1964 sighting by Police Officer Zamora seems too complicated to have been generated by a raft of college punks.

But let's suppose that the 1964 contingent of students at The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology were able to produce a prank worthy of creating an iconic UFO sighting that ufologists continue to conjure with today.

Would such vibrant students want to highlight their prankish trickery by noting (representing) their college identity or fraternity upon the "craft" that they supposedly created to fool their nemesis, Officer Zamora, as Mr. Bragalia contends?

Here are some frat insigniae that resemble the symbol that Officer Zamora allegedly saw and drew:

Now, here is the Zamora drawing of the symbol he saw on the egg-shaped craft and the representations of the Zamora symbol provided by others, including the errant inverted V that Ray Stanford brought into play, confusing the matter for all of us:

And then there is the New Mexico Tourism Bureau symbol:

So, you can see that the Socorro incident has more to contend with, if it were worthwhile to do so, but you know my feeling(s) on that.

RR

Incipient Madness (in ufology and society)

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Catching, by accident (I assure you), Destination America this morning [12/12], I saw and took in two segments: one on John Keel and one on The Men in Black (flush with insight by my pal Nick Redfern).

The John Keel program made clear, subliminally, that Mr. Keel descended into a state of madness, shortly after his successful work (and book, The Mothman Prophecies) on the eerie episodes in Point Pleasant, West Virginia from November 1967 through 1968.

The Men in Black hour, highlighting tales about the so-called mysterious visitors who are said to quietly terrorize UFO witness and about whom Nick Redfern has a popular book, was, as usual with Destination America, sensationalized, tamped down by Nick’s cogent, journalistic commentary.

The DA programs support my ongoing notes here that madness (insanity) permeates society and is rampant, even if imperceptible to many, in the UFO community.

The subtlety of madness in society is rather obvious to alert observers. But in the UFO community, madness is disguised by the inherent lunacy that the phenomenon itself overlays interactions and actions by UFO buffs.

I’ve written extensively elsewhere that human behavior is often (generally) crazy, citing examples that Nick Redfern has pooh­-poohed, Nick, himself, as sane as anyone I know quick to defend crazy behavior, much that is blatant.

But many of Nick’s buddies and persons I know in the UFO community are at the edge of madness and display signs of that madness in what they write and do online (and, in their private lives too).

For example, the bulk of the contributors to the History channel’s Ancient Alien shows are palpably off kilter, some showing their near insanity with facial posturings, when they talk, that any psychiatrist can see as a prelude to out-and-out madness. I won’t name them.

And I won’t name those in the UFO community who offer evidence for their insipient, even overt, mental slippage.

But those of you who remain sane (mentally normal) can, if diligent, discern the madness that I see (and note).

Many books and commentators are coming to grips about the “madness” that permeates Facebook,  one of those books – Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media (by Marcus Gilroy-Ware) – is really on point, as are a  few regulars to CBNC who are warning about the societal debilitation of Facebook on humanity, democracy, and sanity such as venture capitalist John Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive who, just today [12/12], spurned Facebook:

https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/technology/a-former-facebook-executive-says-social-media-is-bad-for-everyone/

Madness is rampant, sub rosa for many UFO die-hards who refuse to see it in their community, just as most in society (especially Facebookers) refuse to acknowledge madness all round them.

RR

The First Men in Black?

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Nick Redfern, in a Destination America repeat show from 2015, said that the alleged men who visited Harold Dahn of the Maury Island incident of 1947 were the first “men in black.”

The first “Men in Black” actually appear in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Genesis 18:2.

This is the Biblical episode where three “angels” or two “angels” and God appear to Abraham, to announce the birth of Isaac.

Yes, the heavenly creatures are not dressed in black – the appearance was in the desert after all – but their demeanor and messaging was not unlike that of the modern Men in Black.

It seems that unusual persons (men and women) show up at various times in history.

Albert Rosales, in his Humanoid series, recounts the appearances of men and women who warn or impart information to witnesses in a number of instances, many after or during a UFO event and some just to beg for attention or prayerful sustenance as most of the Marian appearances tell us.

Visitors who show up in the face of or at locales of persons who’ve seen a UFO or who are just going about their lives are plentiful when one scours literature or news accounts.

Nick’s Men in Black are of the eerie, often threatening type, but there a lot of others who just show up unannounced to provide a message of some kind.

The message(s) from Mary, the mother of Christ supposedly, are self-serving, odd pleas for worship mostly.

Now. why would an entity from Heaven or afterlife seek ego-gratification, using innocent or mentally challenged individuals – young girls mostly – to ask for attention?

Such requests, like those from the Men in Black who ask for silence from UFO witnesses, are cringe-worthy. Nick’s book(s) about the Men in Black present countless visitations that are surely cringe-worthy, but the requests from alleged heavenly creatures are often as cringe-worthy, as one can see by reading details enumerated in the many Marian tales that have surfaced over the years (and continue to do so).

So, Nick’s Men in Black are scary (even lethal in some instances) so he (Nick) is correct when he says that the Dahl visitors are the first Men in Black who were dressed in black and threatening.

But Abraham’s visitors and those Marian appearances can be considered in the same vein as Nick’s Men in Black, not dressed in black or threatening but just as spooky when one thinks about it.

N.B. Lest some think I’m being disrespectful of Mary, the mother of Jesus/Christ, I am a member of The Legion of Mary, in perpetuum.

RR