Disclosure, disclosure, disclosure!

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Dipping into Facebook Saturday night [8/1/20] – to check my media connection – I found several notifications about new postings from the UFO UpDates group and administered nicely by Curt Collins.

For several days now, there, and in my Google UFO newsfeeds are dollops about the supposed acknowledgement by the Pentagon that its long-secretive, ongoing UFO study is about to announce that it thinks the UFOs [UAP] encountered by U.S. Navy pilots and other military are off-Earth vehicles.

A botched New York Times piece, revised after its initial publication, created the anticipation of “disclosure” by, from what I can tell, UFO fringers: persons not well-known or even known at all among the usual contingent of noted UFO enthusiasts.

These closeted or passive UFO newbies and UFO hermits are drooling at the possibility that the U.S. government may be about to tell the public (us) that UFOs exist and are from somewhere off the planet, the fringers hoping that the news is a disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth now (and for a very long time up to now).

What little contact I’ve had with the fringers indicates a hoary lot, disheveled and ignorant generally, rude and without class or taste of any kind. I could name them but a few have been around a long time, without making a ufological mark and are angry with me already for closing this blog to them where now they have to ask for “permission” to see my dopey renderings; e.g., skeptic Tim Printy for one and a mess of a guy, Roy Hale.

It’s good that Facebook is losing advertisers by the sh*tload and is about to be broken up by the government for deleterious behavior. This should clean the UFO palate there or mitigate the offensive effluvia.

We’ll see.

RR

Authors and Archetypal UFO books

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We, each of us reading this, have our collection of UFO books, favorites and otherwise.

I, like you, have a raft of UFO books, many bought on a whim, hoping to find something unique or unknown within.

But, in reality, there are only a few, very few, UFO tomes that are worthy of interest or a spot on our bookshelves.

(I’m not going to include Nick Redfern’s output here. He’s a long-time friend of mine and a journalist above and beyond just a writer of UFO and paranormal books. I’ve learned more from him than anyone in the UFO community who has written something about the phenomenon, so excluding him from my notation of good writers is not a slight but a remove honoring his work overall, for a long time now and his cachet among the UFO people who count.)

My pal Dominick mentioned, in an earlier comment here, a term paper about UFOs, written in high school in 1958. Many of us have been enthralled with flying saucers as Dominick has been. (I’ve often mentioned here my start of a flying saucer club in HS and my first oral book report there: Frank Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers.)

And what were the first books that took us into the UFO mystery? Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real (1950), Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953), The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955), and Flying Saucers: Top Secret (1960) and, surely, George Adamski’s (1953) Flying Saucers Have Landed, (1955) Inside the Space Ships, and (1961) Flying Saucers Farewell.

Later on we grabbed Carl Jung’s Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1958) and M.K. Jessup’s, The Case for the UFO (1955) and perhaps his UFO(s) and the Bible (1956).

And, of course Ruppelt, Ed Ruppelt’s The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (both versions) from Ace Books, (1956).

We bought John Fuller’s Interrupted Journey or something by Timothy Good, Budd Hopkins, or David Jacobs.

And certainly the Roswell books: Berlitz and Moore’s The Roswell Incident (1980) or Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt’s UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) et cetera.

Also, everything by John Keel: Operation Trojan Horse, The Mothman Prophesies, The Eighth Tower, etc.

And of course the encyclopedic books by Jerome (Jerry) Clark or Ron Story.

The Jacques Vallee oeuvre became a must, along with Stan Fried- man’s output or Brad Steiger’s and even the skeptical works of Phil Klass or Donald Menzel.

There are others: Jenny Randle, Leonard Stringfield, Ivan Sander- son, even the Strieber fiction.

And let’s not forget Erich von Däniken’s works. (Almost all of us have one or two of his best-sellers.)

Of course there are many more – feel free to name them in a comment.

Then we have the smattering of books by unknowns or wannabe’s, too many to list but most going to remainder bins shortly after their initial appearance: Diana Pasulka’s American Cosmic, Robbie Graham’s Silver Screen Saucers, and anything by Greg Bishop. 

These are not bad books by any means. (I have them in my collection.) but they will never have the cachet or “importance” that the books noted above had on our psyches and UFO “training.”

We are creatures of formative nostalgia and initial input, as Freud told us.

Those first UFO or flying saucer books, along with movies or TV shows about them are ingrained in us, and have made us what we are in various UFO categories: skeptics, believers in extraterres- trial’s or outer space visitors, investigators of anything strange, hope-filled anticipators of paranormal visits by something not of this reality, or just collectors of esoterica.

But we, after all, have our books, and that is comforting in its way, as it is with all readers and collectors of the written word. Without books we are intellectually skeletal, adrift in the mire of ignorance that the internet as imposed upon many.

RR

“Space Brothers”?

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In the video for the posting below, the witness, Jessie, mentions with emphasis that she saw two beautiful beings in the craft (flying saucer) she spotted in 1954. Nick, in a comment, refers to what the witness saw as “space brothers.”

That’s what they were referred to during the 50’s stemming from George Adamski’s description of the being, Orthon, he allegedly encountered, and the designations of such beings supposedly encountered by “contactees” (that Nick has extensively written about).

John Keel and others used the term for the period.

I noted a few times here, at this blog, that flying saucer encounters provided by Albert Rosales in his Humanoid Encounters series often referred to any entities supposedly observed as beautiful or handsome, stunning in their appearance.

What sparked such “romantic” descriptives? They were  ubiquitous.

What changed the description of supposed UFO entities from enticing space brothers (and sisters) to those grungy little grays that now find themselves left out of UFO (UAP) sightings, much like the absence of the space brothers theme?

I think the little gray descriptives, derived from the fictionalized recalls of Roswell’s crashed aliens, and the image of the UFO entities in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind along with the ossified image of an ET on Whitley Strieber’s best-selling fictional book:

Recognizing, at some level nowadays, how both the space brother stereotype and the little gray beings are scientifically errant, both images are now rather defunct and out of fashion.

But what can be the explanation for all the beautiful and handsome entities noted in early flying saucer sightings? Does José Caravaca’s Distortion Theory provide an answer or clue?

Or is there a pathological explanation? Or did witnesses actually see what they say they saw?

Either way, we have moved to a more non-dynamic era of sight- ings, UAP or entity-less beings spotted inside flying craft or just outside landed craft.

UFOs today are flying things often or usually amorphous or just a light in the sky, none landing near humans.

What’s the game? UFOers no longer care, most sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for their governments to tell them UFOs are from other worlds.

But the reality is much more intense and interesting than that…..

RR