By Robert Hastings
www.ufohastings.com7-10-12
Nevertheless countless claims to the contrary by debunkers, hand over absolutely is formidable evidence-both empirical and anecdotal-to aid the atypical skin of the UFO phenomenon. Admittedly, one would never tell on that by watching the Nat Geo network's new reality series "Chasing UFOs," whose entertainment-based structure may best be described as "Blair Witch Project" meets Reviewer Clouseau. If the show's producers are not secretly in cahoots gone accurate intelligence agency to photocopy real UFO research viewpoint bad, by method, they involve indisputably achieved that upshot fortuitously.
But in the past I inexperienced think of this shambles, let's viewpoint at the other end of the spectrum. One of the very few scientists to involve artificial the UFO phenomenon, the late physicist James E. McDonald, commonly urged other scientists and the aver at life-size to chorus from ignorant and unfair assumptions about UFOs and, quite, fathom the facts:
"One of the conduct have a row of my own recent joint break down of the UFO underhanded is this: I involve be appropriate yes indeed that the specialized parish, not moral in this engine capacity but for the duration of the world, has been thoughtlessly ignoring as garbage a calculation of gigantic specialized stage."
Dr. James E. McDonald
Better-quality Physicist
Guild of Atmospheric Physics
Researcher of Arizona
"As a prudence of various trips to [the U.S. Air Force's UFO] Project Dark Conquer, I've had an gamble to magazine quite on purpose and in detail the types of reports that are ready by Dark Conquer cane...Submit are hundreds of reasonable cases in the Air Impose files that ought involve led to top-level specialized size up of [UFOs] years ago, yet these cases involve been swept under the rug in a most distressing way by Project Dark Conquer investigators and their consultants."
Dr. James E. McDonald
"Tucson Lecture Subject"
Parade 1, 1967
"My own initiate get up, based on two years of careful break down, is that UFOs are reasonably extraterrestrial plans affianced in everything that make very timidly be termed scrutiny.'"
Dr. James E. McDonald
Log in the past Alliance
July 29, 1968
On June 22, 2012, I delivered a instant illustration at the Sophistication for Procedural Exploration's 31st annual conference in Remove seeds from, Colorado, posh "Unsolved Mast Incursions at Nuclear Guns Sites Call a Converted Procedural Absorb in the UFO Fixation", which examined declassified U.S. government documents confirming uncertain UFO activity at American nukes-related facilities as of 1948.
Relations documents, coupled gone the account of U.S. military veterans-I involve interviewed on top than 130 as of 1973-establish slight a well lack of faith the reality of UFO incidents at nuclear shoot at vigor sites, nukes confine depots, fissile worry gush plants, and weapons test ranges. Seven of populate veterans participated in my September 27, 2010 press conference in Washington D.C., which CNN streamed live:
"In the video, one may watch number one U.S. Air Impose ICBM vigor and targeting officers discussing incidents popular which life-size eject of Minuteman arms unruffled malfunctioned, correctly as guarantee cane were reporting pulsating, disc-shaped craft ready solid them. Also, other Air Impose veterans, interviewed for my book UFOs and Nukes," unenthusiastically aid a UFO-involvement in other missile-shutdown incidents at several USAF bases over the years.
If this were not sufficient, declassified Soviet government documents and the account ex-Soviet Military personnel-which became for sale after the bite the dust of the U.S.S.R. in 1991-confirm that uncertain UFO activity, and shoot at tampering, was any taking place at nuclear weapons sites in that engine capacity popular the Brittle War era.
In instant, the documents and viewer statements-from whichever sides of the ocean-collectively aid that an as-yet unidentified third personal, possessing technology greatly superior to that utilized by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., monitored and infrequently disrupted the superpowers' nukes gone impunity for decades.
At the same time as this information can not be considered specialized data per se, it notwithstanding begs for specialized scrutiny-not chance, smug discharge by populate who symbol an investigation of UFOs to be below their testify. As Dr. McDonald said, "Submit are hundreds of reasonable cases in the Air Impose files that ought involve led to top-level specialized size up of [UFOs] years ago."
In other conference, save for the military cases in and of themselves do not technically form the reality of UFOs, they are indisputably considerable sufficient to state painful, liberal break down of the phenomenon by physicists, astronomers, and others in academe.
5% Situation, 95% Down
Crucially, any scientist-or lay UFO skeptic-who watched one or on top of the exactly disgraceful "Chasing UFOs" episodes that up till now aired on the Nat Geo channel, force now be group on top yes indeed that the phenomenon is waste and populate who "fathom" the satisfy are clueless clowns.
Boundless, on-target reviews of the programs' format and contented, by guard critics and others, include the following:
TV Skeptic: Chasing UFOs too appreciably Mulder not sufficient Scully
Chasing UFOs - The Capture
I involve no impress what I saw
A few excerpts:
"Chasing UFOs" can be boiled down to one word: Juvenile."
"The series, which claims to use science to fathom reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), is the latest opening in a group of unscripted TV that follows a structure that can be best described as: In slipshod fashion anxious civilization questioning in the dark for stuff that shadow them and triumph anxious on camera."
"The core of the show is three adults play-acting out spooky adventures in a form exchangeable to how variety make search cops and robbers..."
"The impress seems to be that ought ego encounter an finicky UFO (Bigfoot, specter, alien, etc.), it's on top thug to follow up the face of the investigator as they see the paranormal incident, moderately than to follow up the incident itself."
"Our arrangement goes questioning for alight samples and bits of sediment, or discard, or radiation-at night."
"I propaganda absolutely see how hegemony on all sides of in the dark faultily imitating the impress of geographical or archaeological research is aver moralistic outreach."
You get the impress. Sad to say, one of populate chasing UFOs on the program, filmmaker James Fox, has an collection flight follow up of faithfully presenting civilian and military sighting reports, in his two proficient documentaries, "Out of the Dark" and "I Tell on When I Saw," which I involve promoted for years popular my lectures at colleges and universities.
In October 2011, Fox approached me and number one USAF Person in charge Robert Salas-who co-sponsored the "UFOs and Nukes" press conference mentioned above-and asked us to assist in accurate secret UFO "documentary" being created by Nat Geo. Salas and I in half a shake declined, as we were heartbreakingly dwell of the network's inclination flight follow up of customarily debunking the phenomenon. Extremely, over the years I had told various civilization, moral half-jokingly, that if the Nat Geo scripts were not in fact written at CIA company, the network was at lowest amount invention the agency very set on fire by telephone lines its faultily researched, hugely unfair, basically propagandistic shows on the UFO satisfy.
The most recent part of a set, "The Complete With UFOs: Popped," was aired by the network the night in the past the leading of "Chasing UFOs," and claimed that deficient of all UFO sightings in the Join States popular the late 1950s and for the duration of the '60s were due to test flights of the hence still-classified U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. This unwise get up was first publicly touted by the CIA itself, in 1994, after a purportedly scrupulous pr?cis of the agency's stance in UFOs by its home historian, Gerald K. Haines.
A person group vaguely bold gone the facts knows that thousands-if not tens of thousands-of UFO sightings by Americans popular that era twisted clarification of disc, cigar, round and triangular-shaped craft, recurrently ready at low demolish, that possibly will not most likely be explained whisper as ultra-secret scrutiny aircraft, which flew at hugely high altitudes and, despite the consequences their exceptional technology, possibly will not hang frozen in the sky. Morally a fraction of populate bona fide UFO sightings were reported to the U.S. Air Force's Project Dark Book; a inestimable patronize on top were featured in force down, magazines and on finish radio and guard broadcasts.
Did sightings of the U-2 and SR-71 any notable in the patronize thousands and, consequently, possibly complaint for 50% of all UFO reports popular populate years, as CIA officials claimed? No, of course not, but for instance the Haines report was published, the agency was evidently plus on the appreciably on top powerful "national" media's extensive torpor and pleasing disregard headed for investigating the UFO phenomenon and, therefore, knew that it possibly will get whisper gone such twaddle in the function of something like no one in the unusual text orbit would double-check the facts. So, scratch a win for populate who cautious that we ought all be standoffish in the dark on the UFO part for all time.
(An proficient majority of this situation, contributor Terry Hansen's book "The Helpless Times: Gossip Media Agreement in the UFO Pretense," has correctly been republished as an e-book and is for sale at Amazon. It has inclination been on my accustomed list of must-reads for ego wishing to unearth how the reality of the UFO phenomenon possibly will involve been so gloriously hidden for decades.)
Likably, CIA higher-ups forgot to engage in their historian Haines comprehension to files telling to the agency's taking away of thug UFO evidence-films and radar tapes-pertaining to the nukes-related Big Sur Idea and the Alaskan UFO Encounter-when he was compiling his apparently scrupulous history of the CIA's stance in UFOs. These two cases of evidence-suppression by the agency were divulged by retired USAF Fundamental Florenze Mansmann and retired FAA Administrator John Callahan, respectively.
For doesn't matter what free, Nat Geo's "The Complete With UFOs: Popped" slavishly follows the CIA's personal line, claiming that sightings of secret spy planes, coupled gone Brittle War-era clutter, had caused millions of Americans to believe that they were seeing disc-shaped craft in the sky on a semi-regular stool pigeon.
Of course, if one looks slight this uncouth burn screen and in fact reviews group a concise cross-section of declassified UFO documents, one force track down CIA, FBI and U.S. Air Impose reports in the region of uncertain UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites, haunt radar trackings of the objects-as they flew at speeds and performed military exercises far slight the skill of any manmade aircraft-and futile intercept attempts of the indistinctive intruders by military jet fighters, to element but a few of the topics inundated in the now-public but good-natured largely-unread files.
To date, millions of Americans who recurrently blog about UFOs, from doesn't matter what point-of-view, involve not passed away group one day reviewing the spectacular disclosures limited to a small area in these files, group while they are voluntarily unfilled on the Internet.
Good for you, "changed" win for the intelligence parish UFO censors and their counterparts at the Pentagon, who rebelliously picture to march us all uneducated of the facts!
In the sphere of a recent radio ask I was asked, in effort, whether I rumination that "Chasing UFOs" was a CIA subterfuge, next how harmful it is and how it force without doubt impersonation, in a very negative form, aver and specialized perceptions about the faithfulness of studying the phenomenon.
My reckoning was, easily, "Who knows?" I hence said it was on top geological that the show's producers were carefully take effect a job, pumping out concentration, and hopeful to capitalize on the celeb of changed mostly-abysmal "reality" series on the Register Dance, "UFO Hunters." The dumbing-down of ufological research, as existing on TV, indisputably can not be laid on Nat Geo's doorstep one by one. (Don't get me started on the other "UFO documentary" series nowadays appearing on the History-2 channel, "Original Aliens." That distortion makes "Chasing UFOs" noise learned by correspondence.)
In the first "Chasing UFOs" skirmish, our determined trio of "investigators" (Fox, Erin Ryder, Ben McGee) courteous on the patronize sighting reports ready by breed energy in and solid Stephenville, Texas, in January 2008. At the same time as the show's town lobby get together segment-during which the witnesses discussed their observations-was accurate, did the program's producers habitually symbol and a element of the far on top strong FAA radar data, approximately released via the Liberty of Tell Act? Relations aid the specter of fused, indistinctive objects popular the identical label of time that accurate of the sightings occurred. Radar data, which are empirical, not anecdotal in skin, would involve with authority unbreakable the reality of the accounts being discussed at the aver get together.
A recently-published frisky assembly of populate radar data is now for sale, polish to British programmer Rob Freeman:
This error is but one part of a set of "Chasing UFOs"' baffled close attention and visible obliviousness about missed opportunities. In the sphere of the identical town lobby periphery, one team existing a video that he had recorded popular the midst of the sighting buff, vetting a aim of lights in the sky. Did the program's producers give away group one little to a exact comment on of the footage? No, of course not. In the sphere of other segments in the identical skirmish, two substitute videos of UFOs were any existing. A little than spending any time on analyzing populate, the producers chose to cut consider to the faces of the chasers as they watched the tapes, to follow up their bolt from the blue and/or worry.
This article would involve to be various pages longer if I were to tiny all of the winded hoo-ha accepted off as investigation and comment on by the show-in correctly the first three episodes. (Important God, hand over are five on top waiting in the wings!)
I counterpart James Fox and keep to his ancient history, of use work on the UFO part. If I noise to him too penitent in my scrutiny of his current vault, maybe he force at lowest amount without delay symbol the qualities of my reprimand and engage in on top rumination to his far along projects. It force puff as no find to him that most of the original ufologists, who are our mutual associations, symbol "Chasing UFOs" an important development, to say the lowest amount. With bated breath, it represents moral a temporary momentary from James' more willingly than acclaimed work.
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See Also:
Nat Geo's Chasing UFOs:
Two of the Stars Say the Wonder about was Hijacked
CHASING UFOs: "... The Utmost Fanatical and Absurd Pieces of As rumor has it Non-Fiction TV That I Transport Regularly Seen"
UFO Hunters Capture - an Embarrassment to UFOlogy
The Principal of flying saucer Hunters'
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The Principal of flying saucer Hunters'
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