The UFO mess on Facebook

While most of us are just hanging around waiting for something big or worthwhile within the UFO frame, the Facebook UFOers are providing much detritus, that has little or nothing to do with the UFO pheneomenon.

Here's part of the Travis Walton controversy mentioned by Bill Murphy for a recent Anomalist link:

A prevailing theme is that Mike Rogers, one of the guys with Travis when he went off into the woods and became a hostage (kidnapped) of ETs, may be disputing the alleged abduction. But I don't think that's what Mike is bitching about.

Mike Rogers is upset that he was not let in on a new film or docu about the Walton episode. This goes to the current turmoil in the UFO community between flying saucer stalwarts and long-timers, for reasons that are petty or trivial.

Another example arises from Philip Mantle's vivid attempt to dethrone Nick Pope as a bright star in the UFO firmament. I won't get into the argument that Mantle is pushing except to note that he, Mantle, is pushing, with all his might, that lousy "alien autopsy" film and the conglomeration around it, but still persists in claiming Nick Pope is not all that he (Pope) claims to be.

Nick Pope is, for me and many others, an above-board gentlemen well-versed in UFO historiography and a notable TV personality who worked with Britain's MoD from which he culled much that is helpful in understanding the UFO phenomenon and government agencies that have information about it. 

Mantle's persistent attacks on Nick Pope's credibility is rooted in direct and fetid fits of jealousy and envy on Mantle's part, feelings that Mantle dismisses so aggressively, he opens the door to the reality of his covetous desire to be Nick.

That Mantle lauds the despicable alien autopsy film while slamming Nick Pope is a grand example of sociopathic behavior, which seems very prevalent in the UFO community nowadays.

Then there's this:

A fellow I like, Ben Brannum, likes to provide photos that contain, he writes, UFOs, this one a clip from the recent Mars probe supposedly showing scads of UFOs all over the Martian skies.

Few can see anything resembling a UFO and a few even offering their photos, or non-photos of UFOs to augment Ben's "observations."

And here is a quant offering from my pal Curt Collins, offering a nostalgic yet informative bit of UFO related (or not-related) spaceship "news."

Sometimes UFO postings are fraught with relevant information, but any relevance on Facebook lately is not finding its way to the forefront of the social network's pages that I scour.

And I don't see any change on the horizon.

RR