The dearth and death of some UFO/UAP wannebes

Our pal José Antonio Caravaca offered, quite awhile back, his “Distortion Theory” that explained the mechanism(s) that UFO/UAP non-humans use to interact with humans.
 
I won’t recap José’s “theory” – it’s online, not complex, but better explained by him than others.
 
José, while offering a sensible account of the non-human modus operandi, he doesn’t, as far as I know, explain – nor has anybody – what the UFO/UAP non-humans are up to; that is, what are their intentions and ultimate purpose(s).
 
This significant information is lost on the UFO old guard, that is as defunct and non-relevant as any UFO savant-to-be has become. The UFO geezers are “dead meat” in the UAP scheme of things.
 
You know the names, even the faces: Jan Aldrich, Richard Hoffman (and his SCU cronies), Curt Collins, Gene Steinberg, David Clarke (a moody skeptic), and even some current persons in the UAP: spotlight: Ross Coulthart, George Knapp, Jeremy Corbell, Robert Bigelow, any Skinwalker Ranch promoter, the total Ancient Astronaut gang (and their History Channel abettors).
 
But, yes, the UFO podcasters, like Joe Rogan perhaps, and the YouTubers of merit, named elsewhere here – Jon Jakobs (Stories Lost), Mr. Black (Beyond Creepy), and Damon and Amy (Rope) plus The Observer ‘zine crew and, yes, Micah Hanks (with his Debrief cohorts), are currently pertinent, as is Albert Rosales (with his vast collection of humanoid encounters) plus Steve Meara (film-maker and periodicalist).
 
Jacques Vallee has become, since his Trinity book, an outlier from the UFO/flying saucer past, and whistle-blower David Grusch along with Luis Elizondo, despite his best-selling book Imminent, are already being swept into the dust bin of news media (and societal pertinence).
 
And finally, for now, I’ve dealt elsewhere with the Archive fanatics, Jan Aldrich, Isaac Koi and others who have spent and are spending their last days on Earth collecting UFO materials and flying saucer nonsense from the old days to now – Aldrich writing that it’s for historians!
 
This delusion that UFO/UAP enthusiasts will traipse to far off places to ferret out some half-ass report of a UFO sighting or event is madness.
 
With the rise of AI, every scrap of UFO/UAP detritus can be found with a click of one’s mobile device, computer, phone, tablet, watch, whatever – and the material will pop up, unencumbered by mold or dust or blurred inks and fingerprints, not to mention the coughs and crud of those in charge of the materials that some dolt had the temerity to gather.
 
This archive collection is a sop to UFOers who never made a name for themselves but hope to gain an iota of legacy via the dregs of ufology.
 
It’s not only madness but sadness too.
 
RR

Lost Legacies and Dying UFO Long-timers

 
We have ingratiated ourselves with the sensible and erudite UFO/UAP offspring of the phenomenon: The Observer gang, Stories Lost's Jon Jakobs, Beyond Creepy's"Mr. Black" and The Rope's Damon and Amy.

The 'zine Observer crew are online and print-oriented, the others YouTubers of heft and quality videos.

They represent the best in the UFO/UAP oriented community.

(My pal Anthony Braglia is fixated on what he calls the "Porn" UFO crowd using YouTube to entertain visitors to their channels: VETTED's Patrick, Ben at Craigsight, and ChaosMoogle, three zippy UFO/UAP enthusiasts I find a little too loose and silly for the serious aspect of the long-time mystery. Tony has other favorites also.)

Here I'd like to note that favorites of mine and others in the UFO community have passed from pertinence or relevance when it comes to fast-evolving UFO and now UAP matter.

The old-timers can be found on Facebook where someone made me Adminstrator of two UFO groups, one with 4500 members and another with 1500 members. I don't know how I became involved but I plug the pages with new material daily and keep the riff-raff from posting sh*t.

On FB itself, one find the UFO old-guard and its remnants: Project 1947, UFO Updates, and other detritus from the flying saucer past.

The UFO archives trying to make their efforts worthwhile as AI takes over the lifting when it comes to finding old UFO material -- accounts and reports, magazine's, newsletters, people once notable, and all other flying saucer output of the past.

Just as those archive-dedicated persons are passé so too are the forlorn archives lying dormant in places where no (new) UFO/UAP person will tread.

And persons in the UAP news fairly recently are already passé themselves -- victims of Andy Warhol's dictum of "15 minutes of fame" -- Diana Pasulka, Garry Nolan, David Grusch, AARO's one-time head Sean Kirkpatrick, the Skinwalker ranch devotees, the Ancient Astronaut pastiche of non-edifying personnel, and the once important podcasters such as Gene Steinberg (that perpetual beggar of donations and funds to keep him personally aloft) and others who's listing of names here would be a waste of my typing.

I wanted specifically to note that my one-time Anomalist pals have fallen wayside, Bill Murphy regurgitating that UAPs errancy that he once eschewed and linking the very outdated and meaningless UFO personalities that no longer matter in the UAP scheme of things -- like "Red Pill Junkie" or Nigel Watson (who cares?) or the retirement of Magonia's John Rimmer. (These people "died" when UAP became the sobriquet for UFOs.)

Anomalist's Patrick Huyghe's name came up in a telephone conference I had with my UAP newbies last week, And the queries popped up, "Who?"

The old-timers and long-timers -- like prolific and popular author" Nick Redfern -- are considered "dead" in the metaphorical sense, and many scheduled to actually die actuarially within the year.

Change has come to UFOs and this blog will continue to note and ballyhoo it.

After all, who else will set the record straight -- the UFO geezers, the UAP entertainers, the once lauded UFO hotshots, now muted by time and modernity?

RR

Mick West UFO/UAP skeptic: our favorite!?

 Luis Elizondo: UFOs, UAPs, AATIP, and TTSA

https://youtu.be/Eozxt_HnPu4?si=eSSoMVgLfwovIxKp

Response to David Fravor "debunking" me on Lex Fridman

https://youtu.be/fT1uRf5_dF4?si=ANax-WICsA7snkff

Asses!

 

Just some comments not for public notice

 Let me make some notes here….
 
Zeke provided a few interesting comments at the open blog – Conjectures -- but not in or under the topic they referred to, so they’re on hold.
 
Little input, except from Ron, for any of the items eating up (some) media and the UFO community on Reddit, Facebook, et cetera.
 
Ron continues to be flummoxed by the ongoing and perpetual nonsense of government agencies and the UFO community itself, with the likes of Dr. Greer and long-time contenders for UFO (flying saucer) attention. (I’m with him on that.)
 
Dominick continues, like Greer and other “disclosure” fans, to hope for some kind of government admittance of UFO capture and a confirmation of an ET explanation for the phenomenon.
 
It seems clear, to some of us, that any insertion of UFOs or “non-humans” into our reality, come from another aspect of reality – another dimension, or abutting universe, not another planet from interstellar space.
 
(The number of intrusions makes the hesitancy to accept a space-traveling species.)
 
 Martin Black is rather quiet.
 
And the sometimes recurring remarks from old-regulars at the open blogs – Nick Hebert and the Facebook guys I’ve pissed off for calling them out on their pseudo-scientific efforts – don’t show up at Conjectures, and they’ve gone into hiding on Facebook where I still have a few fans.
 
And speaking of Facebook, there are indications that some of the UFO geezers have intuitions that they are near death: their activities have an unconscious element of push that comes from a feeling of imminent death.
 
Malcolm Robinson, Andy Roberts, Rick Hilberg, Rich Hoffman et al. seem indulged in final moments. (I’ll have more on this shortly.)

RR

This examples the lack of self-awareness by UFO people

 

This is Cheryl Costa, a UFO almost notable. They* are a 'Trans" and a FB friend but they have no idea about how to exploit their personality or looks.

This is what disturbs me (sort of).

When UFO people display their proclivities for attention, and look loopy, that reflects on we, normal, folks who know better and are more reserved, knowing what our personal shortcomings are.

That UFOers are already savaged for being tin-foil hatters, looking goofy doesn't help the public characterizations.

* "They" is how "enlightened" media refers to trans-sexuals, the term reaching cachet just as "queer" has become the lingua franka for homosexuals/gays.

RR

Greg Bishop's interview Diana Walsh Pasulka -- Encounters takes us into a more esoteric niche in ufology. Dr. Pasulka and Greg cover her forthcoming book Encounters, which in one way continues Pasulka's remarkable American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. But Encounters is a "much deeper dive" at What's Happening at current ufology's borders by one more at home in the field. Observations on the multiplicative value of teamwork, about witness accuracy, and more challenging concepts like the "overview effect" form part of this fascinating discussion. (WM)

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Greg Bishop has been at the fringe of UFO relevance for a very long time. His pertinence is pathetic.

My pal, the Anomalist's Bill Murphy and I think my buddy Paul Kimball seem favorably disposed to Bishop, but why?

Bishop is a UFO flunky, and if you've ever heard one of his horrendously boring Radio Misterioso "programs" -- not a podcast but a smidgen of crap -- you know what I mean....

His promotion of Diana Pasulka derives from their initial contact during her work on that pitiful book of her's: American Cosmic.''

I panned the book as did Bryan Sentes, who is generally forgiving of academic efforts, but in this instance, her "Valley Girl" approach to the UFO phenomenon was a bit much.

That she hasn't made a mark in her field of academic study -- Religious History -- caused her to publish her UFO materials, where she has made an inconsequential but somewhat significant niche with persons at the fringe of Ufology, like Bishop.

Bishop promotes losers like himself, to no avail, but he persists.

That Bill Murphy sees value in him or Pasulka is distressing but there it is...

RR