‘Demons in the Dark’

Incedentally, I suggested (in an earlier BLOG) going to this site: http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html. Unfortunately, the site is colored blue on blue making it difficult to read. You can over come this problem by right clicking on the site and then clicking on Select All and that will highlight the writings making them much easier to read. To get to the site left click, drag the ccurser across the URL and highlite http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html then right click and select COPY then paste it to the URL bar.

So, here I am having the time of my life participating in a BLOG when suddenly interest from others seems to have faded away. This, of course, is pretty much the way it gose with the subject. I watched and interview with a Russian army office on TV (Russia considers UFO's to be a serious matter). Anyway, after the documentary he was featured on ran the gamut of alleged sightings he (the officer) summed it up by saying "I think it is something that we don't know nothing about it". A most profound statement

Is the incorporation of information gleaned from the National Press Club regarding
the below mentioned military officers etc., too low brow
for newsweek?
Where does the research in this article coalesce with the information that is now out there on this topic?
Perhaps this is a time for journalists to be more courageous, and brave the stigma that they may
experience in doing a mainstream article on this.
These people (alluded to in below posting)with , in terms of their personal character,were ones entrusted with high security issues.
Now that they have attested, first hand ,to having witnessed ufo incidents , the mainstream
reaction, in the press especially , is conspicuously silent.
Is the press, or public in general, necessarily willing to discredit so quickly , those with whom we (the organizations)entrusted high security
matters at one time?
The press has a responsibility to be informed.The public becomes informed through the press.
This issue has turned into an examination of how govts. and press handle issues of security.
In terms of what has been said , if it is true regarding NASA (disclosure project film)withholding information regarding
crafts not of earthly origin.It calls into question,
the latitude that has been exerted regarding secrecy regarding their activities.
NASA was established having the moniker of the nations public space program.
How public is it?
Has NASA"S right to utilize existing secrecy laws given way to over-reaching and self-serving
exploitation of those laws?
the public should assert its will and put
the pencil to what their tax dollar is going.
NASA was established by the U.S. govt., however.
Sorry to say, many of these organizations that are insulated from public scrutiny can become
bloated and mismanaged.

Regarding the Frank Fields letter 01/27/2008: BRAVO!

In support of evidence I suggest going to this site: http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html

This article is not well researched and does not look at all the facts. There is solid evidence of extraterrestrial visitation if one would just look.

Solid testimony from over 460 corporate and military witnesses has been accumulated by two disclosure initiatives. These 460 disclosure witnesses have openly stated they are willing to testify, under oath and before Congress about their direct encounters with crash site investigations, secret documents, photographic evidence, radar reports and recovered crashed ET vehicles.

As an Attorney, I can attest that the jurisprudential evidence of this quality does not get any better, especially when witnesses possess the ranks of Brigadier Generals, Commander of ICBM Launch facilities, Senior FAA Crash Site Investigators, astronauts, pilots and officers with above top secret clearance. This testimony is only the tip of the iceberg.

Many Governments have started releasing previously classified data on ETs and UFOs. France was the first, in March 2007 the French National Space Agency placed 1600 previously classified UFO sighting reports into the public domain for examination; beginning the process of full disclosure of non-Earth origin craft. Similarly, the United Kingdom in May 2007 began a disclosure initiative. Other counties have started to follow suit. It is time for the United States to do the same.

The United Nations General Assembly voted to invite U.N. Member States "to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General.???

The Honorable Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, stated publicly in September 2005 at the University of Toronto???s Convocation Hall before the press and over 500 people, "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

Colonel Phillip J. Corso, a highly decorated retired US Army Intelligence officer, who had direct contact with, and was in charge of material from crashed extraterrestrial vehicles, recorded his experiences in a book. Colonel Corso???s documentation is supported by a retired U.S. four star General as being, ???true and even more??????

In my personal experience, I was a U.S. Army Major and held a top secret clearance. I worked as an Army Computer Scientist and am a graduate of the U.S. Army Computer Science School. My awards include the Bronze Star Medal for leadership in combat as well as many others. As a result of my positions other officers have confided in me and I have no doubt that ETs have visited our planet.

Please conduct your own investigation into this matter and help end the governmental and media secrecy. This massive cover-up has been going on far too long. Articles like this appear to be disinformation when obviously no real research was done .

I agree with most of these postings.
Perhaps it is time to register some lucid protest at the ironic level of reaching and grasping at straws
that takes place, to evade the possibility that what people see is.........what they saw.

if someone witnesses a purse snatching they don't examine the Junigian extrapolations, to find
an alternative, sanitized explanation to conform to , and palliate their sense of denial.
Reaching for internal ephemeral, explanations, to deny that
something unexplainable or ... 'bad' took place.
( We really haven't determined whether these flying things are 'good' or 'bad, not my point )

So many knee- jerk skeptics presume to enlighten us on -humans 'needing to believe in supernatural things as part of our nature' and
supplanting a desire to find God or a supreme being with the "need to believe" in ufos.
There are always going to be the 'magical thinkers , the quixotic thinkers.
That really is not what this is about.
Most of that kind of selling peoples own judgement short is nonsense.
These people didn't ask to see these things while they were shoveling snow or ..being soccer moms.
Mind you, the need to deny and to not believe is just as strong and 'smoke from the same fire' as the need to believe.
People(especially professional skeptics) go through ridiculous contortions attempting to condescendingly sober others up , so their own belief systems are reinforced.
Those belief systems are often based on a sense of denial.In this discussion the denial is that some other living or intelligent entity couldnt' possibly be
piloting what might be...
I dare say... a vehicle of some sort.

This duck might be walking like a duck.
In medicine, as a model for deduction, you gravitate toward the most likely diagnosis first.
Group hallucinations and all the other filmy metaphysical stuff that are offered up as an explanation for one seeing something unusual.
Now that is truly 'magical thinking'.
In fact maybe the psychologists shouldn't be allowed to dine at the 'adults table' anymore.
A physical , seemingly 'intelligently controlled' vehicle would be the first choice of likelihood,
not the last, given the arcane and murky alternate explanations that are given that smack of
'inexact science.
The very kind of inexact science that the scientific community didactically admonishes us about..

I agree with most of these postings.
Perhaps it is time to register some lucid protest at the ironic level of reaching and grasping at straws
that takes place, to evade the possibility that what people see is.........what they saw.

if someone witnesses a purse snatching they don't examine the Jungigian extrapolations, to find
an alternative, sanitized explanation to conform to , and palliate their sense of denial.
Reaching for internal ephemeral, explanations, to deny that
something unexplainable or ... 'bad' took place.
( We really haven't determined whether these flying things are 'good' or 'bad, not my point )

So many knee- jerk skeptics presume to enlighten us on -humans 'needing to believe in supernatural things as part of our nature' and
supplanting a desire to find God or a supreme being with the "need to believe" in ufos.
There are always going to be the 'magical thinkers , the quixotic thinkers.
That really is not what this is about.
Most of that kind of selling peoples own judgement short is nonsense.
These people didn't ask to see these things while they were shoveling snow or ..being soccer moms.
Mind you, the need to deny and to not believe is just as strong and 'smoke from the same fire' as the need to believe.
People(especially professional skeptics) go through ridiculous contortions attempting to condescendingly sober others up , so their own belief systems are reinforced.
Those belief systems are often based on a sense of denial.In this discussion the denial is that some other living or intelligent entity couldnt' possibly be
piloting what might be...
I dare say... a vehicle of some sort.

This duck might be walking like a duck.
In medicine, as a model for deduction, you gravitate toward the most likely diagnosis first.
Group hallucinations and all the other filmy metaphysical stuff that are offered up as an explanation for one seeing something unusual.
Now that is truly 'magical thinking'.
In fact maybe the psychologists shouldn't be allowed to dine at the 'adults table' anymore.
A physical , seemingly 'intelligently controlled' vehicle would be the first choice of likelihood,
not the last, given the arcane and murky alternate explanations that are given that smack of
'inexact science.
The very kind of inexact science that the scientific community didactically admonishes us about..

Please the government just came out and said that fighter jets were in the area now after denying it for two weeks. Whats that all about?? Why lie about the truth for two weeks? The only thing I have to say about UFO episodes that hit the media airwaves is that every episode is accompanied by somebody trying to disprove it. The notion that a scientist or the article writer here can use the term "simple physics" to try and explain possible interplanetary travel between star systems is a disgrace to the concepts of science and physics all together. What do we know about alien technology? The public knows nothing. But go dig deep in some government safehouse basement 10000 feet below sea level and see what you find. Does the public really believe that our government isnt hiding something about the bigger picture? Come on. I know im all over the place with my comment but basically I believe some people may have sleep deprivation and their minds make up what they see..I believe that 90% of the time. But the other 10%.. the episodes where people over a large area report the same thing and characteristics...whats that? Mass hysteria? Please. Its unexplained...and most of those unexplained epiodes stay right there...unexplained.

I live in the great northwestern United States where we enjoy (mostly) cloud cover a good part of each year. Generally we can count on clear skies approximately three (summer) months each year and that is when many sightings are reported. Generally it takes most of the first month of clear skies to realize that what most of us thought was a UFO is actually the sun. However, this should not distract from what others see and report. But, the question remains that if there really is an alien life looking us over why haven't they landed and introduced theirselves? On the other hand, given our habit of slaughtering one another that could be a deterrent. As for myself, I hesitat to go downtown after dark for the same reason

Using Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit analogy, along with teleportation as a sort of vehicle for intergalactic space travel, seems to me one way of debunking veridical events such as the UFO sightings in Stephenville, TX. They are both extreme analogies which really do nothing to address witness testimony. Besides this, the article fails do provide an evolutionary model for radar recordings of unidentified flying objects which operate outside the parameters of known, man-made craft. Essentially, UFOs are a perceived national security risk. The government does not acknowledge this to the public, but then any informed American ought to not be shocked by this.

The only thing I seriously doubt is that extraterrestrials could ever exceed the pomposity of this writer.