Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The (crude) UAP madness continues

 https://youtu.be/337T1fWCWR4?si=iTACLNaDFPEqUJyt


More non-essental items from Bill Murphy at The Anomalist

Our former pal Bill Murphy, whose Anomalist links have now devolved into stuff that has nothing to do with the current UAP matters extant.

Here's an example from 10/15/24:

Whither UAP Data? Journal of Scientific Exploration

Channeling Allan Hendry's 1979 The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings, Chris Rutkowski (not Rutowski) considers how UFO reports stand up against six "hard questions" Hendry asked about UFO case data, in this pdf download. The answer: Not Very Well. Rutkowski does delineate what measures "are useful in helping to better understand the phenomena," within their own limitations. (Dr. Hynek's passage in the 2nd column of p.377, "...a highly subjective matter. UNCLEAR We start degree, given the circumstances..." should read "...a highly subjective matter. We start with the assessed credibility of the individuals concerned in the report, and we estimate to what degree, given the circumstances...") Bearing in mind Chris Rutkowski's admonitions, let's make our own evaluations of Tim Binnall's Study Determines Top US Cities for UFO Sightings. But, data and their statistics aside, it's the individual personal accounts that have Thom Nickels asking about UFOs -- Fact or Fiction? Specific sightings/encounters, their aftereffects on the witnesses, and theories as to cause make this more than just a question of numbers and mathematical formulas. (WM)

UFOs have moved into a reality category for enthusiasts and most of the public, but Murphy and others (as pointed out at the Facebook group I administer) are wallowing in material and efforts by long-time, no-longer relevant UFO geezers who are stuck in an outdated UFO era.

No one cares what Rutkowski or Binnall has to say or write; they are out of the UAP loop. And Murphy plus The Anomalist also, sadly.

More about this upcoming and at the active 1,500+ followers at FB's UFOs....The Ufology Network.

RR

Thursday, October 10, 2024

UFO Geezers just can't give up on old, not-news-worthy UFO accounts

From The Anomalist 10/10/2024 -- yawn:

 LIVE From the Shag Harbour UFO Expo with Martin Willis Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague and fellow UFO podcaster Martin Willis chat about this year's commemoration of the October 4, 1967, "splash landing" of "something" off of Nova Scotia. The two consider the speakers and their presentations, which weren't limited to the celebration's iconic case. Ryan and Martin enlarge their conversation to those pivotal December 2017 New York Times and Politico revelations, and what's happened in UFO discourse since then. Returning to the Expo presentations, Shag Harbour investigator Chris Styles' talk separated that 1967 event from another dramatic (this one quite scary) case, but from 1960, that's traditionally been conflated with Shag Harbour. New documentaries also get mention. One key takeaway from this dialogue is how energized both ufologists Ryan and Martin are by the wonder of what they love and do. Graeme Rendall sketches an ill-known and tragic death eerily similar to that of Captain Thomas Mantell's, but eight years later, in 1956. This Bite-Sized UFOs | A Second Mantell Incident? podcast is short but also very intriguing. (WM)

Bill Miurphy and The Anomalist can't let go of older UFO accounts and reports that most UAP people have forgotten or think -- except for a few -- are dog-eared and irrelevant.

Murphy is not alone in swimming in fetid waters. Many old-timers just can't escape the drudge of dusty, mildewed UFO stories that are devoid of anything pertinent to what we know about UFOs [UAP] in 2024,

It's a lazy way to hang on to a mystery that portends profundity when and if examined in the context of 2024.

Murphy wastes our time with links to such musty accounts and the people that continue to parade them as newsworthy or important -- they aren't..

RR

The very first Flying Saucer documentary -- 1950 -- with a 1952 "revision"

https://youtu.be/Ky9j4AXme9I?si=3OOjp7Y_MEsKFSN8

The narrtion is strikingly similar to 2024 UAP discussions.

RR

The First UFO -- Flying Saucer -- documentary : 1950 (wth a 1952 follow-up)

https://youtu.be/Ky9j4AXme9I?si=3OOjp7Y_MEsKFSN8

Note the similarity of narration with that of current 2024 UAP discussions and news items.

RR

A rare 1976 documentary that could (almost) pass for a current 2024 UAP video

 https://youtu.be/bGEzXkWAdOw?si=-4b-xNuhABIm6-jk

RR

From Times Literary Supplement [4/25/50]

  In Invisible Rulers, RenĂ©e DiResta confronts the morass of mis­information that has flooded the internet, swaying elections, harming publ...