The forgotten or obscure in Ufology (and life)

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TCM  [Turner Classic Movies] offered a documentary Tuesday (July 14, 20200, My Journey Through French Cinema [2016] by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier in which Tavernier provided insight to many innovative techniques of French movie directors and actors, plus technical colleagues, many (most?) not known by cineasts, let alone moviegoers/fans outside France.

And a reading of any topic will bring forward obscure masters about whom we should know more but don’t, so that some advanced thinking, discoveries, and creations go unnoticed during the time of their proffering and never reach most of humanity.

This is often true in the UFO community, where the ideas of Gerald Heard (Insects may be piloting flying saucers) or Aime Michel (Orthoteny), among others, reside in the garbage bin of excluded “research” and thought.

Orthoteny has been brought forward by Bryan Sentes but who among you really knows or cares about Michel’s idea?

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/6b6p8e/orthoteny_the_
theory_and_study_of_the_appearance/

In the article linked above, you’ll read that Michel found patterns in the flight paths of flying saucers, indicating, he thought, intel- ligence.

But I found and still find that idea a bit of a stretch; possible, even plausible, and interesting, but the straight-line behavior maybe indicating a natural, yet unusual phenomenon

Earlier here, at this blog and elsewhere, I’ve mentioned that there is, often, a straight line in UFO flight paths.

For instance, when the 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter sightings took place, a day after those events, similar sightings took place in Hillsdale, Michigan, and if you draw a line from AA/Dexter to Hillsdale and extend it, you’ll find other sightings along the line drawn.

There are sightings, following the 1966 AA/Dexter/Hillsdale sightings, along the drawn line, right down into Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and into the southwest.

The straight line isn’t the only key to such sightings. The time interval between sightings follows a pattern too: sightings take place at one day then 2 days, 7 days, 11 days, and so on.

My UFO gang once extrapolated such patterns for accidents, crimes, earthquakes, and other disasters. The pattern holds. One can predict several events using the patterns we discovered years ago.

And when I applied the straight-line theory of Michel to the two major UFO incidents of Ann Arbor/Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan, I found other sightings in a sequence of dates that struck me as a kind of warped Fibonacci sequence.

(The dates of blog postings referencing the straight-like concept and/or the AA/Dexter and Hillsdale sightings show up inside this blog for these dates: October 28, 2019, September 26, 2015, December 20, 2016, December 1, 2014, May 17, 2014, January 25, 2016, September 18, 2010, September 16, 2007, December 15, 2019, November 28, 2012, January 25, 2012, December 27, 2016, August 23, 2015, October 7, 2019, March 5, 2019, July 17, 2018, and February 10, 2018.)

My point surprisingly perhaps, is not the extension-like affront to Michel’s Orthoteny theory but, rather, that a slightly obscure, older concept, almost forgotten by old-time UFOers and not known at all by UFO newbies may hold something worthwhile for a search to an explanation for the UFO phenomenon or enigma.

Thus, to throw away older sightings and books or ideas about UFOs may be intellectually criminal.

There could be gold inside some of those older, seemingly weird ideas.

N.B. Straight-line map above from NICAP

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