Saturday, 19 May 2012
Will Smith, his son, The President and E.T.
The recent news about Will Smith and his son Jaden asking President Obama about the existence of E.T. - and the President's unsurprisingly neutral response - is certainly generating a lot of media interest. But then again this can't hurt in terms of boosting media attention to the upcoming Men In Black 3 movie.
Go to Open Minds (which only appears to be intermittently working for me at the moment so I can't include the direct link) and the BBC radio/vid feed here.
The Graham Norton Show on BBC One also had Will Smith as a guest last night where he talked about the same event. Access via BBC iPlayer.
Mr Smith is claiming he has privileged information from President Obama on the matter of extra terrestrials - but then he is a tease...
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Open Minds site down?
Have just noticed that the Open Minds site - www.openminds.tv - appears to be down.
NARCAP was out of commission not so long ago - now this one. Is it me or are a number of UFO/paranormal sites just having a bad year?
Update (sort of)
As of today (19 May 2012) I was going to state that the Open Minds site is up and running again - having read their Will Smith article at least once - but access still seems to be intermittent (for me at least) at the moment.
NARCAP was out of commission not so long ago - now this one. Is it me or are a number of UFO/paranormal sites just having a bad year?
Update (sort of)
As of today (19 May 2012) I was going to state that the Open Minds site is up and running again - having read their Will Smith article at least once - but access still seems to be intermittent (for me at least) at the moment.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Anonymous to leak secret UFO data?
An apology
Firstly I want to apologise to all visitors to my humble blog out there who may have noticed an absence of posts in the last few weeks.
There is no reason for this other than that I have been lurching from one poorly-paid (and very time-consuming) short-term Government contract to another. I have some free time coming from the end of this month, when I plan to return to posting more regularly.
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Anonymous reveals truth about UFOs : Will they? Won't they?
I've noticed the interesting article originally posted by IT World earlier today but flagged in the news section of Open Minds - the latter being one of my preferred sites to follow.
The article's worth a read if only to smile at the possible irony that hacktivist group Anonymous may itself have been the subject of - as yet unconfirmed - 'trolling' concerning rumours that the group is supposedly due to release secret Government UFO/ET files.
My money's on no one in the group having anything of note at all on the subject. I would however, be amongst the first to say I was wrong if - by some stretch - there was an element of truth to the rumours. I'm not holding my breath though, given that this could just be trolling or a ruse by the group to further raise their own profile - in which case it has worked to some extent!
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
NARCAP is live again
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Life confirmed on Mars?
I am back working for a Government Department for a couple of weeks (the old security clearance still comes in handy) and - no - it's still not MOD or Home Office.
Consequently, my ability to blog over the next fortnight will be limited.
This is just a quick post on an article that has been doing the rounds in the last few days. Not directly concerned with the UFO phenomenon but possible confirmation within the mainstream scientific community (based on NASA data) that extraterrestrial life may not only exist but may have been discovered in our solar system as far back as 1976.
Open Minds which I regularly follow - and which I link to from this Blog - has posted the following article on this http://www.openminds.tv/scientists-believe-nasa-data-confirms-life-on-mars-922/.
However, it was not that long ago that there was an infamous 'false start' in terms of allegedly ground-breaking science i.e. the (now disproved) discovery of a 'faster-than-light neutrino'.
I guess it will be a case of watch this space (pardon the pun)...
Consequently, my ability to blog over the next fortnight will be limited.
This is just a quick post on an article that has been doing the rounds in the last few days. Not directly concerned with the UFO phenomenon but possible confirmation within the mainstream scientific community (based on NASA data) that extraterrestrial life may not only exist but may have been discovered in our solar system as far back as 1976.
Open Minds which I regularly follow - and which I link to from this Blog - has posted the following article on this http://www.openminds.tv/scientists-believe-nasa-data-confirms-life-on-mars-922/.
However, it was not that long ago that there was an infamous 'false start' in terms of allegedly ground-breaking science i.e. the (now disproved) discovery of a 'faster-than-light neutrino'.
I guess it will be a case of watch this space (pardon the pun)...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Bogey or Friendly?
On Easter Monday I was watching the UK Freeview channel Quest which was taking a predictably light-hearted approach to the UFO phenomenon in one of their 'weirdest UFO sightings' programmes. The programme makers used the British comedy actor Mark Williams to narrate it in a mildly sarcastic tone for example. Well - no surprises there. This sort of material is typical of the UK media's treatment of the subject, which usually means little or no departure from conventional or mainstream thought, even on an alleged 'independent' channel which, after all, relies on its subscribers and advertisers to operate. Also guilty is the BBC with their 2010 programme "I believe in UFOs" presented by Danny Dyer. Why choose the star of films such as The Football Factory to present such a programme (answers on a post-card please)?
There is no 'cover-up'!
Interestingly, the Quest programme makers did give Nick Pope (former MOD spokesperson on UFOs) perhaps 10-15 seconds of airtime - if that - to offer his denial of any 'cover-up' of a UFO conspiracy especially in the context of some lobbying of Westminster by the Scottish town of Bonnybridge's Councillor Billy Buchanan concerning events in the Falkirk Triangle (see Bonnybridge and other online articles for the 'Falkirk Triangle' for background). For what it's worth, I agree with Nick Pope that it is unlikely, given my own knowledge of how Government operates, that there is any 'cover-up'. Our Government simply wouldn't be very good at it if nothing else - hence the expression "Cock-up before Conspiracy" as coined by Sir Bernard Ingham (apologies to those overseas in advance if this expression is a bit lost in translation!).
Black Projects
However, whilst I'm aware that this plays firmly into the hands of many conspiracy theorists, there is some merit in the theory concerning military, industrial or technological 'black projects' (which I will explore in another post) and which may have resulted in testing of advanced craft in our airspace - without any mainstream knowledge of our Government or even that of our allies in the U.S.
Blue on Blue
Such a theory could only be proven by hard evidence of something akin to a 'blue on blue' incident between a conventional military vehicle and a black project vehicle. To those unfamiliar with the term 'blue on blue', I first encountered its use by colleagues of mine working for the Police and Home Office, to refer to two separate agency operations inadvertently targeting the same criminal activity. Consequently, the Home Office regularly has to cross-check their field enforcement activity in advance with the Police and other enforcers to avoid this very scenario. This term and the scenarios it can be attributed to have even more serious connotations when applied to military activity, as it is normally used in the context of 'friendly fire' incidents.
So - imagine a patrolling military plane or helicopter (could be UK, could be US) that encounters a craft in UK airspace which is also tracked on radar but which does not conform to any known civil or military aircraft design and does not respond to any requests for identification. Add the unknown craft's ability to manoeuvre in ways which are beyond that of known civil or military technology and you have the beginnings of an intriguing UFO case. The key word in this paragraph is 'known'.
The object may well be designated as a UFO but may subsequently prove to be a black project vehicle that is yet to be revealed to mainstream civil or military experts and which - therefore - remains 'unknown'. This is what happened on a number of occasions with early sightings of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit - also known as the Stealth Bomber and the F-117 Nighthawk (pics below with Spirit left and Nighthawk right).
Often these projects only become 'known' many years or decades after their inception and are so restricted in terms of security, that a larger part of the military community in the country of origin of such a project won't know it exists. BUT it is worth keeping in mind that black projects at least, do exist.
Such encounters as described above, could perhaps be regarded as a 'blue on blue' (or perhaps 'blue on black'?) but only after subsequent confirmation that a given 'bogey' was in fact a 'friendly'. With this in mind, one begins to get an idea of how even military reports of strange craft in the sky - let alone civilian reports - could be open to interpretation.
The ET Hypothesis?
Now whilst a proportion of UFO sightings could fit the above scenario, an increasing number of experienced civilian and military aviation professionals are reporting craft that behave in a way that could be said to be hundreds of years more advanced than conventional or mainstream aircraft - and not just more advanced by decades. This is when the 'extraterrestrial hypothesis' - in its broadest sense - comes into play.
I hope to cite a couple of classic cases that - in my view - fit this hypothesis in later posts.
There is no 'cover-up'!
Interestingly, the Quest programme makers did give Nick Pope (former MOD spokesperson on UFOs) perhaps 10-15 seconds of airtime - if that - to offer his denial of any 'cover-up' of a UFO conspiracy especially in the context of some lobbying of Westminster by the Scottish town of Bonnybridge's Councillor Billy Buchanan concerning events in the Falkirk Triangle (see Bonnybridge and other online articles for the 'Falkirk Triangle' for background). For what it's worth, I agree with Nick Pope that it is unlikely, given my own knowledge of how Government operates, that there is any 'cover-up'. Our Government simply wouldn't be very good at it if nothing else - hence the expression "Cock-up before Conspiracy" as coined by Sir Bernard Ingham (apologies to those overseas in advance if this expression is a bit lost in translation!).
Black Projects
However, whilst I'm aware that this plays firmly into the hands of many conspiracy theorists, there is some merit in the theory concerning military, industrial or technological 'black projects' (which I will explore in another post) and which may have resulted in testing of advanced craft in our airspace - without any mainstream knowledge of our Government or even that of our allies in the U.S.
Blue on Blue
Such a theory could only be proven by hard evidence of something akin to a 'blue on blue' incident between a conventional military vehicle and a black project vehicle. To those unfamiliar with the term 'blue on blue', I first encountered its use by colleagues of mine working for the Police and Home Office, to refer to two separate agency operations inadvertently targeting the same criminal activity. Consequently, the Home Office regularly has to cross-check their field enforcement activity in advance with the Police and other enforcers to avoid this very scenario. This term and the scenarios it can be attributed to have even more serious connotations when applied to military activity, as it is normally used in the context of 'friendly fire' incidents.
So - imagine a patrolling military plane or helicopter (could be UK, could be US) that encounters a craft in UK airspace which is also tracked on radar but which does not conform to any known civil or military aircraft design and does not respond to any requests for identification. Add the unknown craft's ability to manoeuvre in ways which are beyond that of known civil or military technology and you have the beginnings of an intriguing UFO case. The key word in this paragraph is 'known'.
The object may well be designated as a UFO but may subsequently prove to be a black project vehicle that is yet to be revealed to mainstream civil or military experts and which - therefore - remains 'unknown'. This is what happened on a number of occasions with early sightings of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit - also known as the Stealth Bomber and the F-117 Nighthawk (pics below with Spirit left and Nighthawk right).
Often these projects only become 'known' many years or decades after their inception and are so restricted in terms of security, that a larger part of the military community in the country of origin of such a project won't know it exists. BUT it is worth keeping in mind that black projects at least, do exist.
Such encounters as described above, could perhaps be regarded as a 'blue on blue' (or perhaps 'blue on black'?) but only after subsequent confirmation that a given 'bogey' was in fact a 'friendly'. With this in mind, one begins to get an idea of how even military reports of strange craft in the sky - let alone civilian reports - could be open to interpretation.
The ET Hypothesis?
Now whilst a proportion of UFO sightings could fit the above scenario, an increasing number of experienced civilian and military aviation professionals are reporting craft that behave in a way that could be said to be hundreds of years more advanced than conventional or mainstream aircraft - and not just more advanced by decades. This is when the 'extraterrestrial hypothesis' - in its broadest sense - comes into play.
I hope to cite a couple of classic cases that - in my view - fit this hypothesis in later posts.
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