A book about one of my favorite UFO events....if it was a UFO event.

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Matty, reading here, noted that the 1979 Robert Taylor UFO incident, in Scotland, is an event that I keep going back to, time and time again.

Thus he recommended the book, pictured here, which arrived from Amazon this past Monday [December 30, 2019].

Matty indicated the book was not written well, by his standards, and another visitor here agreed.

I have to disagree somewhat.

The author, Malcolm Robinson, is a fine writer. he communicates his ideas cogently and thoroughly, even if he is occasionally redundant.

I don't think I write well but, like Mr. Robinson, hope I make  my points clear enough for even the most diligent literary maven.

At any rate, the book is a must-read. for how UFO events, as that presented, come to be thought about and researched, ultimately landing in UFO lore complete as possible.

In this incident, Mr. Robinson provides eleven theories attempting to explain the "incident" -- I've merely read a few so far.

I'm of the school that thinks UFO witnesses or those allegedly assaulted or "abducted" by UFOs present their experiences as faithfully as is possible, especially under or after a stressful, spectacular event.

My point with this note is to recommend the book, because it covers an intriguing episode, that occurred to a decent, sane fellow, and presents a UFO tale or paranormal event that should raise the curiosity of us who are absorbed by both UFOs and the paranormal milieu.

I thank Matty for bringing this swell book to my attention, and I'll try to bring the story it offers forward again, if it meets with the interest of those who come to this blog: the intellectual subset of ufology.

RR

Hallucinations are “real” and UFO are too….but in what way?

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

As you know or will know when reading about hallucinations, what a person sees or hears is real to them a non-hallucinogenic event is to anyone said to be sensing reality normally.

Of course an hallucination is experienced by one or more persons who are participating in an abnormal state, momentarily.

If an hallucination extends for a period of time, the person(s) afflicted have entered a psychotic state, often only resolved by psychological (psychiatric) assistance.

The behavior of such persons so afflicted is said to be delusional and exists as a “minor” state of behavioral disorder or develops in a full out attack on the personality: schizophrenia.

In all instances, no matter how serious, hallucinations are real events, perceptions of a reality that normality doesn’t register.

Nonetheless, the hallucination is actual – real – by all definitions, much as a rainbow or fog is real: something amorphous but existent in real terms.

Because an hallucination takes place in one or a few persons – sometimes among a group, and termed within the mass hysteria labeling – the abnormality of it is certified. It lies outside reality as reality is perceived by normal sensory data or perception.

Now what if UFOs are hallucinations in that same sense, as that which are misperceptions of reality or, rather, perceptions of that which do exist but in a way that defies normality; that is, UFO witnesses – including those U.S. Naval pilots currently in then news and said to have encountered UFOs – who are having hallucinatory perceptions but of something that is cloaked as an hallucination only by reason of its natural or normal makeup.

I’m suggesting that UFOs are like rainbows: a perceived item without materiality, something devoid of constituent matter.

The reported accounts of UFOs (flying saucers early on) have almost always consisted of a ghost-like observation: unstructured tangibility, bizarre movements, instantaneous appearance and disappearance, no sound, no material viability.

As for traces on the ground, in situ, or radar returns, temperature inversions provide radar returns and poltergeists leave tangible visible traces.

UFOs may be of a nature that is non-material, consisting of an hallucinogenic-like perception that, while not being a true hallucination, is just as intangible yet real as that which some persons are bereaved to endure (or blessed to see or hear, as in the case of Saints or those Shamantic personages so beloved by some UFOers I know).

The nature – the essence of UFOs – may be something unknown by human standards of perception.

This should not imply an extraterrestrial determination but, rather, a phenomenon that should be considered as rare yet as real as any number of other things that impact human senses, many of those things mistakenly listed as mental aberrations.

RR

Old incidents….new interest?

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A pal of mine, MP, has been pursuing a few odd UFO events, one being the so-called Scoriton incident and another that ties into it, the 1957 Vilas Boas “abduction.”

I’ve covered both tales many times and Nick Redfern has presented much on the Vilas Boas story in his book Contactees and the Scoriton episode in his book Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind plus several articles about both for the Mysterious Universe web site.

In the late 1970s – before the computer/internet era – I, along with Lucius Farish, tried to fathom some stories about both Vilas Boas and the highly unusual Scoriton episode that a fellow, Bosco Nedelcovic relayed to me during two phone calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Villas_Boas

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/scoriton-affair

Bosco Nedelcovic contacted me about a utopian-like project he was trying to set up called Basic Livelihood.

During his many contacts he brought up some the UFO accounts noted.

I don’t recall or ever knew why Bosco contacted me in the first place. I assume he read about my interest in flying saucers that the two major Detroit newspapers had highlighted in some articles about me as I was raising hell and trying to rattle Detroiters with many high jinks in the 1960s.

After much correspondence, over a rather long time, Bosco raised the issue of his participation in some military activities that involved UFOs.

I kept notes from two particular phone conversations and created a 9 or 10 page précis of those calls and my work (with Lucius) to determine if there was any validity to the stories that Bosco related.

Such stories, in the 1978 time-frame, were not something discussed very much, if at all, about UFOs and military/CIA created events.

Without Google or the internet, I checked, as did Lucius, some of the details that Bosco imparted, placing our efforts in footnotes to the Bosco presented insider information.

I sent the paper and notes to Jacques Vallee’s postal address that Lucius gave me but never heard back from Monsieur Vallee.

And I provided copies to APRO’s Lorenzens. (Their response is online here and at some of our other UFO blogs.)

But there didn’t appear to be any interest in the matters disclosed by Bosco.

When Bosco was arrested for child seduction I think and his CIA connection made known, his name surfaced and appeared on Errol Bruce-Knapp’s UFO UpDates.

I then placed my nine-pager about Bosco’s revelations online in one of our UFO blogs, for 2006.

Nick Redfern picked up on it as did a  former FBI agent/lawyer who sent me a letter asking for my help with a matter that involved Bosco.

But as I had just got out of the hospital, one of my RRRGroup fellows handled the request and I never really heard anything more about it.

Now MP is looking back at the Bosco “information” and was able to get, by paying a fee to the Wayback team, my 2006 postings, which were lost when we canceled our Homestead UFO web-site.

MP sent me the nine pages and asked if I might put them online, to stir interest I think, maybe helping him obtain more information.

For me the stories, while intriguingly odd (and grist for Nick Redfern’s interests), are old news and don’t impact the phenom- enon itself, thus of no real import for a UFO explanation, except that the phenomenon has been clouded by virtue of government agencies seemingly messing around with UFO created scenarios.

However, if there is some interest by persons who visit here, I’ll put the retrieved paper online for scrutiny and commentary, to help MP more than anything else.

Let me know.

RR