An Open Letter to Ufologist Kevin Randle

Mr. Randle:

You’ve proven that some Roswell witnesses lied and are still lying.

You’ve also proved that some persons interviewed about Roswell have told the truth as far as they know it.

However, witness veracity, or not, can’t resolve the Roswell controversy. Only the most rabid believers in an alien flying saucer crash and some vitriolic debunkers think that witnesses will provide the Holy Grail of truth about Roswell, either pro or con the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

Science, media, and the public generally won’t accept witness accounts as proof of anything. And they are right to eschew such accounts.

Surely you must be tired of trying to take a stand on behalf of some maligned Roswell witnesses. The rest of us UFO aficionados are.

But you have also proved that something happened at Roswell, something extraordinary.

Now comes the time to get your hands on some Roswell material that actually makes the case for or against an extraterrestrial intrusion or crash near Roswell in July 1947.

You (and others) have scoured various archives, and you’ve reported that the GAO determined the pertinent Roswell documents and military communications for the time-frame have gone missing, destroyed presumably.

But some material still exists that you (and others) haven’t found or seen as far as we can tell from your Roswell writings.

Some documents about the Roswell incident reside at the Library of Congress, in that construct’s archives.

And the Office of Naval Intelligence also has material from the 1947 episode, actual documents from the Roswell dates of the incident there.

Also the CIA has material that can be acquired by Freedom of Information requests (as you know) directed to the appropriate CIA division: Office of Military Affairs.

(What the material still extant will prove or disprove about Roswell we can’t say and won’t pursue since Roswell is a dead issue for us.)

Yes, the alleged UFO crash at Roswell has been seemingly dredged to the bottom of the pond, to no avail – none whatsoever.

It’s time to get some real proof, which has eluded you (and others), or close the Roswell casket.

Being mired in Roswell’s obfuscated detritus is not a mentally healthy endeavor.

Produce something concrete, or move on….to UFO incidents with a high probability of denouement.

Two Ufological Afflictions….

A fixation on the past and a need for more and more UFO excitement

Ufologists Kevin Randle and Stanton Friedman, to name two, are locked into the Roswell event. They are fixated, psycho-neurotically, to whatever happened in and around Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.



It’s not just a fixation but a regression by Randle, Friedman, et al. They have invested so much time and energy on proving that Roswell did or did not happen - Friedman thinks it did and Randle is waffling – that their egos are at stake.



They can’t leave Roswell and move on. They are psychologically maladjusted to the Roswell story.

Jerry Clark has moved on. Dick Hall also. And several others too. But David Rudiak hasn’t. And many more haven’t either. The Roswell “crash” is a UFO regressive point that the psychopathic can’t escape.

There are a few other UFO fixation points (Aztec, the Hill abduction, Socorro, and even Phoenix, Arizona), but Roswell provides the ultimate UFO cathexis.



The other psychopathology that is prevalent in the UFO community is a need – almost like a drug addiction – for new and more UFO sightings and events, even to the point where some UFO aficionados have taken to hoaxing UFO sightings to assuage their need.

The Mexican balloon launches, the recent drone incursions, the faked YouTube videos are examples of fraudulent thrusts to keep UFOs on a momentum that it doesn’t deserve, or need.



Bloggers are catalysts for this aspect of the ufological psychopathology.

Bloggers need copy and without any real events to report they make some up.

The concoctions are transparent, but UFO mavens disregard the contrivance of them, since the need to keep the UFO myth alive is paramount, and addictively necessary for many.



Flying saucers and UFOs have always brought out silliness in some.

The hoaxes and creations aren’t malevolent, just inane, and harmless mostly.

But they, along with the fixation on the past, have kept and are keeping the UFO mystery from being solved.

And while that isn’t existentially relevant, it is a minor aggravation for those who’d like to see the enigma resolved, one way or another.

Where's the UFO "wow factor"?

Frank Warren’s UFO blog has an interview with a colonel who says he saw a UFO crash in Mexico some years ago:

Frank Warren blog account

Notice how blasé the aged colonel is as he relates his tale.

When NASA scientists and technicians land a rover on Mar or achieve some other outer space deployment, they, en masse, get giddy and child-like in their enthusiasm.

NASA, and other achievers (such as Olympic winners and their families) become hyper-emotional during and after their feats. The élan infects bystanders and participants alike,



But when flying saucer observers, and the Roswell contingent in particular, like the colonel above, remain unenthused, prosaic, and typically example a severe case of ennui, even though they say they’ve experienced something profound, transcendental.

Joseph Capp, a peripheral ufologist, exalts UFO witnesses; they are the crème de la crème of the UFO community he thinks.

But why are those witnesses so becalmed in the wake of their potential epiphanous experiences?

Where’s the élan that the NASA people exhibit when they partake in things that have much less of a “wow factor” than a UFO sighting or crash (with alien bodies)?

Just as we promote the idea that Truman, alleged MJ-12 members, military personnel, and other government operatives remained too ordinary after they saw UFO debris and bodies from flying saucer accidents, in Roswell and other places, so too do we challenge the psychological aftermath of UFO witnesses and abductees.



If they’ve all experienced what they say they’ve experienced, and they are not suffering a kind of war-like stress syndrome, or mentally acute state of denial, these people are creative automatons, with stories that don’t make sense in the light of their apathetic recounting of their stories.

It just doesn’t make psychological sense.

So, the Roswell “witnesses,” Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, Frank Warren’s colonel,et al. can be dismissed, entirely, despite the attempt by Joseph Capp and others to gild them with laurel wreaths.

Their passivity has done them in…..

What does the Bigfoot farce tells us about UFOs?

That certain people will go pretty far for temporary fame and/or money.

The flying saucer sightings of 1947 forward brought out the charlatans, publicity seekers, and nuts, en masse.

For some reason – as yet to be really explained – UFOs have a propensity to let loose, in the land, a bevy of wackos who see the phenomenon as grist for some kind of inglorious activity, activity hat is self-aggrandizing or just plain crazy.

This is the case with the Georgia Bigfoot “find.”

That sasquatch insanity, by media and the curious, could act as a template for the UFO nonsense that surfaced years ago and still is intact and alive in a pervasively select UFO community.

Frauds, hoaxes, and other deceptions are rife in UFO circles: photos are faked, sightings are made-up, and (some) abduction scenarios are contrived.



The Roswell incident is a maelstrom of concoctions – some by the United States military and many by Roswell inhabitants who have been afflicted by a kind of mass hysteria.

[Google the 1634 Loudon affair for a Roswell precursor.]

George Adamski, and currently, Bill Meier, are two exemplars of charlatanism who capitalized on the flying saucer mystery, and Meier continues to bilk many UFO aficionados.



“Betty Andreason” is an alleged abductee who has created a case study that the Georgia Bigfoot finders mimic in a way.

Television and the internet have brought all kinds of mentally disturbed people and grifters out of the woodwork and closets.

The sasquatch/yeti contingent hasn’t been as vocal or silly as the UFO crowd, until now.

But it’s the UFO community where the most deranged people participate.

There’s something about UFOs that brings out the worst in humanity, or discombobulates human beings.

Is it the phenomenon itself that brings on the socio-psychological disruptions, creating the mental and ethical quirks that predominate in UFO-land?



Or are UFOs merely a catalyst for the seamier side of society or human behavior?

And if UFOs bring out the worst in some people, why is this so?

Why would those Bigfoot guys be so blatantly obvious in their chicanery?



And how do they typify what is generally the way it is in the UFO panoply?

This is where psychiatry can lend a hand, and social anthropologists can assist.

Reaseach into the minds of UFO sighters and especially abductees could go a long way in solving the UFO enigma, since it is mostly made up of imaginary events….mostly.

Ufological Chaos: A lack of discipline

The UFO community has totally lost it.

Almost everyone who considers himself or herself a ufologist or UFO aficionado is acting as if they are berserk.

The blogs, web-sites, articles (in some sympathetic newspapers and magazines), and conferences have proliferated to the point that the UFO mystery has become a hodge-podge of everything, including the kitchen sink.

Hypotheses, conjectures, regurgitated flying saucer stories (from all the way back to the cave-man era), and just plain nonsense have taken control of the UFO phenomenon so that any serious scrutiny of the enigma is virtually impossible.

This is symptomatic of schizophrenia, or something very much like it.

This has always been the bane of ufology: a discursive approach to the examinations and research into flying saucers and their modern counterpart, UFOs.

But today’s cacophony of noise has all but eliminated the signal, as they say.

The UFO material has been corrupted to the point that flying saucer sightings, events, and episodes are meaningless, as far as real researchers or analysts are concerned.

Sure, a small coterie of UFO nuts will continue to stoke the ufological fires but for those who think the phenomenon (or phenomena) may contain something worthwhile, even portentous, or profound, the accrued clutter is daunting.

Some of those creating the mess? Kal Korff (about to be skewered by Paul Kimball), BillyMeier, Regan Lee, Joseph Capp, Errol Bruce-Knapp, and even Stanton Friedman, among many, many more.

Again, it will take a UFO apocalypse to cleanse the debris and maniacs away.

The Death Throes of Ufology [Redux]

It’s not just the epithet “ufology” that is dying but the whole genre under that rubric.

The field of UFO study is sinking under its own weight, mostly by the tonnage of nonsense that the internet encourages.

What has happened is that a load of regurgitated UFO material now clots efforts to make sense of the UFO mystery.

Old flying saucer stories and events are being rehashed, not just by newbies but by old-timers, to the extent that ufology – a mantle we (and persons like Mac Tonnies) abhor – has become a cemetery where zombie-enthusiasts now congregate, hoping to resurrect a classic sighting or two which might harbor a clue to the UFO enigma.



A residue of UFO mavens – those who cherish the title “ufologist” – are flocking to inane UFO conferences with the purpose of forestalling the demise of the hobby they’ve invested their lives in.

Stanton Friedman is their ufological saint.



The UFO phenomenon – or phenomena – is encrusted with so much obtuse detritus that only the most rabid followers of the conundrum find it worthwhile for scrutiny, or time.

Sensible UFO aficionados (Paul Kimball for instance) have moved on pretty much, the UFO community having been subsumed by quidnuncs (Regan Lee comes to mind) and paranoid sociopaths (many named at our UFO web-site).



Yet it’s the UFO mystery itself which is leading to ufology’s comatose state: flying saucers refuse to be explained, or observed in ways that human senses can conjure with.

And the situation has gotten even more obscure as UFO sightings are more evanescent than ever, with photographs and/or video, in the ubiquitous era of YouTube, more amorphous than they should be with all the cameras extant.

While UFO vultures pick at the bones of old sightings, flying saucer archeologists (Kevin Randle) are left with a few rotting episodes, without a chance of finding or hearing about a current UFO event that proves the phenomenon still exists, in a corporeal state that matters.



Ufology is going, going, and UFOs are gone.

Those who think otherwise are in a severe state of denial which, by the way, has been the sine qua non of ufology all along.

Where is today’s McMinnville UFO?

The May 11th, 1950 flying saucer sighting and photo by Paul Trent and his wife in McMinnville, Oregon provided a clear photo of an object that looked to be alien in configuration:



But was the “object” a real space-craft, from elsewhere? Or was it a prototype by the United State’s military?

Or was it a model which ended up being a template for the Rouen, France 1954 saucer…



or the saucer seen in the 1977 photo allegedly taken in Hamburg, Germany by Walter Schilling; a photo which the UFO Iconoclast(s) once indicated was a “lost Trent photo”?



The point here is that UFOs like the Trent saucer have not been photographed since the 1950s, the Schilling UFO picture notwithstanding, which proves that the Trent photo was a contrivance (hoax) or the UFO seen was just passing through the Earth skies for a short period of time….four years or so.

(The Schilling “Trent” photo appears to be a model from analyses of the “flight pattern’ and proximity to the ground, which like the “authentic” 1950 Trent craft – exegetically examined by Bruce Maccabee – shows a bizarre angle for air maneuverability.)

So, either early UFOs transmogrified over the years, which we (and others) have suggested previously, or UFOs (flying saucers) from various places in the universe or time have appeared to Earthlings and then moved on -- some of them anyway.

Or the Trent photos were faked, along with the Rouen photo and (certainly) the Schilling 1977 photo.

(Go to UFO Casebook for a plethora of saucer/UFO photos – some authentic and many not.)

Whatever the Trent’s captured – real or not – no recent or present sightings of UFOs have produced photos as clear as the McMinnville shots.

(Well, you have seen the “drone” UFOs but can discount them immediately.)

So, we’re either back to or beyond square one in many ways….