Not about UFOs (or UAP) but interesting to some here I hope

I finally received this book Wednesday [9/1].

The author, Robert Conner suggests that the Gospel writers used the ghost tales that circulated among the Greco-Roman people at the time the New Testament literature was being written as "the basis for the resurrection accounts" that make up the Biblical stories we have come to know.

For me (a former seminarian), as some of you know, the Jesus story is basic to my under- standing of the Christ phenomenon, and this book will factor in my Substack pages, as an Epilogue, about the deviant non-god (Yahweh) who came to be God for the early Israelites and then the whole of Jewish, Christian, ad Islamic faiths.

It also, I think, will be interesting to my pal Paul Kimball who is an avid ghost chaser and a few others who also believe, as I do, that Jesus actually lived, died, and Resurrected.

The Shroud of Turin is evidence for me of Jesus' death and (perhaps) his miraculous back-to-life metamorphosis.

I've inserted this side-bar for Paul, Martin Black, and maybe Dan and Ron who frequent here and seem inclined to be interested in matters of Faith.

(The rest of you will surely forgive me.)

RR

Tony Bragalia's latest effort

 www.ufoexplorations.com  : “New Drones May Explain “UFO” Orb Sightings”

That John Greenewald (Black Vault)

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A YouTube “program” from John Greenewald popped up on my TV last night (9/1).
 
It was a show he did – I didn’t see the date it first showed up online – about a 1949 FBI memo he discovered during a FOIA request.
 
(He noted that the memo had circulated before, online, but it wasn’t well-known or highly publicized.)
 
The memo was from an FBI field agent to J. Edgar Hoover and contained some interesting UAP [sic] sightings, one from Eastern Airlines pilots and passengers and some from observations over Los Alamos.
 
In the references to the things seen (and evaluated) was the term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, used as the sobriquet for flying disks and flying saucers for the period, 1949.
 
John pointed out that the term was not new obviously, being used so long ago, which brings me to my point: UAP, as used today, opens the door to any goofy thing seen in the sky, UFO enthusiasts gathering a slew of vapid oddities above their heads.
 
(Facebook sends me, as it does for a few of you regulars here also, notifications that something new has been posted there from members of UFO groups I joined – silly me.)
 
Anyway, the UAP designation, as used today (2021), has invigorated foggy newbies with a UFO interest, causing them to list or show photos – rafts of them – of every meaningless piece of anything floating overhead. I get FB notifications of those flippant listings.
 
While a few – very few – are interesting and truly odd, most are blatant observations or photos of obvious mundane things, some tangible and many meteorological.
 
Fellow Facebookers “liking” the postings merely acclimate the persons providing such flotsam to attention, which causes them to input more of the same, flooding the UFO field with a slew of crap, muddying the UFO waters more than it ever was in its zippy heyday.

So, Paul Kimball’s plaint here, in a recent comment that the UFO environment is the same-old, same-old, is a little off the mark, it’s actually much worse.

 
The lunatics have taken control of the institution.

(Cartoon image of Facebooker is by ElfabriX for m.facebook.com)
 
RR