Cheesy Sci-Fi

Notice the 'Hoff?'

Recovered

Recovered from the flu a couple of days ago. For me it was a bit of a marathon virus. Had a fever for 7 days and 3 days I had elevated tempatures. After 6 days I was really fed up with being sick but my body took its sweet time unfortunately. I did have a host of symptons - fever, muscle pains, fatigue, headaches, upset stomach and blowing out the pipes - but it didn't get serious one time. I wonder why we see in the news that so many people died from H1N1 and why some young people perish from this virus. Strange and sad.

Got The Flu

I wash my hands all the time, eat fruit, take vitamin pills. But no, got the flu nonetheless. Guess it started out on friday with musclepains and I didn't think much of it at the time. Saturday morning it became pretty obvious with the shaking and fever. I'll spare you the rest of the more nasty symptons but all in all the flu is still mild.

Firewood

One of the sites I love to check out from time to time is UFOcasebook.com. Lots of films, pictures and stories concerning everything on UFOs. However, I also think the guys who run that website should look a little better at some of the photographs and stories they put up. I watched the photograph above and the first thing that came to mind was; 'bad photoshop.' I mean, just look at it in detail. No way that's a real-life object. I can see the pixel difference between the object and the landscape in a heartbeat. Beware of pranksters is what comes to mind.

Triangle Memories

Personally I've had half a dozen of decent UFO sightings. One of the first I saw was remarkably similar to the picture above although when I saw it, it was way up in the sky and all that I could see was 3 stars - in a perfect triangle - moving from south to north. This was during the time when a UFO flap occured in Belgium and where even some F-16s managed to get some footage. So I guess we're talking 1988-89 here.
I was letting a friend out the door and it was already getting dark. This was, to the best of my recollection, late afternoon in November. I was chatting with my friend just outside the frontdoor and I yawned and stretched myself. Not polite, I know. In any case when I looked up during stretching I suddenly noticed those 3 stars making a triangle - way up in the sky almost directly above me. After a second or two with my eyes still fixed on the object something else happened. Instantly those 3 stars 'go out' and in the center of that object another light 'goes on.' Then a second later it reversed and I'm looking at a triangle formation of 3 stars again. I said to my friend; 'do you see that?' He looks up and remarks; 'indeed I see something.' Next my friend almost started panicking and saying he didn't want to look at it and he excused himself. I waved goodbye to my friend and continued to watch the object move into the distant northern sky until it's out of sight.
The sighting lasted about a minute or so and even from recollection it's pretty hard to estimate altitude, size and speed of the object. It was a cloudless sky with stars already out in abundance. That's why I probably noticed the object against the static stars. And no, it wasn't an airplane. I live closeby a major airport and I see plains taking off and landing practically on a daily basis. Those lights are pretty familiar, as is the sound of the jet engines. Yet the object I saw made no sound whatsoever. Probably the weirdest thing of all was the 'changing of the lights' while I was staring directly at it.

Couple of years later I had another sighting although the circumstances were somewhat different and at the time I didn't give it much attention, untill a few days later that is. It was during the summer months and in the evening that I decided to go out into town. I got on my bicycle and made my way to the city center where all the clubs and bars are. I was riding along side a canal when I noticed a bright pinkish light in the southern skies. It was so bright that it literally lit up the clouds in front and to the back of it. The object was behind a cloud but so bright that the light easily came through it. You get an effect similar to watching mountain ridges in the distance overlapping eachother. My first thought was that it must be fireworks, or somebody shooting up a flare. Pink UFO didn't come to mind that easily. I continued to watch that object until I reached my destination. This was on a saturday and on monday I was browsing through the local newspaper and I come across an article where people had sighted a UFO on saturday evening. Several people claimed they saw a huge pink flying triangle in the sky. It's not unreasonable to assume that it was the same thing that I saw.
I also recall that the pink triangle caused some jokes since the gay movement at that time used to same symbol for their organization. Gay aliens and so on. . .

Mac Vs PC

Deja Vu

You know, with the current economic crisis there's a lot of talk in the news that things are turning brighter. On the other hand, some folks say that the worst is still to come. I'm not an economic expert but I ran across these pictures on another forum and the vintage newspaper articles are remarkable, if not identical to what's going on in the media today. Go have a look. Top article is from 1929, bottom from 1934. Seems to me that history is repeating itself.

Pearl Jam - Amongst The Waves

By far the best track from their new album Backspacer.

So Say We All!

Been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica season 4 lately. Did see it before but just had to buy the dvd box last week. Already got the mini-series and the first 3 seasons so that was a no-brainer. What an awesome show. Every sci-fi fan should have seen this show. Great acting, great story, great SFX. And if you're a guy like me, great babes.

But I'm afraid my fetish runs a bit deeper. Don't know what it is but women in sci-fi have an edge, for me that is. Stick 'em in a spacesuit and I'm sold. But Tricia Helfer and Grace Park did a wonderful job on Battlestar Galactica, and they just happen to look good in bikini as well. Right? So say we all!

Cop Sees Nordics Near Crop Circle

A police officer contacted British UFO experts after seeing three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle near Avebury, Wiltshire.
The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figures standing in a field near Silbury Hill, and stopped his car to investigate. However, as he approached the 'men' – all over 6ft tall with blond hair – he heard "the sound of static electricity" and the trio ran away ''faster than any man he had ever seen''.
The officer returned to his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO. Wiltshire Police has refused to comment on the incident, saying it is a ''personal matter'' for the officer involved.
Crop circle researcher Andrew Russell, who is investigating the bizarre sighting on behalf of the officer, described the moment his sighting was made. He said: ''At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field. ''The figures were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be inspecting the crop. When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.
''This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was.
''He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running. ''He said; 'They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I'm no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone. ''I then got scared. The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car. For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn't shift.'' The bizarre incident occurred on the morning of July 6 this year as the police officer was driving.
The officer claims the three figures were examining a crop circle, which had appeared several days earlier, when he stopped his car and began walking towards them. However, the mysterious beings disappeared when he ''looked away for a second'' and he contacted UFO experts after witnessing other paranormal activity. A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said: ''The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.''
Crop circle expert Colin Andrews, who investigated the incident alongside Andrew Russell, said he is ''convinced'' by the police officer's story. He said: ''I am quite convinced the officer had an experience that day and one that we have not fully explored.
''I think with the unusual movement of the being and the poltergeist experiences there is too much additional information to say that is something in nothing.''
(Original story can be found here.)

A similar story can be found here.

The Money Masters

This 3.5 hour, fast-paced, non-fiction, historical documentary explains how international bankers manipulate America.
Produced by Patrick Carmack. Directed and narrated by Bill Still.

Mir UFO

Intriquing footage taken from the Mir space station. To my knowledge rocket boosters or upper stage rockets don't reach that high, and they (launch control) certainly wouldn't bring space objects so close together especially in the middle of a docking procedure. Maybe it's a piece of space debri but it's definitely a UFO, Unidentified Flying Object.

Bad Boy!

Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire and hedgefund manager, couldn't resist the temptation to cheat. He was arrested for leading a group that traded stock with fore-knowledge. Bad boy! Rajaratnam who headed a hedgefund called Galleon - worth 350 billion dollar - is out on the street again after posting bail (100 million dollar). 5 other people were arrested as well. Just goes to show you that scum can wear expensive suits.

America - Freedom To Fascism

America - Freedom To Fascism Part 1 Of 11.

White Sands UFO(?) Crash, NM 1996

Saw this video clip in the tv documentary 'Out Of The Blue' and it depicts a crash of some aerial vehicle. The site itself where the footage was taken raises questions about the origin of the object. White Sands is home to a missile range and many new types of missiles and rockets were and are tested there. My guess is that we are looking at a missile here but the footage itself could be easily interpreted as a UFO crashing, and to be honest I'm not totally convinced either way.
Normally a (high explosive) missile would break up on impact immediately and not skid of the ground for a second try. Reading a counter argument from the internet, it could also have been a structurally reinforced missile. Those types that are designed for bunker-busting or ground penetration. Exactly 2 seconds in the video after the object hit the ground and is moving upwards again you can see a line above the light which could very well be dirt picked up from the ground. For a moment I thought it might have shown the upper structure of the craft.
Searching the internet for details surrounding this footage I wasn't able to locate the source. Lots of opinions by people though which are interesting in itself because it shows how people handle the film. Some UFO researchers claimed this was an actual UFO crash, others claim it is a missile test and finally some people claim it was a hoax (by some artist). It takes on many avenues. I'm going to be a coward for now and remain undecided.

UFO Documentary - Out Of The Blue

Out Of The Blue Part 1/9
Fine documentary about UFOs. Too bad there aren't more like these on the tv channels. I think there's a sequel (from the same producers), I Know What I Saw, coming out this month.

Another Domed Disc

Ran across these pictures on a forum. These were taken in the U.S. on the 28 of March, 1974. A 16 year old man by the name of Robert Schwier allegedly took these pictures. It's pretty hard to find information about the photographs but through an internet translator I get something like this (from a French UFO site).
Robert Schwier, 16, a member of a photo club was visiting the city park. He had already taken a few photographs and around 3 P.M. he reached a clearing. Suddenly he heard a low humming sound. Over the top of the trees there was a silver dome shaped object that sparked. When the object began to rise the young man took his first picture. He managed to take 3 photographs in total. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. The diameter of the object was estimated to be between 5 to 8 meters. No apparent propulsion system was visible. The craft carried out unbelievable maneuvers.
Below is a blow-up of the object, from the 3 photographs.

Zeitgeist - The Federal Reserve

Bigfoot?

Udo Wartena

S. Gill Williamson
Udo Wartena Letter - html transcription of original (West Linn, Oregon, 1980)
In the forepart of May 1940, I had gone upon the mountain and found a glacier deposit. And from all indications had every possibility of carrying values. As I was working part-time for the Northwest Mining Co., I could only prospect on my days off. So it was into the summer before I could prove the ground. There were a lot of large boulders to move but when I got to bedrock, I found some fine gold.

As I would need water for washing the material, I figured it was wise to bring the water down to where I could use it. The early day miners had dug a ditch around the mountain side (this was over sixty years before my time), so after clearing the logs and large trash out of it, I diverted the water out of the creek, into the ditch. As the ditch had not been used these many years, it was quite a mess. The ditch was practically level for the first quarter of a mile, so it was late in the afternoon by the time it would flow freely. The next morning I cleaned the main ditch to where I put in a dam. Then, dug a ditch to where I could use the water. As the work for the Northwest Mining Co. had picked up, I wasn't able to work the prospect too much. Though every spare day I had was used there. I still had some large boulders to move and while doing this one morning I heard a noise.
Like that of a high flying plane, as army planes flying over, from Great Falls. At first I didn't take much note, but as the noise continued, I thought a car had driven up. So I got upon higher ground. I saw, where I had put the dam in the main ditch, a large (I will call it ship). It looked like a blimp, only more pointed on each end, and not as thick through the middle. About 35' thick, better than 100' long. As I stood there, a stairway was let down and a man came down this and started walking towards me. As I was somewhat more than interested, I went to meet him. He stopped when we were about ten or twelve feet apart.

He was a nice looking man, seemingly about my age, 35 or more. He wore a light gray pair of coveralls, a tam of the same material on his head, and on his feet were slippers or moccasins. He asked me if it would be alright if they took some of the water. I could not see why not, I said sure. He then gave a signal and a hose or pipe was let down. His English was like mine, but he spoke slowly, as if he was a linguist. He asked me what I was doing. I explained this to him. He asked me if I would be
interested to come aboard. As he seemed an intelligent and pleasant person, I figured it would be interesting. As we got closer to the ship, I noticed that it was round, like two dinner plates, one inverted over the other. It seemed to be made of metal. As I look back and compare, it seemed like stainless steel, though not bright or shiny. The ship appeared to be about 35' thick and well over a hundred feet in diameter. When we got into the ship, we entered into a room about twelve by sixteen feet, with a close fitting door on the farther end. Indirect lighting near the ceiling, and nice upholstered benches around the sides. There was an older man in the room, plainly dressed and with white hair. It was then that I noticed that the younger man also had white hair. Somehow I believe they knew who I was, but they did not introduce themselves. Perhaps if they had, I may have been a bit upset. The younger man asked me what I would be interested in. So I first asked why they wanted this particular water. He said the water is good, as if they had gotten the same before, and it was convenient.

After we had entered the ship, I had noticed that the sound I had heard outside, was hardly noticeable, except what came up the stairwell. So I asked him what caused the noise or humming. He said this would be a bit complicated, but he would try to explain so I could understand. He said as you noticed we are floating above the ground, and though the ground slopes, the ship is level. There are in the outside rim of the ship two flywheels one turning one way and the other the opposite direction. He explained that this gives the ship its own gravitation, or rather overcomes the gravitational pull of the earth, other planets or the sun or stars. And though this pull is light, we use this gravitational pull of the stars and planets to ride on. He went into somewhat greater detail on the power development by these two flywheels. He mentioned something about them developing an electromagnetic force. As this was quite new to me and he realized that, but he saw I had gotten the picture, so he stopped.
I asked him where he got the energy to run the ship. He said from the sun and stars, and he would store this in batteries, though this was for emergency use. I also asked him what their object was or purpose in coming here. Well, he said, as you have noticed, we look pretty much as you do, so we mingle with you people, gather information, leave instructions, or give help where needed. I would have liked to ask him more about that, but didn't feel this proper, so let it ride at that. While we had been talking, a light had come on apparently signaling that the water had been taken care of. When I felt it was time for me to leave, I mentioned this. He asked me if I would be interested in going with them. I said that I thought it would be interesting to go with them but it would inconvenience too many people. Later I wondered why I had said that.

As I started to leave, they suggested that I tell no one, as no one would believe me at that time, but in years to come I could tell about this experience. When I walked away from the ship, they raised the stairway, and when I got a couple of hundred feet away from the ship, I turned around. A number more portholes had opened up and though I could see no one, I felt sure they saw me. Anyway, I waved at them. The ship then rose straight up, then while circling slightly it continued going straight and in a very short while was completely out of sight. As I didn't have a watch, I did not know how long I had been with them. It was
around noon so it must have been about two hours from the time I first saw the ship. This whole experience was so overwhelming that I did not go back to work. I kept going over in my mind all that had happened. I went back to where the stairway had been and though it hadn't gone into the soil, the grass was crushed down. I wondered at the time, why I hadn't accepted the invitation to go with them but instead had said "that it would inconvenience too many people". I then recollected an incident which happened a few years before I came to this district. A young man was staying with an old prospector, and early one morning before eating he put on a light jacket and told the man he would be gone for a while. When the young man did not show up all that next day or the next, the old prospector notified the Sheriff, and he with his deputies and about forty C.C.C. boys looked all over for him, but no trace was found. I have wondered if he might have accepted an invitation to board a ship similar to mine. I have wondered at times if this could have all been in my imagination. But then again I saw the impression of the ship in the grass.

Then over the years a number of things have come to mind. The explanation of how this ship moved, seemingly not affected by earths gravitational pull. From what the man told me at the time and what has come to me since, I believe I am not too far from an answer to this. It is for this reason I am writing to you. No doubt with the help of some other minds, the answer will be forthcoming. We have just about reached the stage where we need a different type of air transportation and this is the answer. I feel confident that you could put me in touch with some people who could help to this end.
Udo Wartena
West Linn, Oregon
1980
[Letter written to Senator John Glenn. A copy was given by Udo to John Dell.]

Captured Alien In Mexico?

Just ran across an article where it is claimed that some folks found an alien in one of their traps in Mexico (2007), and it was still alive. Not for long though, according to the story they held it under water for 2 hours until it stopped moving. Here's a short (German) movie clip from YouTube on this subject. Jaime Maussan seems to be involved with the research.

Dude, Where's My Car? III

A woman was parking her Suzuki Ignis automatic and just put her foot on the gas a bit too much.

Whistleblowers

Cliff Stone and Robert Dean talk about their dealings with UFO material while they were in the military. A real eye-opener.

Corporate Hitmen

See the workings of the military/industrial complex.

WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

The story is continued here.

Upcoming Contactee Book

Nick Redfern's new book 'Contactees - A History of Alien-Human Interaction', is scheduled to be released in December, 2009. Hopefully it will be a good read.

Back In Print

Just read on UFO Mystic that an old Adamski book - Pioneers Of Space - has been republished and updated. Timothy Green Beckley seems to be the man behind this endeavour. Hope he got the copyright sorted out.

Ferengi

(From A.P.) The economic crisis wasn't an obstruction for some top executives in the United States to earn hundreds of millions of dollars. Thursday, Corporate Library, a shareholders organization, published their findings.

The Library list is headed by Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, who earned just under 700 million dollars in 2008. Second is Lawrence Ellison of the Oracle Group (543 million dollar), and third Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum (222 million). Most firms in the top-10 are energy companies. Corporate Library does state that the high rewards are not in comparison with the performances, because the companies values have declined.

Pearl Jam - The Fixer

Single 'The Fixer', to be released in September from Pearl Jam's new album 'Backspacer'.

Economic Hitmen II

(From Wikipedia;)

As a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, John Perkins says that he "was an 'economic hit man' for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinational corporations cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
After several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a successful independent energy company. In the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Perkins states that he suspects the success of his company was due to 'coincidences' orchestrated by those appreciative of his silence about the work he did as an economic hit man. He then sold the energy company in the late 1980s. Since then he has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations in Ecuador and around the world. He continues this work today, in addition to his writing. One of his organizations, Dream Change, is dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles for the individual and global community.

Here's a site summarizing his book.

Economic Hitmen

In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. Journalist John T. Flynn and Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler wrote:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Zeitgeist - RFID Chip

See what the likes of Rockefeller have in store for us.

Zeitgeist 2

Oh, you thought you were free? Watch this documentary and see who's in control and how.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe -
1749 - 1832

Fractal IV

Bill Hamilton & The Early Contactees

Here's a website that displays chapter 1 from Bill Hamilton's book Alien Magic. (Have the book myself.) Like other people at the time Bill Hamilton did a lot of research on the early contactees. Sometimes fascinating, often bizarre, Bill tells all. Here's an excerpt;

During the summer of 1959, the twins Ray and Rex Stanford paid a visit to Giant Rock. Ray and Rex claimed mental contact with the "Brothers." Ray was instructed to bring a movie camera with him as the Brothers were going to make a showing over the desert in one of their Master Craft (crescent-shaped). Ray did succeed in capturing something unusual on film. A brightly-glowing object descended from the sky that afternoon and was promptly followed by a jet interceptor. In the film, you can see the object "jump," leaving the jet crawling behind it.

Later, I drove Ray and Rex from Giant Rock to Mount Palomar to visit the famous George Adamski. Ray and Adamski argued about the function of the Master Craft. Adamski had taken us back to a small workshop where he was doing some experiments with magnets. Although Ray claims that Adamski virtually admitted that he had no need of contacts to describe what he had written in his books, I received no such impression from the man. Later, I interviewed witnesses to Adamski's contacts who described details of incidents without hesitation. Many others had described seeing the scout ships at close range. In 1957, I had seen an orange-glowing craft one night that had the same bell-shaped configuration as the one Adamski photographed. If Adamski had been constructing small models of this craft, then the large-sized original was making its appearance known in various parts of the world. After their visit with Adamski, Ray and Rex seemed to become disillusioned with contactees and even downplayed their own reported experiences.

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Frank Halstead Sighting

1955: Huge Cigar-Shaped UFO Seen Over Death Valley
On November 1, 1955, astronomer Frank Halstead, the director of Darling Observatory in Duluth, Minnesota, and his wife, Ann, were traveling to California aboard the Challenger, an express train of the Union Pacific Railroad. As the train sped across Death Valley in eastern California, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Las Vegas, Nevada, the couple spied a UFO. Here's the story in Frank Halstead's own words:
"My wife Ann was sitting next to the window and she called my attention to an object which she saw -- something moving just above the (Panamint) mountain range. Our train was running parallel to this range of mountains, and this thing was moving in the same direction as the train, just above the mountains."
"At first I thought the thing was a blimp -- you know, one of those cigar-shaped dirigibles... But as I watched it, I realized that it could not be a blimp -- they are only about two hundred feet long -- and this thing was gigantic. It was about eight hundred feet long. I could estimate that because it was so close to the mountain range, where trees and clumps of trees were visible for comparison."
"While Ann and I were watching this cigar-shaped thing -- for four or five minutes as it paced the train -- we noticed that another object had joined it. This second object appeared very suddenly in back of the first one -- behind it, that is.""It was a disc-shaped thing. In fact, both objects were very shiny, we noticed. But this second one was definitely disc-shaped. If my estimate on the size of the first object was approximately correct, then this disc would have been one hundred feet in diameter -- flat on the bottom with a low dome on the top side.""My wife and I watched the pair of them for approximately two -- maybe three -- minutes. They were moving at about the speed of the train and they seemed very close to the top of the ridge -- not more than five hundred feet above it, I should say. Then they began to rise, slowly at first, and a few seconds later, much faster. In a matter of seconds, fifteen or twenty, they had risen so high that we could no longer see them from our train window."
(See Flying Saucers: Serious Business by Frank Edwards, Bantam Books, New York, NY 1966, pages 20 and 21)

Check out this website of sightings by astronomers.

Richard Jeni

(Warning: video contains strong language!)
Last night I watched this brilliant performance by the late Richard Jeni on Comedy Central. Above is one of the best sketches I've ever seen and between 6:00 - 6:42 Richard states some remarkable truthful insights. Really sad that such a brilliant performer didn't make it.

Stanford & Adamski II

Ray Stanford was kind enough to respond in the comment section of my previous post. I also made the mistake assuming 'they' were all having drinks and I want to apologise for that to Ray. Being European and not fully knowledgable about American slang I also assumed 'eggnog' was some strong alcoholic concoction but despite that Ray clearly points out he had no intake of that whatsoever. I'll continue my comments after Ray's post.

I should correct "Ed V"'s statement that my twin brother and I were drinking with Adamski the morning he exposed his lies about physical contact with human-like aliens and photographing their craft during contacts.

Rex and I were not consuming ALCOHOL in any form. We were in our late teens extreme 'heath-food fanatics'' and we would not have taken any alcohol whatsoever. Although Ed V doesn't say so, it was eggnog Adamski was drinking. Rex and I drank water while Adamski drank several cups of eggnog. Yeah, yeah, we were DRINKING TOGETHER! :o)

As to Ed V's seeming wish that my account to Greg Bishop might be flawed by old and thus distorted memory, that isincorrect. I began right away, in my teens, exposing what Adamski had told and shown us (such as how he faked the mothership photos), so that in the late '50s, I became the hated enemy of contactee supporters.

My files of copies of letters I wrote soon afterward and have written from time to time since then, contain proof that time has not distorted my memory. The premier UFO historian, Jerry Clark, can confirm that I told him about Adamski's confessions decades ago.

It was Adamski's kind-hearted confession to us (I think he didn't want to see us teenagers waste our potentially productive lives wrapped up in his hoaxes.) that made me, afterward, even more determined to record UFOs and their propulsion physics with high-resolution cameras, recording magnetometer, recording gravimeter, spectrum camera, high-resolution audio recording, etc. My project and I have succeed in using all such equipment.

And, by the way, that part of Adamski's confession (that he never had any physical contacts) was made to Rex and me that morning BEFORE Alice had even finished making Adamski's very first cup of eggnog. It was after we came back from looking at Adamski's earliest book, Pioneers of Space, that Adamski drank several eggnogs and told us about, and took us into, his "lab". He wasn't visibly intoxicated at any time, but could have been a bit loosened up from the alcohol.

Finally, keep in mind that when someone has believed things like Adamski's Polish lampshade (aka, "scout ship") photos, and happens to see a domed disc in the sky, there is the perceptual tendency to perceive things in familiar or desired terms. It is unsurprising that while Adamski's photos were being frequently seen in the media, some were misinterpreting the domed disc they saw as closely resembling like the clearer photo images Adamski had provided. To not consider that scientifically demonstrated fact about perception is to display ignorance of human nature. As to persons faking photos deliberately to resemble Adamski's lamp shade (with ping pong balls glued on), as I said on Greg's Radio Mysterioso, Howard Menger crudely painted his 'scout ship' and did obvious 'table-top' photography for his 'on the moon' photos. I notice you didn't mention the Stephen Darbishire 'scout photos' so touted by Leonard Cramp. :) They were a better painted fake than Menger could ever have produced, and Stephen Darbishire's subsequent statements have made the hoax clear to anyone but fools. By the way, Stephen Darbyshire has grown up to be a professional ARTIST. See: http://www.stephen-darbishire.com/

Because of my working at least twelve hours per day toward my project's scientifically diagnostic UFO hard evidence presentation, and preparing materials for the display of my new taxon (genus and species) of dinosaur (a hatchling nodosaur) at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., later this year, I cannot take time to write out all I'd like to tell you, about the Adamski matter, Ed V. Yard".

Ray Stanford

The essence of my previous blogpost on Ray Stanford was (and is) - 'aren't matters taken out of context'. That's it. Let me make myself clear on a number of issues. I'm not claiming your memory is impaired after so many years (and besides, you reported the incident right away at the time). I believe people always capture 'the moment'. If 10 people witness a car accident, you might get differences in detail but all 10 people report the accident and not a pink elefant crashing (that is if they are not on powerful halluciogenics). Memory doesn't have to be impaired and my remark to it in my previous post was more a swipe against mindless debunking then claiming your testimony is unvalid because of the time that has passed. I guess I wasn't clear enough on that one.

I also want to clarify my position on Adamski a bit more. Do I believe everything in the Adamski case is true? No. Did Adamski exaggerate? Yes. Is everything false in the case? No. At the heart of the matter something genuine was going on, that's my take on it. There are a number positive testimonies and unusual incidents which point to that, and which I feel is blatantly ignored by many people. I'll get back to that later.
What I find so strange Ray is that you had experiences of your own yet often you reach a negative conclusion about another person. You spoke on Greg Bishop's show that you conducted a telepathic experiment on the beach and saw a UFO appear. I have no problem with that. In fact, and here comes another kicker, a number of people tried that and had surprising results. Some people even made telepathic requests wanting to see the 'ufonauts' and had strange experiences. Here's one from a fellow named David Hughes Narborough. This is one of ufology's open secrets. If you go out and make requests, you can get exactly what you ask for. . .

I realise that if you want to portray yourself as a bonafide researcher you have to display a degree of skepticism in your work. There is such a thing as peer review in ufology and naturally the emphasis should be on evidence. However eyewitness testimony shouldn't be discarded as irrelevant. If 10 people report a strange occurrence in similar detail, it becomes increasingly likely that the event actually transpired and that's also a point I want to make here. Aside from damaging testimonies regarding George Adamski (such as the one you make), there are a number of supporting testimonies. Lucy McGinnis had this to say during an interview in 1979;

"Here came this great big ship that looked like a dirigible. And George said, quick, get me up there. I want to go
and set up the telescope. So I drove him and Al Bailey up to where he said we should go. I kept looking out of the car and that
ship turned and just followed us. And he said, here stop! So I stopped, and he got out, and that dirigible stopped - quite a ways away. I couldn't very well judge how far away it was. And he set up the telescope. And after he got everything set up, he said, Now you go back."
"My attention was attracted by a flash in the sky and almost instantly a beautifull small craft appeared to be drifting through a
saddle between two of the mountain peaks and settling silently into one of the coves about half a mile from me. It did not lower itself entirely below the crest, while the upper, or dome section, remained above the crest and in full sight of the rest of my party who were back there watching. Yet it was in such a position that I could see the entire ship"
"You couldn't see very much detail that far away, they were far away enough to look like fenceposts. But they stood talking to each other, and we saw them turn and go back to the ship. Now I didn't see (Orthon) get into the ship. And when it left, it was just like a bubble or kind of like bright light that lifted up. Then George went out on the highway and he motioned for us to come out. He told us that he got too close and his arm had caught in the radiation from the craft. And he suffered from that quite for a while. . . You could see where the two of them had walked on the ground. There's no question about that at all."

Here's a comment from Bill Hamilton regarding Alice K. Wells;

I met Adamski and stayed the weekend at Palomar Gardens in 1969. Years later I interviewed Alice Wells for about 4 hours. She was very sincere and vouched for all that was written in that first book and described the mother ship to me in some detail. She told me about an orange oval symbol on the side of the mother ship and how jets came in and it moved on. She declared that she could see "Orthon" clearly through the binoculars. She also recited the story of another visitor that appeared in the little restaurant at Palomar Gardens one day and answered all the questions about what it was like to travel in space.

These 2 comments, made years after the event, are still supportive of the original claim. No kind off retraction like in the case of George H. Williamson. But lets expand beyond the confines of Adamski's inner circle. A mister Alan Tollman, a retired aerospace engineer, claims to have witnessed events on the Palomar Gardens property. Here's his affidavit in his own words;

" In 1956, I was visiting George Adamski. One night, he let me use his telescope and while looking through the scope, I saw a bluish streak that filled the field of view. I quickly looked up but saw nothing. Suddenly, I saw a blue white glow, elliptical in shape just beyond the grove of trees. George was talking to friends in his house. I walked toward the craft and as I got closer, could hear the soft, pleasing "humming" sound. At about 100 yards from the craft, I heard people from the restaurant down hill from George's house yelling loudly, " there is a UFO on the ground." From the restaurant, the people had an unobstructed view of the craft. Suddenly, a man from the restaurant almost knocked me down, saying " there is a UFO out there" and then disappeared. The craft increased in brightness, going from blue white to intense white that seemed to shimmer. The hum sound increased in frequency, until I could not hear it anymore. The craft shot straight up making no noise, into the stars, until it looked just like a star. It then shot off horizontally to the horizon. I went in to George's house and told him what had happened. He said he heard all the ruckus outside, and then just look at me and smiled."

Laura Mundo, a hired promoter for Adamski, had this to say;

Despite that I went on to promote his out-of-town lectures for several years and in time I had my own proof beyond my intuition, of his authenticity. The same type of bell-like saucer he had photographed over his home in California came over my home in Dearborn, Michigan, later in 1954.

Madeline Rodeffer, who became friends with Adamski much later on in time, had this to remark about the footage taken in Silver Spring, 1965;


Lets hop around the world shall we;

'I never thought I would see a flying saucer, much less photograph one,' said Lima architect Hugo Luyo Vega, following the sighting of an unknown flying machine, identical to George Adamski's 'scoutcraft', which Vega photographed on 19 October 1973. On the day in question, Vega had taken a client into the Lima countryside in search of a home site. They had driven about 54 miles inland along the Rimac River when they took a break near a valley surrounded by tall hills. Suddenly, Vega told reporters, 'my client, obviously exicted, told me he saw a shining object in the bottom of the valley that was advancing towards us extremely slowly.'

"The car was not far away. I ran back for my camera, because in that fraction of a second I thought I, too, had seen something interesting. When I pointed my [Polaroid] camera and took the picture, the object was less than 50 yards away from us and about 20 yards off the ground. Suddenly, the object changed direction, headed toward the east and increased its speed. It rose off the ground as if trying to avoid some high-tension wires that came down from the top of one of the hills and crossed the valley, and disappeared from view. It was of the colour of burnished silver [and] shaped like an overturned soup plate with a cupola on top. At the very top of the cupola, there was a round object giving off a fixed, sky-blue light. Lower on the cupola, we could see a row of small windows like port-holes in a ship."

On the bottom of the craft was what appeared to be 'the propulsive force of the object. . . a dark red throbbing light that was aimed toward the ground from a sort of turbine in the middle of the upside-down plate. Near the turbine-like part, we could see protuberances like half-eggs.' The architect said that only about 30 seconds from the time they spotted the object until it disappeared. 'For a moment I didn't actually think the picture would come out all right, for I don't consider myself all that good a photographer, and I was greatly surprised when I saw that it had come out,' Vega continued. 'All the photo showed was the thing's shape, but at any rate this little piece of evidence is enough to prove that it was a real "UFO" and not an invention of the mind.' It took the witnesses some 20 minutes to recover from their astonishment. Vega was reluctant to disclose the identity of his client. 'He is a wealthy man who prefers no publicity,' he explained.

Off to 'John Bull' country;

On a January night in 1978 Sergeant Tony Dodd and Police Constable Alan Dale were driving in the vicinity of Cononley, near Skipton, Yorkshire, in their official line of duty, when a strange aerial machine came into view. 'We were going down a country lane,' Sergeant Dodd explained, 'and you know what it's like up there - it was dark - and the only light you've got is your headlights. Suddenly the road in front of us lit up. Of course, the immediate reaction is, where's the light coming from? But it was coming from above. We stopped the car, looked up, and there was this thing coming from our right to our left.' The object was about 100 feet away, moving at less than 40 mph.' It was glowing; like a bright white incandescent glow, and it came right over our heads,' the police sergeant recalled.' The whole unit was glowing. It was as if the metal of what this thing was made of was white hot. And there were these three great spheres underneath, like huge ball-bearings - three of them equally placed around it. There was a hollow area underneath and like a skirting around the bottom, but these things protruded below that.' It was absolutely awe-inspiring to see it. I don't know how to explain it to you - it was such a beautiful-looking thing. It seemed to have portholes round the dome - an elongated domed area. And what stood out more than anything else was the coloured lights dancing round on the outside of the skirt at the bottom. . . which gave the visual impression that it was rotating. Now whether the thing was going round, or whether it was just the lights that were going round and give that impression, I don't know.I would say it was the lights that were going round because, when you were looking at the portholes, they didn't seem to be going round in a circle as you would have expected.' The object was completely soundless. 'When the thing had passed over our heads it sort of went into the distance then suddenly appeared to come down: there's a big wood to our left, right on a distant hillside, and it appeared to go down in that wood,' said Sergeant
Dodd, who added that a third police officer had seen the object. 'We carried on along this road and as we got towards the village we could see these lights coming towards us from the other direction - it was another police car. We stopped, and he said, "I've just been watching this damn great UFO, and it seems to have come right down somewhere over here!

And Down Under;

My first sighting took place in Stawell, Victoria Australia, in about 1958. (Boy, how does anyone remember back that far.) I was around eleven years of age and it was probably spring or summer of that year as it was a fine cloudless day. Not usual at all, in the other months of the year. I remember the occurrence vividly. It was 11:30 AM and I was about to leave the house by the front door. This door faces due west and if not for the house across the street it would have been possible to see the Grampians Mountains around 20 Km away. As I left the house, I noticed a gleaming silver object the size of a dot at an elevation of 15 to 20 degrees dead ahead of me. It was later estimated by all witnesses to be around 10 Km distant which would mean its height would have been around 1,500 to 2,000 feet. It was giving off a series of repeated bright lights from underneath, Blue, Red, Green, White, in that order. I couldn't see what the “dot” was, but it was hovering in the one spot without moving. I watched it for a few minutes and then called my parents who came and saw the same thing as I did. After a while we called the neighbors from across the street, who brought over their tripod mounted telescope. It was only a 4 inch 'scope but it brought the object into clear and undisputed view. It was a classic early 1950s flying saucer.
A flat bottomed disc with a turret type dome on top with windows and the old 3 ball type undercarriage protrusions beneath it. The flashing lights were coming from a point directly under the middle of the disc. I had seen pictures of the original flying saucers, which by that time, had been resoundingly debunked by officialdom and ridiculed by the press so I was not a stranger to what it was. Nor were my parents and my neighbors. There was one difference I noted from the pictures though. Where the old pictures showed round porthole type windows, this craft had vertically elongated rectangular windows with rounded tops. Just like the narrow church windows you sometimes see. All of us watched that disc hovering there without movement or change until after 1 PM, almost 2 hours. Having other things to do, we gradually broke up and went away and the next time I looked for it, it was gone. With multiple witnesses watching this UFO in daylight for such a long period through a telescope, I conclude that there is no doubt it was an alien constructed flying machine. What its reasons for being there and all the other question as to where it came from, etc., remain unknown, but one thing is for sure…. It shaped my belief in the phenomenon for the rest of my life. Brad Mildern January 5, 2004

Hugo Vega, 1973

Here's my problem Ray. I have your testimony where Adamski spills his guts out and confesses the whole thing is a hoax, and I have many people (independently) claiming the exact opposite. Those few anecdotes I listed above are just the tip of the iceberg. There are more on file (and on the internet) and there's no telling how many testimonies got 'lost' over time or where people never made their story public. If 10 people report a car accident and 1 person claims nothing happend, who am I to believe? If this was a court case, and 10 people point to one perp, and one person says that perp didn't do it (because the perp said so!), how would the jury react?
I also have problems with your statement that "there is the perceptual tendency to perceive things in familiar or desired terms". Adamski's "scoutcraft" is so distinct that it is hard to imagine that people would mistake its form. There are eyewitness accounts where people clearly notice distinct features such as the 3 ball underside, just look at the qoutes above. Then there are also people who didn't report seeing the 'scoutcraft' but some strange light or other anomaly while their observations are associated with the case. It's more complicated, not to mention simplistic to label such observations as "perceptual tendencies".

You assert that "Howard Menger crudely painted his 'scout ship' and did obvious 'table-top' photography for his 'on the moon' photos". Really Ray! If I didn't know any better I would say such words came straight out of the mouth of a debunker and not an objective researcher who saw UFOs himself.

Howard Menger himself stated that the 'moon shots' are not conclusive evidence and that the pictures came out blurred. Not all of them, the one on the left is somewhat reasonable. Like in the Adamski case, Howard Menger had many eyewitnesses. There are many similarities. Howard's wife Conny, ex-wife(!) Rose claimed that they witnessed some of the strange events. Howard's father went on the Long John Nebel show, going on record. What does such testimony say to you? Personally I find it highly improbable that all the people involved are frauds or mistaken.


Howard Menger film, notice the lights. . .

A couple of days before I listened to Greg Bishop's interview with you I came across Ed Komarek's blog-piece on you, that was actually the point of origin. Lots of interesting information. You claim to have close up photos of occupants in crafts. That's somewhat reminiscent of contactee material wouldn't you say? You also seem to have a gift for being in the right place and the right time for confessions by other parties. Perhaps you can see why that would arouse suspicions on my part and how some of my remarks originated, but I want to stop right here.
I'm not interested in a cyberfight and I think we can respectfully agree to disagree. I still have my doubts if matters weren't taken out of context but I'm going to give that a rest. I have plenty of material to defend my theory that some of the early contactee accounts are in fact genuine. Your testimony, although damaging to Adamski, doesn't diminish that. It's also my theory that the early contactees weren't about disclosure but rather about gradual awareness. Take that into the equation and other intelligences might even find discrediting information desireable. In that context it might be even possible that Adamski told you exactly what you needed to hear. I hope you forgive me when I take some pleasure from that notion.

Stanford & Adamski

Yesterday I was listening to an interview with Ray Stanford, a researcher who met a lot of the 'early contactees', on Greg Bishop's show Radio Misterioso. In the interview Stanford mentions he visited Adamski in the mid-1950s and that the latter confessed the whole thing was a hoax. Ray was there with his twin brother Rex one morning and the two were having drinks with Adamski, and after a couple of those beverages Adamski remarked that 'if it wasn't for that Roosevelt, I wouldn't have gone into this saucer crap.'
This incident was known to me and it certainly looks like something a person would say after being a little intoxicated. Adamski also remarked that he was 'the biggest bootlegger in Southern California'. The Stanford brothers took this as a admission of guilt and this part I've come across in books from other authors. Sofar no biggie.

What was new to me is that Ray Stanford claimed Adamski took him and his brother into his workshop where he showed how he faked photographs using models, black cloths and radium! Of course this is shocking testimony and damaging to Adamski's reputation. I'm sure this anecdote would be the final nail in the coffin for most skeptics. I still have my doubts however.
I could take the 'Korffian skeptical approach' and claim Stanfords memories are impaired after 50 years orso just like with the Roswell witnesses. Or I could claim the testimony is not valid because all persons were drunk. It is remarkably easy to be a skeptic. However, I'm going to do something else. I'll try to be objective.

Ray Stanford was (and is) a UFO researcher, but he was also an "experiencer". In the interview with Greg Bishop, Ray tells about telepathic experiments where he and other people summoned UFOs over the Gulf. Ray also spoke about his 'psychic abilities' and that he made accurate readings and even exposed persons committing foul acts. I guess this shows there are 2 aspects of Ray Stanford, the skeptical scientificly based researcher but also the believer who had his own experiences. Safe to say Ray Stanford is both a skeptic and a believer.
What I find remarkable is that Stanford did a lot of research on the early contactees but quite often reaches a negative conclusion on them despite the fact that Ray saw UFOs himself and knows the phenomenon is real. This morning I saw a remark on a forum where Ray had commented on Howard Menger saying 'that he hoaxed everything but in essence was a good guy', or something of that nature. I wasn't surprised one bit. There's also the episode with Dan Fry where again there are a lot of anecdotes pointing to fraud by the 'contactee'. When a person reaches so many negative conclusions about others in the UFO field but maintains there own experiences are genuine, I have to wonder if that person isn't suffering from 'Billy Meier syndrome.' (Billy Meier consistently labels other people as liars, cheaters and frauds.)

Ray Stanford does hold one anecdote in high esteem. In the Truman Betherum case there's a story where a gold smith receives a work order from a person similar in appearance to what Betherum reported in his contactee accounts. The gold figure, a hand, turns out to be a gift for Betherum and Stanford is stunned by this 'coincedence' and therefore gives Bethrum some credit.
Here comes the kicker. Strange stories such as the one above can be abundantly found in the cases of George Adamski and Howard Menger. Even researcher colleagues of Ray such as C.A. Honey, Bill Hamilton and Timothy Good reported highly unusual experiences while investigating Adamski. Then there are the other dozens of witnesses who claimed to have seen the same crafts Adamski photographed or who experienced strange matters in the presence of Adamski. Madeline Rodeffer claims till this day that the footage Adamski took in 1965 of a 'scoutcraft' is genuine and that she witnessed the whole event. Other credible witnesses such as Major Hans C. Petersen, Basil van den Berg, Fred Steckling, Glenn Steckling, Laura Mundo, Tony Belmonte and many more, claimed to have seen the exact same craft or had similar experiences. If Adamski was such a fraud, as Ray Stanford claims, then why did so many people make supporting testimonies?

Ray Stanford, as a researcher, seems to have missed a lot of supporting anecdotes. In the 'desert encounter' where 6 people signed an affadavit claiming to have witnessed/seeing a large cigar shaped craft, a smaller craft exiting and landing, and Adamski talking to the ufonaut in the distance, Stanford (again) takes a negative approach. He focuses on George Hunt Williamson's retraction (of sorts), but also happens to mention that G.H.W. got in his bed one night! Williamson signed the affadavit but later on in time remarked that maybe they saw a dirigible and toned down the story, this was after he and Adamski had a falling out. However other witnesses such as Lucy McGinnis made no such retraction and stood by the original story decades after the alleged encounter.
I think that at this point I can safely assume that Ray Stanford, by ignoring the positive testimony, has a preference for a negative outcome regarding 'contactees'.

What really happend when Ray and his brother Rex visited Adamski that morning? I don't doubt they visited Adamski. Two teenage boys, just out of high school, having a drink with Adamski. Tongues getting loose, judgement perhaps a bit impaired. I can't say for sure what really happend or what words were really spoken. But I have to wonder if Ray didn't take matters way out of proportion. 'Blaming Roosevelt for getting into that saucer crap' is something a person could say after a few drinks. It's not an admission of guilt, it can also be just talk while under the influence. I also wonder what really was said and shown in that workshop and if similar antics are in play here. I'm leaning towards the opinion that Ray Stanford could have taken things way out of context. To my knowledge there also aren't other similar stories to that of the Stanford brothers where Adamski exposes himself so bluntly.
I do want to make myself clear on this matter. I'm not claiming everything is true in the Adamski case but there are factors which possibly point to something genuine going on there. Dozens of positive eyewitness testimony shouldn't be ignored because there's one negative.

Walters Connection?

When I was watching the video in my previous post I noticed another (short) clip on YouTube. It's made off three seperate movie clips bundled together. What caught my attention is the footage taken in Mexico, january 2008, at night. It's shows two unknowns but the shape reminds me of something Ed Walters captured on polaroid during the Gulf Breeze sightings..

I admit that it's not easily recognisable, but if you pay close attention there is some resemblance to it. Walters was often branded a fraud and there are a number of claims out there directed to that cause. If my memory serves me right there was an alleged accomplice who came clean, a model found in Walters house after he moved and it was shown that polaroid cameras can easily produce double exposures. There was a lot of effort put in debunking Walters and maybe some of that was just, but it's not that simple to dismiss the entire case or the Gulf Breeze sightings.

'Although Ed Walters was the hub of the Gulf Breeze sightings, he was not alone by any means. It is estimated that over 200 other citizens came forward with sightings and / or photographs during a three year period.' I took that quote from 'ufocasebook.com'. Safe to say Walters wasn't the only one reporting strange lights in the sky and the link above shows pictures by other people. I also remember seeing impressive video footage taken by Ed Walters on a beach where a UFO just darts away.

And it seems like Walters wasn't the only one who took a photograph of that type of craft. I've even seen better (coloured) photographs of the same craft Walters captured on polaroid, but as of yet I've been unable to locate them on the internet.

UFO Releases Spheres

Amazing footage from Mexico.

Reggatta de Blanc

Yesterday I was shopping and bought a double cd of The Police. This song brought back memories for me, at the age of 12 listening to Regatta de Blanc in my room.

John Keel Passes

Author, journalist and investigator John Keel passed away on July 3. Keel published a number of books on the paranormal and is probably remembered the most for his 'Mothman' investigation. The movie The Mothman Prophecies (2002) was based on John Keel's research.
I have that movie and on that dvd is a documentary where people are interviewed who witnessed strange events at the time. One word: bizarre. John Keel certainly was one of the first minds to come across the high strangeness of the paranormal, and bravely pointed that out in his books.

Debunking Korff

Couple of days ago I watched this vid again where Kal Korff claims he's not a debunker or a skeptic, instead he claims to be a researcher. I beg to differ. Simply stating something doesn't make it so. In Korff's case it's not unusual to come to the conclusion that he is in fact a debunker. Why? You simply look at the results of his actions. Korff claims to be a researcher but to my knowledge every conclusion he makes, given a UFO case, is one of denial and that makes him a debunker, and not an objective researcher.
For the life of me I can't recall Kal Korff speaking in a positive manner about a UFO case. I might be mistaken but I simply haven't seen a positive remark or conclusion, period. According to Korff, Kenneth Arnold saw meteorites. The Phoenix lights were flares deployed by the Air Force. Nothing going on at Area 51. Nothing going on with Roswell. In other paranormal areas such as Bigfoot and conspiracy theories such as the assassination of JFK, Korff also claims nothing out of the ordinary transpired. Those kind of conclusions and the way he approaches these subjects put him in the category of a debunker, in my opinion

Korff is quite fond off using the dictionary when it comes to being called a debunker. Strangely enough he doesn't like to be called one and uses the dictionary in his defense. I find it strange that Korff doesn't come out of the closet on this, anyway, here's the definition of a debunker straight out of the dictionary;
de⋅bunk
–verb (used with object)
to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.

While debunking means you take the bunk out of a claim, it doesn't automatically imply the person doing the debunking is right. And this is where Korff beats around the bush. A person can also debunk out of his or her convictions. That's where the ufological interpretation of a debunker stems from, a person who debunks UFOs no matter what information is layed in front of them. Looking at Korff's actions and conclusions he seems to fit right in the ufological interpretation.
Setting the standard where it suits you also exposes a debunker, or in other words a biased 'researcher'. Korff has done this many times. In the Phoenix Lights he ignored many testimonies where people claimed they saw a huge craft. Roswell testimonies are denied as impaired memories yet in the Bigfoot case eyewitness testimonies of people who claimed to have worn a gorilla-suit some 30 - 40 years ago (with no physical evidence) are endorsed.
A debunker uses that which helps their point, and disregards elements that doesn't support his or her preconcieved notions. You only have to look at the methodology, and in my opinion that clearly points to Kal Korff being a debunker.

MJ-09

Thought a while about making a post on Michael Jackson. Let me first say I'm more one of those types that 'don't speak bad about the dead'. Still, I must admit that considering Jacksons life that's a hard thing to do. His music was an inspiritation to many people including myself, although I've never thought of myself as a fan of his entire work. His troubled personal life often made me wonder if the guy should have gotten a good shrink and some close good friends who told him like it was.
All the surgery convinced me that the name Wacko Jacko was right on the mark, and I find it inconceivable that he managed to be in tremendous debt at the moment of his passing. Still, the guy had more musical talent in his fingertip than most of us have in our entire body. That makes him 'Bad', just like in the song.

Vapor Cone

F-22 goes supersonic and leaves something called a vapor cone, shock collar or shock egg. Does make a pretty picture.

Dude, Where's My Car? II

A guy ran a red light in order to quickly get across a bridge. Bridge opened, plan failed.

The Madoff Benefactors

The last 6 months we saw many people on television who lost a lot of money because of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme but what you hardly see are the persons that benefited from it. Yes, there are folks who got out in time and made a lot of money, but do you see those folks on television? Not really, right? Here's an article from MSNBC which details one person who in fact profited heavily from the scheme.
Allegedly Jeffry Picower withdrew $5.1 billion from Madoff's accounts.

Between December 1995 and December 2008, Picower and his family withdrew from their various Madoff accounts $5.1 billion more than they invested with the self-confessed swindler, according to a lawsuit filed by the trustee who is trying to recover money for those Madoff defrauded.

What people tend to forget is that besides people who lost money because of Madoff, there are some people who made a lot of money because of Madoff. Yet, not surprisingly, those people don't come forward. You can wonder just how much of the $50 billion that investers lost wound up in the pockets of people like Picower, and if they would be willing to return their investment. They are pretty quiet right now. . .