UFOs : Fact Or Fake

I don't usually highlight a show on TV but the Sci-Fy channel has started a new series called " Fact or Faked.= and it's excellent so far. Basically the shows premise is to find reported phenomenon including UFOs and try to find a logical explanation. The first two shows highlighted two cases I had put up on YouTube as very interesting. One case they took on was investigated by MUFON and was presented at a MUFON conference. The video shows three creatures with capes walking past surveillance cameras.
This is the clip I had presented on YouTube:

The debunkers took me on by claiming they were everything from dogs walking across the yard – to dummies being pulled along. These one line debunkers dumb statements are par for the course and you have to expect it. So with all their explanations in hand I decided to look at this video in a video editing program and when I was done nothing they claimed fit the bill. As you probably notice these creatures were extremely thin and wore some type of cape. Also if you look carefully they are walking not being pulled along. Flying ETs with capes have been reported all over Mexico including one police offers personal horrifying experience. Also in many well documented abduction experiences abductees have been reporting for years these almost insect looking beings…long and very skinny. They both seem to fit and I felt this was a good case. So it felt somewhat exonerated when "FACT OR FATE" investigated this case and found some interesting results, here is the clip below:

What I don't fathom in all of this, is the viciousness these people continue to emotionally vomit on the person who reported this. These "debunkers" casually look at these videos and have no compunction to ridicule and impinge someone's integrity livelihood and intelligence, not to mention their race if they are not white. I believe the UFO witnesses deserve to be defended even though I will get attacked also.

If one ET has arrived on earth than others have and an evolving intelligent insect race on some planet does not seem impossible some of the insects on this planet are pretty smart already.

There is two things that happens when you are so closed minded you can't see, the first is a blindness to what you automatically disregard externally and a blindness internally to being wrong. What a sad, egotistical life.

Note: The second case will be highlighted on a future Post.

"Fact or Faked" on the Sci-Fy channel is a good show and I highly recommend it.

PS: John Ventre asked me to post this and I gladly agreed:

UFO CONFERENCE
Pennsylvania leads the Nation in UFO Sightings

"UFO's. . . Seeing is Believing". The Pennsylvania Mutual UFO Network will present it's 3rd Annual UFO Conference's on Saturday October 9th, 2010 from 8am-5pm at the Sheraton Hotel 400 Oxford Valley Rd Langehorne Pa 19047 and on Saturday October 16th 2010 from 10am to 6pm at the Westmoreland Community College 145 Pavillion Ln Youngwood, Pa 15697.
Pennsylvania has been the epicenter of the world's largest UFO wave since the summer of 2008. There have been over 650 UFO reports filed with MUFON from Pittsburgh to Philly over the past two years. John Ventre, the Pennsylvania State Director for MUFON stated, "We're getting clusters of sightings from every town from Pittsburgh to Philly along the southern half of the state. We have 151 reports in the Pittsburgh-Westmoreland County area and 355 in the Philly area. I get reports of UFO's coming in from Lake Erie in Ohio and across Wheeling, West Virginia into the Pittsburgh area and they are seen minutes later on the Eastern part of the state.
The Conference will present a combination of expert Paranormal, Abduction and UFO speakers.

Speakers include Richard Dolan who has written numerous books on the government coverup, Bill Birnes of UFO Hunters, Budd Hopkins on Abductions, Kathleen Marden on Betty and Barney Hill, Peter Robbins who investigated the Rendlesham Forrest UK incident, John Ventre of the Mutual UFO Network, Stan Gordon will present Kecksburg then and Leslie Kean who sued NASA will present Kecksburg now on the 45th anniversary.

"The quality of speakers at this Conference rivals the larger pricier conferences that take place around the country", said Ventre.

Professional presentations and vendor tables will highlight this conference in an academic setting. "We also have a few surprises for the audience and they are not Halloween tricks", said Ventre.
Admission price's are $20 in Pitt and $30 in Philly. Advance orders and the Conference agenda can be obtained at John Ventre's website at www.johnventre.com or www.mufonpa.com . John Ventre can be reached at 724 836 1266 or at jventre1@comcast.net.
The Mutual UFO Network was founded in 1969 after the US Air Force concluded their 17 year Project Blue Book study of UFO's and concluded that UFO's are not a threat to National Security. "They never said UFO's don't exist. There is overwhelming evidence that they do. I believe this is an aviation safety issue. The only reason there are not more collisions is because of their ability to manuever, not ours", said Ventre.

Mufon has 2700 members worldwide and over 900 certified investigators. The Pennsylvania MUFON branch has 129 members and 21 certified investigators. Anyone interested in joining MUFON can speak to John Ventre or one of the many investigators that will be at the conference from Pa, WV, NY, NJ and Ohio. "One thing I know fromconducting my investigations: if you've seen one, you believe", said Ventre.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

UFOs and their Mighty Weapons?

I loved science fiction as a boy. I read all the popular writers. One of constant themes when dealing with aliens in these short stories, novellas and novels was the ET’s superior weapons. Star Trek capitalized on this with the Phasers and Proton Torpedoes. War of the Worlds,” the movie version, trying to catch up with technology, updated the Martian ships with levitation and super weapons. Book after book described aliens as armed to the teeth with weapons beyond our imagination.

As humans we reasoned there must be bad guys up there ready to take our species out in a minute’s notice… a type of alien Hitler waiting to take what we have. No other movie exemplified this more than “Independence Day.” Somehow drawing from the Roswell legacy, a story emerges of an evil ET species ready to destroy humans without a second thought.
We have surmised that because we are so disposed to war and competition that this is probably what is going on up there on other planets. Another view is that ETs will act similar to the way humans acted when we used and enslaved indigenous peoples because we knew their primitive weapons had no chance against a well equipped military. We wanted to control them and we did. So why wouldn’t these ETs want to control us?
Dangerous ETs was a centerpiece of conversations among scientists when we started to beam signals at other star systems to let them know we were here. Some scientists were very upset about it. I am sure everyone remembers the warnings by some scientist, that beaming signals may bring our existence to the attention of some very bad ET characters. Of course, no one asked those scientists… how would the ETs get here? That question seems to be reserved for the possibility of UFOs being spacecraft.

When we go into the real world of credible reports on these possible alien spaceships the massively powerful weapons are strangely missing. The reason for these missing weapons may be obvious and I will get to that later but first I think we should first take a look at some very interesting hostile human reactions to UFO crafts.
Although there are cases where UFO crafts have been fired on without returning fire, sometimes they have been reported to fire back.

“David Santoro was a 27 year old reserve police officer in Spring County, California. Upon witnessing a 60 foot cylinder hovering above him while in his patrol car, the car reacted by coming to a full stop on it’s own. The next thing Officer Santoro recalls is being removed from the car by “two small beings”. He was returned in 15 minutes and remembers watching the object rising up in the night sky shining a beam of light around the car. David pulled out his revolver and fired four shots into the object and took off at ninety miles an hour in panic.”

The following account was witnessed by Easy Company 25 division 2nd battalion in the Iron Triangle near Charwon, Korea interestingly enough relates a hostile reprisal by a UFO when it is fired upon and possibly damaged:
About to bombard a village, some of the military are sent to the village to warn the populace. As the military was shelling the village, they seem to see an orange light in the shape of a jack-o- lantern moving about. At first they fluffed it off but then… “we would notice this thing would fly right into the middle of the cloudburst and yet not get harmed… but then it approached us. Then it turned into a blue green brilliant light…it pulsated but it wasn’t regular. I asked for and received permission from Lt. Evens, our company commander, to fire upon the object, which I did using an M1 rifle with armor piecing bullets…and I hit it. It must have been metallic since you could hear the projectile slam into it.”
But now the UFO reacts…does it feel threatened?
“But the object went wild and the light was going off and on and it briefly went completely off. It was moving erratically from side to side as though it would crash to the ground. Then a sound (they had heard no sound) of diesel locomotives revving up…then we were attacked…we were swept by some type of ray that was emitted in pulses…you could feel a burning tingling sensation all over your body, as if something was penetrating you. So the company commander hauled us into the bunkers…We were scared that we did this”
They had peep holes in the bunkers. He peered out with another soldier to see the object hover over the vicinity for a while with a light so bright it lit up the “whole area”. Then they saw it shoot off at a 45 degree angle…”it’s that quick, it was there and was gone.”

[All quotes and information from “Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” by Richard Haines Ph. D.
Easy Company Report From: official US Army records stored St. Louis Mo. also
Advance Aerial Devices Reported During Korean War, by Haines}

Below is twp video clips from UFO Hunters where fighter pilots also engaged UFO craft with deadly force. Here again we see a response by the objects that are a far cry from many of our dear science fiction writers expectations.








The reason, why they do not use, or have, these horrible weapons seems an exercise in common sense. If humankind does survive past this selfish stage we to may come to the obvious conclusion that war and the use of mighty weapons is a waste of everything dear. When we go the stars it may not be with weapons to protect ourselves. Rather, we may have evolved enough to go to the stars with the heart of a scientist and the wisdom of true respect for other species.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

UFO Pragmatism: Killing The Messenger

You used to laugh about everyone who was hanging out…Now you don’t talk so loud…Now you don’t feel so proud, after having to be scrounging your next meal…
- Dylan

[Chuck Wade Roswell Artifact Update: His material is in the hands of of a company which will prove one way or the other whether it is of earthly origins. The results, no matter what they show, will be presented on my blog UFO Media Matters.]

What’s the number one reason UFOs are a topic on TV all over the globe now?
Is it because of Stanton Friedman? “Bad Astronomy”? MUFON? Richard Dolan? Edgar Mitchell? The “UFO Hunters” show?

The number one reason UFOs are still a topic of news and TV shows is --God love ‘em-- is the UFO witnesses. The UFO witnesses have the power to move us with their courage and their vulnerability
The witnesses have always been the catalyst, the focus of interest in the UFO subject.

Recently, a pilot with decades of experience reported seeing two-mile-long UFOs, and a second commercial aircraft confirmed this astounding sighting. What happened was everyone sat up, the media saw ratings and covered it, and of course, the debunkers trotted out their standard lines and debunked it.

So if that’s what debunkers said about professional pilots, what would happen if a farmer out in his field reported these two-mile-long objects-- maybe even took a cell phone picture of them? Do you think there is a possibility that this person, especially if he received air time, would be attacked inside our UFO research community? Would it be too much of a stretch to say the person’s social and professional status might be brought up, maybe derided, even by our own community?

And there is another matter we need to look at when our ufology community starts to put witnesses in their cross-hairs; the lack of witness empathy.
I think I understand why some UFO researchers who have had their own UFO experiences seem to attack the more sensational strange cases with the same stance and language used by debunkers.

I just have to believe that the researchers’ sightings were quite mundane --maybe like a light that didn’t behave itself, or a craft sighted far away.
I just can’t believe those researchers who find it impossible to imagine certain cases could be true from diverse and strange witness encounters ... have had profound encounters themselves.
I believe unless you personally have the kind of UFO experience that literally rips the fabric of your own belief system, your empathy for more bizarre UFO experiences will, understandably, be lacking.

Unfortunately this attitude has harmed many honest UFO experiencers.

My own case, although a close encounter in nature, was not so bizarre. Stay with me on this. Yes, it was two flying saucers, but they were symbols of something I could understand --superior technology, maybe, something I could get my head around in science. I came into the UFO scene with that mindset.

But when I read a report on Peter Davenport’s NUFORC about some forest rangers seeing a elk being levitated into the craft and the craft actually becoming larger as the animal went inside, I had to come to the conclusion that they were either lying or… I had to rethink what future technology could possible do. Thank God, if you allow yourself to, you can grow.

I just spoke with an individual involved with people I respect in the UFO community but, he said something that made me wonder how much he knew about the history of UFOs and the witnesses who see them. We were talking about the Billy Meiers case.
He was saying he proved, using Photoshop, that Meiers faked a photo. I told he could not claim without the negatives. He replied.

“Billy said the negatives were stolen…how convenient”.

I thought, only a person who had limited knowledge of the history of UFOs in the modern era would assume Meiers was lying.
In my post “UFO Missing Evidence” Parts One and Two, I show how a great deal of UFO evidence has been missing, stolen outright, or the originals “never returned”.
http://ufomedia.blogspot.com/2008/07/missing-ufo-evidence-part-one.html

http://ufomedia.blogspot.com/2008/07/missing-ufo-evidence-part-two.html

Then there’s another consideration: couldn’t ETs steal evidence, too?

Just recently MUFON had a article in their monthly journal pointing out how in Police Officer Lenny Zamora’s famous UFO landing report, (which included small humanoid occupants) photos taken almost right after the event were given to Project Blue Book and were never returned. Project Bluebook’s official explanation that entered into UFO history claimed the photos were foggy from radiation and therefore, no good. But if this is true, those photos are important evidence.

At Gilliland Ranch, debunkers have an evidence problem: too much evidence in the hands of too many witnesses --thousands.

But it does get sticky: part of this locale’s UFO phenomena seems to include telepathic connection. Even this extraordinary phenom is not so rare in the history of ufology and witness experience. Another frequent phenom is the transformation of an individual witness into a kind of guru --like James Gilliland-- who is imparting messages claiming ETs are spiritually advanced.

Gilliland was at first dismissed by the Pragmatic Certainty crowd as being a hoaxer or a New Age nut. But Gilliland’s dismissal by both UFO researchers and debunkers as a hoaxer is pretty damn meaningless now that thousands of human visitors to his ranch over the last few years have themselves seen --and documented with still and video images-- the impossible. Now Gilliland’s attackers have faded away and are hunting better pickin’s.

Gilliland has been recorded predicting specific times when the UFO craft will appear. They often do. No matter what you believe about him, he has shown us the beef.

Now that Gilliland can no longer be whipping boy for debunkers and UFO skeptics crying HOAX, the naysayers and witness suppression factions are working overtime to destroy or impinge the character of anyone who comes forward with a sensational UFO report. This is a type of mind control in itself.

UFO researchers claim that this is a service. That if they prove a particular incident could be faked, then it was faked. Why?

Does the human person not count in this? Most witnesses are not getting paid, don’t want their names out there, and maybe the most revealing characteristic the debunkers would have us ignore is that nearly all witnesses seem frightened.
Sadly, out of the gate, these issues are discounted by well-meaning people on the non-ending quest for validity in the scientific world.

One tip…don’t hold your breath for validity among scientists.

I decided to design a test. I highlighted a case on YouTube that no one could prove one way or the other as a certain fake, reason being, the video was not good. The researcher was at a TV station and was allowed to record the incident off a TV screen. If you read some of the comments the debunkers and those who believe and have an experience treat this witness basically the same. They also assume authority, telling us in absolute language how it was done and what it is…according to them.



These are You Tube comments on my channel from what I call The Certainty Crowd:

“This is faked, 1st object appears crossing the yard. Seems to bounce off ground twice. resembles baseball bat. 2nd Object appears 6 minutes later two sticks hinged at the top representing legs. Takes the exact same path as the first object”

4 minutes is set up time for the next dummy. There is definatly 2 dummies (beings) being used here. Pay attention to the route that (angle) the dummies move with relation to the digital readout of the clock. This is definatley faked. I'm not saying the owner of the house did it, somebody was probably playing a trick on him, maybe the next door neighbors. Knowing that he would freak out and call somebody

“Poor quality video. It's a security camera, they are known for lack of quality. What I am talking about is the angle of movement (which is 4 minutes apart) is EXACTLY THE SAME. The digital readout of the clock reads 12: 42: ^ 48 for the first being and 12: 46: ^ 48 for the second being. THE ^ character denotes the position where both being pass the readout of the clock. It is theoretically imposible for two beings to walk the exact same path 4 minutes apart.”


In the second YouTube I posted, you can see that most of the debunking rhetoric was way off base. My reason for doing this was not to prove this particular record of this particular incident was real, rather, it was to prove that this Certainty Principle Crowd are not only full of hot air, they also reflect a tone devoid of compassion.



I ask, has there been credible reports by good witnesses on the following:
UFO craft?
Small creatures associated with these craft?
Abductions?
Mental Contact?

One of three ET photos taken by 8 year old child the parents would no longer cooperate:

Why do we keep actively or passively investing in the culture of UFO witness devaluation? If you believe some or even most of the above elements reported in many UFO reports are possibly true, why automatically assume your objective is to prove the witness wrong?

If you believe rigid thinking doesn’t influence outcome, go to a court of law any day and watch hired scientists --hired guns with charts, graphs, CVs and PhDs-- duke out the evidence on both sides of the question.

Why is it that for sixty years, all of these videos and photographs are suspect, and the witnesses who shot them held in contempt, even though no clear motive for fakery was found except in the rarest handful of cases?

I address these issues because you can see the clash of egos all around us. I think we all have to look at how our egos help and hurt the UFO research community.

I really believe that we have a duty to promote the integrity of most of the witnesses who come forward. They are not Hoaxers.

I know science is what drives us forward, but what I see being practiced today relates not to science, but to a rigid prejudice among researchers, and to a strange need among our own ufology community to control not only the message about UFOs, but to control which messenger is accorded credibility.

Read some of the follow-ups on these cases, do the homework.
Researchers ask yourself some crucial follow up questions before:
1. What it is about a certain case that closes my mind to the possibility it is real?
2 .Do I automatically, because of the nature of the witness report, social status or race begin with the attitude “this is a hoax”
3. Do I try and prove my own hypothesis wrong.
4. Do I attack the witness in a public forum before I have all the facts in.

In the most sensational cases, if we dig we find out that once the notoriety dies down, the witnesses who were so salaciously debunked --the Hills and Travis Watsons out there-- their actions do not in any way reflect the profile of a hoaxer. Many times their, life after the experience, reflects seclusion and bitterness at some of us.

DVD Clip Faces Of ETs
(International UFO Congress; Maussan Presenter)



Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog