March 7, 2011
The field of UFOlogy is too broad for its own good. While there is much that is unexplained, and many people who are sane and rational with usual claims, there is a fringe element that sets them three steps back for every single step taken forward. For every Stanton Freidman there are three guys with tinfoil hats to block beams shot at them by Zord, Emperor of Zeta Reticuli.
The following is an article from The Sun, a newspaper in England. I reprint it in its entirety.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/ufos/3441009/I-came-from-a-government-experiment.html
AN EXPECTANT hush descends over the audience in the darkened room as the woman up front begins to twitch.
As she curls her toes inside her worn grey socks, Cathy Star Eagle’s head falls forward and she talks in a low, monotone voice: “Greetings to all who have gathered seeking knowledge and universal truth.”
We’re clearly not at a conference for insurance salesmen.
The bizarre event is an extraterrestrial channelling session at the world’s largest UFO conference, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Each year thousands of flying saucer fans from the UK and all over the world descend on the five-day event – which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary – to hear from a range of wackos. Sorry, speakers.
The Sun has bagged a spot at Cathy’s much-anticipated sideshow – despite a ban on the Press – where she claims to pass on messages from The Ambassador telepathically
Not surprisingly The Ambassador turns out to be an alien, otherwise known as Loran, from the planet M42 in the Orion star system. But to sceptics, Cathy’s description of her ET pal doesn’t really help her case.
She says: “Loran is about 4ft tall, copper in colour, with an Asian appearance. He has a little bit of hair, but not a lot.
“Be careful what you ask because he doesn’t hold back – although he’s always respectful and discreet.”
Cathy, a somewhat overweight woman from nearby Tucson, is now in a trance-like state as she answers one question each from those present.
But rather than seize the chance to ask a real-life alien about intergalactic space travel, the audience are more interested in the mundane, quizzing agony uncle Loran on their house moves, career worries or relationship troubles.
One elderly man asks about his granddaughter, who is battling cancer.
Slowly Cathy, alias Loran, replies: “We do feel this situation is more positive than first thought. The malignancy is not as advanced as feared. Nutrition will be key to overcoming the disease.”
Then she blinks back into consciousness with all the theatrics of a pantomime actor.
Ironically, after telling the man his granddaughter needs a better diet, we spot her later in the restaurant with an equally overweight friend tucking into mammoth-sized hamburgers and fries.
Meanwhile, the conference’s vendor room is abuzz with activity as self-professed UFO experts flog all manner of merchandise. One book catches my attention – We Are Among You Already – and I approach the table for a look.
Author Jujuolui Kuita, 40, starts to chat and when I ask where she’s from, she says cryptically: “From where here on Earth?”
She is in fact from Concord, California, although she insists she is a hybrid, with part-human, part-alien DNA.
She says: “My planet is Faqui in the Andromeda galaxy. Since birth I’ve known I was from another place. I felt isolated and different, that this wasn’t my home.
“I am half reptilian and can shape-shift into another species called Fajan.” I can’t wait to see this.
“It’s scary when it happens in public.”
I really can’t wait.
“Although other people don’t necessarily notice because it happens at a higher frequency than they can see.”
Just my luck.
Elsewhere in the vendor room Cynthia Crawford is doing a roaring trade in scary-looking alien sculptures.
The 61-year-old claims her £115 creations promote contact with extra-terrestrials.
Then Cynthia, of Apache Junction, Arizona, starkly states: “I came from a government experiment. My father told me about it. He had operated with the government in Korea and experimented with alien devices found in their crashed ships.
“My mom was drugged as part of a programme and impregnated with me. For that reason my DNA is only 34 per cent human and I’ve got very porous bones, which are typical of my alien family. There are many races – Zuma Zeta, Tall White Zeta and Blue Archturian. I love them all. I channel their energies into my sculptures.”
Further along the hall Stan Romanek, one of the conference’s main speakers and a famous “alien abductee”, is selling his book, Messages.
The 48-year-old Colorado IT worker was a UFO sceptic until 2000 – when he says he saw his first flying saucer. Since then he claims to have been abducted several times and maintains his story is the most scientifically documented case ever.
Last year his footage of an alien apparently peering in the window of his home caused a media storm. It can be viewed on YouTube.
At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, he says: “You get a lot of whack jobs at conferences like this.”
I like him already.
But he insists: “I’m just a regular guy who came into this community with no clue about UFOs. My first abduction occurred in 2001 when there was a knock on my door at 2am. There were three odd-looking creatures with abnormally large, almond-shaped eyes. They started leading me to the balcony and I felt a tap on the back of my head. Next thing I know, I’m waking up in bed with holes all over my back.”
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about his case is a series of equations he produced under hypnosis.
He says: “I’m not from a maths background and I’m dyslexic, so the symbols look like gibberish to me. One of the equations ended up being the structure of an element we didn’t even have at the time, element 115.
“Dr Claude Swanson, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has confirmed my equations are way above my level of comprehension.
“In fact, he believes they contain clues about the direction that physics is going to take and are beyond current theories in the field.”
By DAVID LOWE
d.lowe@the-sun.co.uk
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
The best question ever asked about UFOs was if they’re so smart, why don’t they show up at the White House, the Kremlin or Buckingham Palace instead always appearing to two guys in a rowboat in swamp somewhere.
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The answer I’ve heard most is that they have but it is all being hushed up. I can’t say if they have or haven’t but I know that there is stuff not being made public. It may be harmless, it may be nothing but pages of guys reporting funny looking clouds, but there are tons of classified documents about this in every country.
I kept this post commentary free because I have strong informed opinions of the UFO phenomena but I prefer to focus on the nutters and tools of the lunatic fringe. They are the most fun!
But anyone can feel free to say whatever they want in response. This is one of the topics I can speak on at legnth and with knowledge.
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“My planet is Faqui”
I don’t know much about planets, but here in Italy we have a famous laxative called Falqui. The difference is just an L, could that be a laxative from Mars?
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I would love to make a comment correlating the use of the laxative and the crap that came out of her mouth but I am too classy.
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I don’t think they need laxatives for that, it just comes natural to them ;-P
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As I said somewhere upthread I have a real interest in the subject but I think it is a realistic interest. These obvious kooks set back the field both in terms of public perception and actual research.
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I share your irritation – I, too, have an interest in supernatural phenomena in general (which are actually perfectly natural, they’re just things man hasn’t been able to analyze and/or understand), but because of these kinds of people everybody looks at me as if I was an idiot whenever I mention ghosts, UFOs, telepathy or anything like that. It doesn’t matter how hard I try to make them understand my (practical and non-superstitious) point of view on the subject, they keep looking at me as if I believed in Santa Claus and the Sandman…
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I try to look at the scientific end of things and I am always surprised when people refuse to look at facts. I understand that facts are open to interpretation but why do people simply deny and ignore them? I have no problem if people look at facts and come to a different conclusion than I do but don’t have a closed mind about it.
One problem with the paranormal field is that so much is claimed to be a part of “spirituality” or “consciousness.” I don’t discount spirituality but it is a blanket term which covers so much nuttiness.
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The problem is that real spirituality is one thing (and, from my personal point of view, it has nothing to do with organized religions or new age silliness), while the kind of “spirituality” that is used as an excuse to feel “different” or “superior” is another thing altogether
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You are preaching to the choir, Mac.
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Sometimes I listen to Coast to Coast…I like George Noori but some of his guests get a little too depressing and nuts…this stuff is fun tho…
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With all my trouble sleeping you’d think I’d listen more than I do. The only thing about the show is that George has made it more political than Art did and I listen to get away from that sort of thing.
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It’s an embarrassment and a shame when folks make claims that they can’t or won’t back up with physical evidence or documentation. It give a black eye to the real researchers who are out there finding credible witnesses and apparent documentation (Stanton Friedman, Leslie Kean, and I do include the very credible Nick Pope here, too). The UFO phenomenon is very real, but widely unexplained. To claim that it’s all bunk just because of the outlandish, is to unfairly discredit all. Back in the 1950’s there was a filmed sighting of UFOs (simply because they are unidentified) flying past the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.; I believe it can be seen on youtube. No one has yet been able to explain or debunk it. I saw a silent-flying disk when I was around ten years old; don’t know where it came from, but it is proof positive that the technology absolutely exists. Just like Ben Rich said, that anything you can imagine (in flight) we can already do. Since Mr. Rich was the head of Boeing Lockheed Skunkworks, I think it lends credibility. Keep looking up, and decide for yourselves what’s real and what isn’t.
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In regard to my “proof positive” statement, I meant that it’s proof positive to me, as I have no documentation to show the rest of the world. There may have been others that were with me and may have seen it too, but nothing was discussed at the time. My apologies for making a statement that I can’t back up to anyone but myself. I still think that the military has a lot of high tech gadgets and craft that they’re keeping to themselves. Thanks.
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Don’t worry about your statements, I (and I hope everyone else) took it the right way.
I think it is a fact that the military has tech that they are keeping to themselves. Soldiers coming back from the Middle East sometimes have stories of amazing things they have seen deployed there.
In terms of concrete proof, how many years did the military deny any type of triangular airplanes until they had to publicly unveil their stealth aircraft? There were so many well-documented sightings and photos that by the end it was nearly a joke. That’s why I believe that the black triangles being spotted over the past few years are military.
I remember, years before they publicly unveiled it, I had a plastic model kit of a stealth airplane that wasn’t too far off from the stealth bomber.
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Thanks Keira.
I think you and I fall pretty much in the same yard here. You make a good point about the Skunkworks, and in general, anything that comes to the public as cutting edge is already 5 to 10 years behind in terms of research, not to mention the military technology that the public doesn’t get to see.
I am very familiar with Stanton Freidman and Nick Pope but Leslie Kean was a new name to me. I googled her and I’m not sure how I never came across her as she has written about many subjects (like Kecksburg) that I am familiar with. thanks for mentioning her.
Thanks for writing in.
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