The Naïve UFO Witness

You never turned around to see the frowns…On the jugglers and the clowns …When they all did tricks for you. --Dylan

I have witnessed the disgust directed at certain types of witnesses and even at people within the UFO community called “dumb” or “naïve” by others in ufology.

What does it mean to have a lower IQ if you’ve witnessed UFO phenomena?

Does it mean you couldn’t recognize a UFO? Or something that shouldn’t be a UFO? Does it mean you couldn’t possibly be capable of calling a spade a spade? Although an individual might not be the brightest, does that mean he or she isn’t capable of telling the truth?

If you look at the history of UFOs and the UFO witnesses most often exploited by media or government disinfo agents as laughingstocks and jokes --hillbillies, farmers, and farmers’ wives-- those witnesses were right. What this group of marginalized witnesses reported about what the craft or strange lights did actually lined up with what the professionals, scientists, and even pilots reported.

There is very strong evidence something is visiting our planet. It does not present Itself with a straightforward nuts and bolts image all the time.

As we progress, some of the ideas laughed at in the 50s have now been accepted. You couldn’t go to the average paleontologist in the 50s and say some dinosaurs evolved from birds. As for the controversial yet popular physics concept Dark Energy, I don’t remember hearing Dark Energy or Dark Matter mentioned, and I had my Criterion Reflector Telescope and years of subscriptions to Astronomy Magazine, in which I was gobbling up every article. I even remember when Marjorie Fish wrote articles about the Barney and Betty Hill star map. But at that time, cosmologists believed missing matter was just neutrinos and that once neutrinos were measured, cosmologists would be able to account for most the matter required for the formation of the galaxies predicted by that era’s physics. But I don’t ever remember any serious talk by mainstream scientists about an energy that repels gravity. I remember hearing that kind of thing was impossible.

What I’m saying is, some of the people made fun of in the media or ridiculed by professional debunkers and even members of the ufology community, are actually a great resource and should be treated as such. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know you’ve witnessed a UFO craft.

Let’s talk about another group where this class feeling or intellectual elitism is directed: the naïve among us.

Members of this group tend to be involved either in fundamentalist spiritual thinking or they have bought into the idea that critical thinking on any subject is somehow negative, or even that it demonstrates a lack of faith or betrayal of beliefs, and therefore shouldn’t be done.

So why would someone adopt that worldview? I worked with teenagers who bought into extreme religious sects or cults, and for them, it always came down to a feeling of safety and a need to believe in something they felt was concrete [at least to them] and perhaps most importantly, something greater than themselves.

We find a lot of that kind of need in the UFO community. Other groups tend to deal with these naïve folks as a nuisance, rather than as part of a normal human response. When threatened with a possible extreme or deadly unknown like UFOs, or claimed ET contact, some of us will typically seek an explanation that is the most comfortable or the least threatening to our lives.

I know I’ve been angry when someone postulates absolute certainty on UFO/ET motives. Most of us who read extensively in this subject believe there is no evidence for one absolute answer to UFO/ET motives. Yet there are witnesses and researchers advancing the single-motive theory who have worked hard for a minimum of public respect on this subject, only to have this theory reduced to classification as “lunatic fringe”. And I think witnesses and researchers summarily condemned to the fringe are right to be frustrated.

But isn’t it true that many of our own UFO community’s leaders constantly reinforce this, their own version of a kind of absolutism, their own Ultimate Truth? From what I’ve seen, top UFO researchers do not protest about the issue of rejecting any witness out of hand loud enough at the conferences.


Rejecting any theory --or any witness-- out of hand may mean missing important evidence.

I think it’s important to ask how we’re going to handle this message at our conferences.

Like many of you, I get extremely angry when I hear this exclusively spiritual talk about UFOs and the intelligences or forces behind the phenomena. But isn’t it true that some of our nuts and bolts people are just as naïve --call it blindly certain-- about what they believe?

And doesn’t their inaction, based on their own brand of blind certainty, mean missing important ET displays?

How many of our good researchers reject witnesses because they report about communicating with “spiritual” ETs, even when there is supporting evidence something is really happening?

How many of our own good nuts and bolts school UFO researchers went to the Gilliland Ranch to find out what was really happening? At least Above Top Secret went to the Ranch to debunk the phenomena, Gilliland’s claims, and thousands of photos and videos. Yes, ATS failed to debunk, but at least they went there to find out, first-hand.

Of course it may be our most respected ufologists were scared off by the claimed spiritual message and the absolute certainty with which Gilliland espouses that message.

We do not know for certain if ETs do some of this spiritual conditioning intentionally.
If ETs had to appear and communicate with us, a violent species, without completely controlling us, appearing as a kind of loving, spiritual being seems very practical and safe to me.

So how do we handle this? The best way I can think of is to educate ourselves with an honest guide on the subject.

There is no doubt in my mind that we need to address this dogmatic prejudice in our midst that ETs must be inherently of a spiritual, beneficent nature. But the way we have been doing it --just dismissing it and ridiculing the witnesses and researchers who believe it-- doesn’t work.

Ideas, anyone? I’m open to hearing from UFOMM readers how we could best handle this issue in our ufology community.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

Alien Animal Control

Zoolologist on wolf and man interaction:
"It may be that the early human tribes learned how to sing from the Wolf"

Humans have always tried to control other animals, whether it was eliminating them as competitors or training them to be helpers and servants. In the world of human-animal interaction, the wolf and its descendents have taken top place among helper animals.

Since there have been three researched cases of Sasquatch-like creatures and other animals --including wolves-- showing up along with UFOs at ranches, we can now say that alien animal control phenomenon is part of UFO activity.

Many interested in UFOs consider alien animal control an indication of the metaphysical nature of UFO phenomenon.

But is assuming metaphysics at the center of UFO phenom a wise conclusion? I’m interested in what other explanations could be made.

So, could advanced aliens hiding on a planet like ours have the ability to control local animals, and use them as scouts, spies or even helpers? Could these aliens use the animals as guards to keep watch over their hiding places? Or even as a form of communication with the locals?

Wouldn’t visiting aliens find it convenient to simply use local mythology about animals as a disinformation strategy? And wouldn’t relying on local animal myths to condition the human population’s response to anomalous incidents of all kinds help ensure that the wrong people (those without power) will focus on investigating these interactions with just the local species on this planet --interactions seemingly independent of alien control-- and which are bound to happen anyway?

The Colorado UFO Ranch written about in Timothy Good’s Alien Liason [1992, Random House] may be one of the first documented cases indicating animal control by Extraterrestrial Entities.

The Colorado UFO Ranch case was investigated by three scientists --Dr. Leo Spinkle. Dr. John Deer and wife, and Dr. Peter Van Aresdale.

The location was a ranch experiencing very much what we have now at Trout Lake (Gilliland Ranch), but with an important difference: the interaction wasn’t so friendly.

A group of professionals pooled their resources together to buy a ranch near the Rocky Mountains. So, who were these people? New Age woo-woos?

No. The new ranch owners of what is now popularly known as the Colorado UFO Ranch were a law enforcement officer, a former military officer with a security background and manager of a large corporation, his wife, and teenage children. What they did was commonplace when the West opened up, and a great contemporary example of the true American spirit --a group of people pooling resources to buy a working ranch together and working it. It was to be a working ranch, not dude ranch. Nothing sinister, nothing silly.

But what happened at what’s been called UFO Ranch would rock these solid citizens to the very core, and have much the same effect on investigators who looked into the incidents of high strangeness witnessed there.

Mutilations of their cattle, UFOs, ET humanoids, Bigfoot type creatures, messages broadcast over their stereo systems (not the radio), electric power failures, and intrusions around the house. This is the intriguing to terrifying list of what the whole family and a number of guests experienced.

Another description that we hear a great deal in this interaction is the entities controlling human reaction. As reported in Alien Liaison, Tim Good gets the details from the investigators:
Jim, the former military officer, witnesses a UFO ship around the cattle later when he learns of the large reward because of the cattle mutilation he decides one night to go looking for them (he never thought of ETs) he would go out with his high caliber shotgun. Jim then attempts to go retrieve it when…“it was like paralysis…Like I was drugged” He couldn’t move to go get his rifle. Barbara, the corporate manager’s wife, was with Jim at the time and had her own insane experience…“Suddenly…increased heart rate…I remembered things I’d had completely forgotten…by that time there was a sense of panic… I was screaming…by the time Jim came to… from where ever he was …he couldn’t talk…after that John showed up…but I couldn’t talk… every time I started and tried…I’d start to stutter.

So is it possible ETS use some type of mind control over animals? The question also may be rightly asked, how much control do they have? Could they reach deep into the brain…put the conscious animal and its pain centers to sleep, then take over? Just how deep can they go?

Here’s a revealing comment by one of the human animals on the Colorado UFO Ranch the ETs seem to have been practicing mind control on:
“… and [I had] a flood of memories… I remembered things I had completely forgotten.”

Rancher Jim has some interactions with the entities from the crafts. The ETs also admit to Jim, on one occasion, the “Bigfoot creature” obeys their commands…

More from Alien Liason:
They (UFO entities) mentioned the box and that it was right of me to back away from it. They nodded and about 30 feet away from it “Bigfoot” as I called him got up and walked toward the box, the box tone changed and he dropped. They said as you can see they are quite lethal…

This “Bigfoot” creature was sighted all over the ranch before, and even though shot by one of the rancher-witnesses, the creature did not seem to bleed.

Please don’t argue with me about how could ETs do this, because a significantly advanced race could.

DVD Strange Havest Dr Spinkel:



On the Skinwalker Ranch, it was wolves acting strangely, as though controlled. Could the Skinwalker Ranch wolves have been ETs way of driving off the owners? Or even controlling how the owners would deal with what was happening? The Gormans, (a cover name to protect the ranch family’s identity) were a regular American ranching family who were not in it to get away from corporate American life, as the UFO Ranch group were, but a family who had always been ranchers. And the Gormans initially would not report some of these stories…even though they were lifelong experts on animal behavior. Why? No one would have believed them.

And now, for another extraordinary account of animals apparently under control by UFOs, we take a look at the a wide range of extreme phenomenon recorded by investigators in Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah, by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp [2005, Paraview Pocket Books].

Just one of the bizarre scenes the investigators witnessed was a very large wolf trotting onto the property, wagging its tail and behaving oddly: it is acting very friendly and comfortable around humans. The wolf wags it way over to the barn and quickly grabs a calf by the head. The wolf’s jaws enclose the entire head of the calf and the poor animal starts yelling.

Gorman (the rancher-owner) is caught completely off guard, then puts a few shots into the wolf, that finally lets go of the calf and goes away. He does find a piece of flesh where one of bullets had hit the wolf, but no blood.

There are many ways humans protect animals, so I’m sure ETs have thought up a few ways to protect their messengers and animals of burden.

Now we have the strangest animals of all reported at UFO ranch: a Bigfoot with “Mothman” wings that may be able to fly. Skeptics would claim only idiots would go to that ranch but over the ten year-plus history of these happenings, many people of prominence have visited Gilliland Ranch.

What does it say about the evolution of the thinking among some prominent people in the military and top government contractors when they take time to visit a location reporting such bizarre happenings, including UFOs and cryptids?

How far could an advanced ET civilization control animals? Could they control a Bigfoot effectively enough to put wings on it and make it fly?

And then, there’s the other side of all these phenom: you can control the people who show up by what you present.

Alien disinformation doesn’t work so well anymore. At these ranches people, who were not part of the Ufology choir showed up.

I have to say I have never read anything on the experiences at these ranches that couldn’t be explained by technology. I fervently believe in the paranormal, but I don’t think the paranormal or the metaphysical is always the answer when something outside our understanding is witnessed.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matter
Non-Commercial Blog

UFO Leaks Here…UFO Leaks There…But No water

“you who’ve done nothing... but build to destroy... you played with my world like your little toy…Bob Dylan

You’re a CIA counter-spy. Your mission: disinformation that must be sold to your Russian counterpart.

No one outside a chosen few know what you really do. Not your wife, not even your commander when you were in the service. No one.

You’ve been trained well, so well you easily pass a polygraph. As for sincerity, you could win an Academy Award. It’s all about Believability. That’s why you were picked, after all.

By the end of the day, the Russian buys it. In fact, the Russian buys everything you had to say and all the documents you produced. You know the Russians will be chasing their tails for months, burning through key resources on a well-developed wild goose chase. Wearing out the opposition by making them spend too much, that’s just your secondary objective. Your prime objective is accomplished, too: keep your opponent from learning The Greater Truth, the real state of affairs.

I believe UFO researchers are being had. The UFO researchers I’m talking about here are some of the best and brightest, the most dedicated. They’re spreading countless hours with whistleblowers of all kinds. Start with Linda Moulton Howe: Linda has a new insider leak every few months. Then there’s the Camelot group, Exopolitics, with their whistleblower, and don’t forget the Disclosure Project, with their whistleblowers and many different leaks. Whitley Strieber and nearly every other UFO researcher has a favorite whistle blower. Not all of the whistleblowers are saying the same thing.

Then there’s this stuff:
http://www.remoteviewer.nu/?p=3917

The Theories abound;http://hubpages.com/hub/UFOsandAliens
on and on, ad infinitum.

Mister X, an anonymous whistle blower claiming to be involved in the defense industry was interviewed decades ago, and his statements were certainly shocking:
“He claimed that, back in the 1980s, he was employed by a California defense contractor as an archivist. Working long hours in a locked vault, he opened large mail bags full of photos, videotapes, alien artifacts, and volumes of top secret eyes-only documents that told the story behind Roswell, alien visitation and the government's careful handling of what was documented evidence of reverse engineering of alien craft.”
http://www.projectcamelot.org/mr_x.html

Mr. X may have indeed been telling the truth. The real tragedy is, we will never know. I am not going to debate with you on who’s telling the truth. Instead, I have to ask you: who is lying?

How many researchers who interview the whistle blowers claim these informants are sincere? In the end, what we can definitely say we have are a bunch of sincere researchers reporting on sincere whistleblowers who claim they are privy to a hundred different projects within our government. One whistle blower points this way, another that way. They may have verifiable backgrounds that back their stories…so?

Interesting how, on any given day, these leaks seem to confirm --or affirm-- most of the theories championed by major factions in the UFO community. Got a particular take on what UFOs mean to humankind’s religious development? There already is, or soon will be, a leak to affirm that stance. It’s all very convenient, and for me, it represents a kind of patronizing assurance.

Other whistleblowers divide their loyalties, they cherry pick what’s already out there among the UFO factions and communities, claiming all the other theories are wrong.

Some may point at their faction’s whistle blower and say they were persecuted or that their phones were tapped. Doesn’t this prove the government is trying to suppress it, they insist?

No, not at all. The government is just as likely to persecute an innocent person just to send the media and investigators on dead-end investigations. Of course there are good leaks, but when you have a whistleblower claiming to be a privy to the prime insider information, including sitting with presidents and so on, you have to say WHOA! STOP! I’ve got to say I need something besides just this one individual’s very personal claim.

So I think we don’t really take into consideration just how long the intelligence community has had to develop their counter measures on this issue. Yes, there were leaks in the beginning, particularly with pilots, that checked out as 100% verifiable. But apparently even Keyhoe was never able to know about the Roswell secret.

I still don’t know who is really in control of the world. I’m sure the people over there at Rense know… because hey, don’t anarchists know everything?

Frank Feschino, Jr., Stanton Friedman protégée, is writing some great books, like Shoot Them Down: The Flying Saucer Air Wars Of 1952. Feschino is doing a fine job examining old documents. We also have Tim Good and Nick Redfern, all researching old government documents. Even the UFO TV shows are upgrading their investigations a bit.

I love it all, but how far can whistleblowing go toward actual, verifiable proof?

Even a very dumb government intelligence organization has had enough time to bury any smoking guns by now.

The time, effort, and confusion that comes out of these leaks, I just have to wonder if it’s worth it.

And why all this really makes me upset is the rarity of in-depth coverage of the day to day UFO experiences happening to witnesses right now.

How many of these interesting reports just show up as blurbs in the local newspaper?

MUFON does not have enough investigators. New York City has, I think, just two. I’m proud to announce that one investigator just passed the test, and I know about her because she attended my NY UFO Meeting Group. MUFON presented, we met at the training, and she is now a MUFON investigator.

This trend to find the secret behind the secret takes over every UFO conference. Some of you are fans of that approach, you love it. You can find these Secret Behind The Secret factionalists debating which Ultimate Theory Of UFOs is most valid. Are they all true?

Buyer beware: isn’t there at least a solid chance that the top people in government intelligence are smarter than UFO researchers?

Q&A Panal At 27th Annual Society For Scientific Exploration
Conference Clips:



One of the greatest spies who ever lived was a man playing a woman. I wonder how many intelligent people never knew?

Any researcher who thinks they can’t be fooled lacks humility. Books on who is really in control abound. Take your pick: most of them have some fairly convincing documentation that seems to back up their claim.

Outside in the real world, there are thousand of UFO true stories to be told right now. There are places where primary encounters are being experienced on an ongoing basis. How many man/woman hours are being spent, chasing down these leads to... nowhere?

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog