A major ufological misstep?

It’s remarkable that persons as (allegedly) smart as Kevin Randle miss the obvious: that it’s the United States Navy that holds the keys to the UFO mystery, not the U.S. Air Force, not NSA, not the CIA, not the Army, and not any other clandestine subset of the U.S. Government.



Randle even posted, at his blog, a letter about Mogul that gave him another clue that it’s been the Navy all along that has held the UFO phenomenon close to the vest.

Randall’s Mogul letter

We’ve posted other Naval documents at our private UFO web-suite – http://ufos.homestead.com -- that indicate the Navy has investigated and is still investigating UFOs, while experiencing UFO events that no other government agency has experienced.

While the Navy’s fingerprints are all over UFO sightings, and have been since 1945 (see L. Ron Hubbard material at our web-site), for some reason, the Army-Air Force intrusion in the Roswell episode has deflected persons as (allegedly) astute as Mr. Randle, who is obsessed with Roswell, from finding the materials that might confirm for them and other ufologists that UFOs are, often, extraterrestrial craft.

Stanton Friedman has also neglected to pursue the Navy’s connection to UFOs, as has Brad Sparks, among others.



Errol Bruce-Knapp once told our mentor, Rich Reynolds, that he thought Bruce Maccabee was a Naval operative; that is, a person working on behalf of the Navy and not necessarily working as an unbiased ufologist.



We think Bruce-Knapp was and is right.

Others are starting to look more closely at the Navy’s role in UFO incidents and what that military construct is still doing regarding the UFO enigma.

But it’s the UFO old-guard that has to scratch the Navy surface before ufology’s sycophants get on board.

After all, ufology contains a plethora of sheep – persons, like Alfred Lehmberg – who can’t foster an original idea themselves but rely on ufology’s dinosaurs to provide their ideas for them.



And, for now sadly, it’s still those UFO dinosaurs that hold sway when it comes to how media and the public understand UFOs.

The Resuscitation – and Death of UFOs

The recent ABC program about UFOs [9/16, but already discarded by the network] briefly revitalized the phenomenon for the public and some in the UFO community.

But UFOs have succumbed once more, for media, the public, and many who were once enamored of flying saucers.

While the UFO old-guard – Stanton Friedman, Dick Hall, Jerry Clark, Kevin Randle. Bruce Maccabee, et al. – will never see the mystery solved in their remaining short years of life, they remain intrigued by the mystery, having spent much of their lives absorbed by it.



But the middle-ground ufologists are dispersing. Paul Kimball has moved on. Nick Redfern is spending more time on other mysteries. Greg Bishop has taken to reconstructing UFO material from times past as a game of sorts.

Yes, some über-geeks (Mac Tonnies) still pursue the enigma, but not with the intensity or wherewithal that the ufological ancients invested in it.



And that black-hole of ufology, UFO UpDates, maintained by Canuck Errol Bruce-Knapp and his minion-like stooges, is just a repository for nostalgic recollections and sour debate.



Generally, UFOs are a dead issue, like some languages (Latin) and arcane sciences (alchemy).

Even the impending influx of UFOs, predicted for mid-October, when it fails to occur, will be one more nail in the coffin of ufology and the UFO/flying saucer mystery.

We reiterate: UFOs have no impact on humanity. The never have and they never will.

The phenomenon or phenomena continues, for now, to be a mere curiosity, and not even that for science, media, or Earth’s militaries.



Like the Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot, which took a major hit because of the Georgia hoax a month or so ago, UFOs will sink into oblivion, and become a minor footnote in a few future texts that deal with the madnesses of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

From Anthony Bragalia....

THE NEED TO DISBELIEVE ROSWELL

Those who continue to study Roswell continue to be derided as having a "will to believe." Debunker Karl Pflock used the term "The Will to Believe" as part of his infamous Roswell book title. Posts on this blog often imply the same sentiment in describing those of us who study the event and its meaning.

But a far more curious dynamic is the need to disbelieve Roswell. T.S. Elliot noted that "humankind cannot bear very much reality." The reality of Roswell is one that many are simply incapable of accepting from the outset because of the very implications of such a reality.

I have previously examined what Roswell did to the individual psyches of Roswell witnesses (see posts August 26 and 15 on this site.) When society at large is required to accept the visitation of others to Earth, it requires that society collectively accept that it is in all ways inferior to these visitors.

Knee-jerk denial that such things "could simply not be" is a defense mechanism immovably put into place by some. Roswell denial shows a refusal to acknowledge a reality that is too threatening to our most fundamental sense- our sense of survival.

The Earth revolves around the Sun. But this fact was suppressed by authorities for over 200 years. When the truth was finally revealed, it caused a major upheaval in government, church, science and thought. Four centuries later we must again face the truth- we are not the Center of it All. And for many, that fact cannot and will not be beared. Instead, it will be ignored.

Another challenge to acceptance is our seemingly inherent inability to embrace what is "different." And nothing could be more utterly alien than aliens! Humans are proven unable to accept differing races, cultures, religions and nations within our own world...and certainly many would be unable to accept these things from another world! Denial of Roswell is the ultimate prejudice.

What makes Roswell researchers different than many is the knowledge that they hold deep within their hearts and minds that we are part of something larger than ourselves. Some cannot accept this and can therefore never accept Roswell. They are the modern-day self-centric, who want the Sun to revolve around the Earth no matter what.

Those unable to believe Roswell do not believe testimony. No matter how many say it, no matter who says it- no matter how the pieces now so clearly fit. They want the most Open Secret shut, because to know it would hurt too much. They ridiculously demand us to produce a physical piece of Roswell debris, or an alien corpse. They demand this because they know that it will likely never be forthcoming in their lives- allowing them to remain safe in their disbelief. Knowing that Roswell is Real frees us from ignorance. But for some, ignorance is the proverbial bliss.

With the torrent of new and credible Roswell revelations, I sense a growing worry among the disbelievers. That Roswell "happened" is now evident. Even many of the disbelievers now understand that they have no choice but to acknowledge we were lied to, and that something unusual or extraordinary did occur. Some even now admit (ironically based on the work of dedicated Roswell researchers) that it was not a weather balloon or a Mogul train. But still they must cling to their increasingly desperate belief that it had to still be in some way terrestrial. Because to think otherwise means that they would have to think of Others.

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.