Two “UFO events” that give me a headache

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Hear me out….

On May 20, 1967, amateur prospector Stefan Michalak said he came across this object at Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada:

Here are two accounts of the alleged incident:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639

http://ufo-explorer.com/timeline/falcon-lake-manitoba-canada-1967/

I’ve suggested, often here (and I apologize for regurgitating these incidents but they leave me questioning what really happened) that Michalak either stumbled upon a Canadian Defense Ministry test vehicle (pre-drone) or bumped into an out-of-area U.S. military test object.

I revised that view to accept, as a possibility, that Mr. Michalak may have even been confronted by an extraterrestrial AI drone.

The problem with that scenario, for me, is the primitive “exhaust” that supposedly burnt Michalak’s chest. That an AI/ET drone from an advanced civilization off Earth would spew a steam-like spray seems a bit old-fashioned.

Or I can accept my pal Zoam Chomsky’s Iron Skeptical refutation of the whole affair:

http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/michalak/michalak.htm

Then there is the Robert Taylor assault by this seemingly mechanical device:

I wouldn’t ascribe such a weird device to a British military device or drone; it’s a little fey.

Here is Wikipedia’s account of the November 9, 1979 incident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_incident

In the Wikipedia offering is a suggestion of what happened to Mr. Taylor, an upright citizen of Scotland:

He suffered “an isolated attack of temporal lobe epilepsy.”

I find that etiological “explanation” satisfactory for several reasons but there are some niggling problems with it.

Mr. Taylor’s pants were torn, as it he actually was attacked by the mechanical  mace-like balls he said came out of the larger craft he stumbled upon.

And there were gouges in the ground as if something large had maneuvered in the spot where the device apparently beset Mr. Taylor.

I’ve suggested that Mr. Taylor, like Michalak, may have been attacked by an AI machine, one from an interplanetary probe.

The “craft” – I prefer device – was odd enough to seem other-worldly.

But the hallucinatory ambiance of the recounted affair seems more likely to me, and I’ve proffered that when Mr. Taylor collapsed, his pet dog, that was with him, may have tried to pull at him, ripping his pants in the doing.

But then there are those ground gouges.

RR

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This panel from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) depicts a winged supernatural figure. The figures are supernatural but do not represent any of the great gods. Rather, they are part of the vast supernatural population that for ancient Mesopotamians animated every aspect of the world. They appear as either eagle-headed or human-headed and wear a horned crown to indicate divinity. Both types of figure usually have wings. Because of their resemblance to groups of figurines buried under doorways for protection whose identities are known through ritual texts, it has been suggested that the figures in the palace reliefs represent the apkallu, wise sages from the distant past. This may indeed be one level of their symbolism, but protective figures of this kind are likely to have held multiple meanings and mythological connections. https://met.org/2tkzruW

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