Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A book for contactee connoisseurs
As the title suggests, the book is almost entirely devoted to discussing the UFO contactees and their fantastic and absurd (if interpreted literally) stories. These include such old favourites as Adamski, Fry and Bethurum, and England's Arthur Shuttlewood, whose visitors from Aenstria liked to chat with him by calling him from a local telephone box.
Some of them are more obscure, and there is one in particular that I have never heard of before. I reproduce the relevant paragraphs here because I am sure that most of my readers will appreciate its delightfully ridiculous details. In the book it follows on from the better-known tale of the South African contactee Elizabeth Klarer, who claimed to have given birth to a son sired by a man called Akon, from Meton, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system.
An even earlier contact with the Alpha Centauri system was made by a Frenchman identified only as Monsieur Y. Some time during the war, in the early 1940s, he had been contacted by space people who had taken him in a spaceship to their planet Bâavi in the Alpha Centauri system. The journey lasted only one and a half hours, the distance of more than 4 light-years being covered so quickly because the spaceship, which he called a vaïd, attained more than 'gravific speed'. This caused them to enter anti-time, changing course three times on the way to Alpha Centauri. On the planet Bâavi Monsieur Y found that men and women had complete equality and lived in a large metropolis, the rest of the planet being left to the natural wildlife. In their early years the young people had children and were then sterilized, living for several hundred years without apparent ageing. They had no marriage or permanent partners but loved everyone equally and practised a form of free physical love among themselves. They foresaw that a great cataclysm would hit the Earth in a relatively short time and so they planned to save some humans to repopulate the planet afterwards.
Perhaps this is what Akon and his friends from Meton were engaged in when he met Elizabeth Klarer. Monsieur Y also returned with much documentation which included a grammar of the Bâavi language, descriptions of intergalactic spacecraft and their construction, a philosophy of time, and the fundamentals of Bâavian science written in Armenian: these last were discovered by Monsieur Y in Southern Algeria buried in a cave and revealed to him by an old desert nomad. Why an archaic Armenian text should be buried in Algeria and contain information on the planet Bâavi, not even Monsieur Y knew.
The Bords obtained this story from pages 277-86 of a book titled The Mysteries of the Skies, but, oddly, they didn't know the names of the author or publisher. It is certainly not the book Mysteries of the Skies, by Lore and Deneault, as this has a strictly nuts-and-bolts approach to the subject.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Interesting UFO cases revisited: 5. Kecksburg
The alleged crash of a UFO at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, on 9 December 1965 is interesting mainly because it is an example of the resolutely irrational approach taken by most ufologists, particularly when investigating reports which generate a lot of publicity. The cause of the incident did not remain a mystery; it was solved very quickly.
I can keep this posting very brief as the details are readily available on the Internet. The incident known to ufologists as the Kecksburg UFO crash is known to astronomers as the Great Lakes Fireball.
The reason why the UFO/fireball became associated with Kecksburg is simply because some people saw it apparently falling into a nearby wooded area, and could not know that it was not something nearby but of the order of 100 miles away. They could not judge its distance as they did not know what it was. Local news media published reports, together with some rumours and exaggerations.
The Kecksburg story was revived occasionally, each time gaining new alleged witnesses to increasingly sensational events, which they had apparently kept quiet about at the time. When Kecksburg believer Stan Gordon published some details of these alleged events on UFO UpDates without stating when they were first published, he was challenged by Brad Sparks, here, for example, who asked such pertinent questions as why there were no photographs, films or contemporary newspaper reports of the crowds of military personnel, and their vehicles, spectators, press reporters, photographers, etc.
One of the best summaries of the facts of this case can be found on Tim Printy's website. On the other hand, if you prefer the typical ufological angle on the incident you can find a pretty dire example on the UFO Digest site.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Stopping Cars
in Operation Trojan Horse (p63) notes that the alleged magnetic fields surrounding
UFOs would not be a plausible means of stopping cars. However, a new device
has recently appeared, that will put a glow on the face of any nuts and bolts
ufologist:
"Research and development company Eureka Aerospace has built a High-Power Electromagnetic System (MPEMS) that uses a compact power source and an antenna to beam microwave energy into the direction of a specific target, for example a moving vehicle, to bring it to a halt by disabling the ignition system. They have also developed a high-resolution imaging system that can detect objects behind walls using radar."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/03/security-technology-startups-pitchlive
Obviously, the aliens were using them years ago, no doubt this device
was reverse-engineered to boot.
