Bruce Maccabee's new book about the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting

Copyright 2018, InterAmerica, Inc. 

I’m just now reading Bruce Maccabee’s book Three Minutes in June: the UFO sighting that changed the world [Richard Dolan Press, Rochester, NY, 2017].

I’m only into the first few pages so a detailed excursion into the content will have to wait.

(The Anomalist’s Bill Murphy noted a review of the book, a few weeks back and I see several online via Google.)

But here, for now, I want to note Bruce’s commitment to the ET scenario, using his analytic proof of the Kenneth Arnold sighting, which is the purpose of the book.

He writes in The Introduction:

“Unidentified Flying Objects are real. Most reports … are explainable. However some of them are not and some of those that are not explainable are Alien Fling Craft (AFC), devices not made by mankind but rather by Non-Human Intelligences (NHIs). [Page 2, Bold italics mine]

Bruce promises that his analysis of the Arnold sighting will “prove [his] conclusion.”

I’m a Maccabee fan, and have been since UFO UpDate founder Errol Buce-Knapp told me that he thought Bruce was working inside the UFO community for Naval research.

(Bruce Duensing once sent me a photo of a spectre that appeared in his kitchen, asking me who might tell him what it was. I contacted Bruce putting him in touch with Duensing, knowing that if anyone could explain the ghostly presence that Duensing experienced, it would be Dr. Maccabee.)

Yet, even as a Maccabee fanboy, I’m stunned that he is so gung-ho nowadays for the ET explanation for UFOs.

After all, his rather thorough analysis of the Trent/McMinnville photos had a skeptical tinge as I recall.

Anyway, I see, in the first few pages, something that baffles me, and for which I expect him to offer an explanation when I get to his analysis. It is this.

He writes that Arnold “was startled by a flash of light on his airplane. It was so intense that it briefly lit up the cockpit … They [the saucers] were at his left, far north of him.” [Page 5, Italics, mine again].

The “disks” were 20-25 miles away from Arnold’s plane, which is noted later in this book and analyzed to determine speed and rebut critics.

I find – and it may be covered by Bruce when I get to the latter pages – that for the “saucers” to provoke an intense, flash of light, lighting up his cockpit” they’d have to be closer to Arnold. And with the sun overhead rather than closer to the horizon, I find the perceived flash to be troublesome.

But Bruce will probably offer an answer. I hope so,

For those of you who pretend to be UFO aficionados, I think you should buy Bruces’s book and those by other UFO writers, like Randle, Redfern, Rosales, et al.

These are serious “ufologists” or researchers who deserve some compensation and support for their judicious efforts.

RR