In all fairness I have to say not only was I close but also surprised.

This segment started out exactly as I had suspected. The first mistake was when the narrator Ju Ju Chang stated that the people to be interviewed all “believe in UFOs”.

That set my teeth on edge right there. Not only was I now convinced I was in store for more half-assed reporting and segment direction. To say someone believes in UFOs is absurd. You cannot believe in a UFO as UFO means only Unidentified Flying Object. It’s a scientific term meaning something flying that convention cannot explain. The more proper statement would have been that the persons to be interviewed “believe they’ve been in contact with extraterrestrials”. See, it’s best to say that some UFOs are theorized to be of extraterrestrial origin. There are many theories as to what some UFOs may be.

Next the segment moved onto a more stable approach by finally letting abductees relate their experiences. Chang asked some safe but important questions but they were so lightweight they left more questions than answers. It might have served ABC and the public more if the full subject of abduction were addressed and to what solid scientific methods have, are, and should be employed to validate the phenomena. Has anyone been fitted with a tracking device like we use for convicts who are under house arrest? If not, why not? How long has the phenomenon been going on? How widespread is it?

This segment only safely surfed the issue and the director/producer just had to use quick cuts to movies and unexplained photographs. In other words it was dressed up to within an inch of it’s life as a UFO entertainment piece instead of an informative look on one of the most widespread phenomena of our age. Of course it had to segue’ into what the psychiatric professionals had to evaluate and instead of discussing the findings of the most important psychiatrist to look into the issue, they glance over it to more speculation and nebulous conclusions.

The level of sloppiness wasn’t as high as I had expected although close. It was more of an approach that said the issue is important enough to warrant a glance but no teeth got sunk into this shark.

Dr. Susan Clancy and her evaluation of the phenomena is again so far off base regarding the types of abductions and the wide array of circumstances that to us who have studied, she sounds like a kindergarten colleague. She may mean well, but she’s got a heck of a lot of homework to do. She states that the people she’s examined or interviewed aren’t crazy and that’s what several experts have stated during the past 10 years or so. This is in contrast to what used to be done to people not only who’ve claimed to have been abducted but also just witnesses, as in the old days they would have been sent to a psychiatric hospital and I would have said, or worse, but I can’t think of anything worse than being sent to a psychiatric hospital other than being sent to one in Siberia.

Will this news segment open up dialogue? Hopefully it will but only if that dialogue moves in the direction of the solid application of real science and real detective work. We need that science and detective work to get to the bottom of this issue as well as weed out the charlatans.

The ride ain’t over yet folks.

For the past year the UK has had an astounding number of very public UFO sightings and incidents that range from craft hovering over homes before multiple witnesses, aircraft having to dodge UFOs that almost collided with them, the release of government UFO documents, computer hacker Gary McKinnon’s battle against extradition to the U.S. for hacking into Pentagon computers whilst searching for UFO information, and of recent, a UFO appearing live on television during anchorman Colin Briggs morning BBC broadcast.

We in UFOlogy normally stay on top of things from Great Britain via former Ministry of Defence officer Nick Pope who is the man when it comes to UFO research across the pond. However nowadays the news is so frequent even good ol’ Nick who has given me a quote or two here on the UFO Mafia Blog is up to his glasses in reports.

I’ve mentioned this time and again that any UFO disclosure from the super power arena will come from England way before it comes from the U.S.. We’ve had disclosures from England, France, Russia, China, and several other countries. However the U.S. continues to play a cat and mouse game even when they’re caught lying through their teeth.

The theories as to why the U.S. is so reluctant to confront the matter are numerous but we can rest assured that it’s not because they’re unaware of the situation, the mountains of documentation and highly credible witnesses refutes any official denials. Therefore we are left with one disturbing conclusion and that is that the U.S. has somehow screwed up some form of contact with the intelligences behind these UFO incidents on a scale that would undermine the U.S.’s control. What that screw up or screw ups are remain in debate but more credible sources have emerged that suggest that decades ago there was some form of exchange of information that went awry. If one considers the numerous scandals and blunders committed over the past 60 years one can only imagine to what extent the U.S. has fouled things up.

The U.S. has, and continues to lie, evade, and lack in the integrity it is granted by it’s own laws regarding the informing of the public to it’s operations and if they’ll lie about the drug trade, organized crime, Iran Contra, and more, then it’s better than even money they’re lying about UFOs.

It’s a shame we’ll have to rely on a foreign power to raise our knowledge of the UFO issue but that’s what things are pointing to.

Some of us in UFOlogy are suggesting a collective protest of barraging our governors, legislators, and the White House with emails about the UFO situation until someone bellies up to the bar and acts responsibly regarding the matter. Perhaps I’ll post a list of all acting governors and legislators and their office email data so that you all can let them know how you feel.

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Elmwood Minnesota Celebrates UFOs

If you’re in the vicinity of Elmwood, Minnesota you might want to drop in on the good folks there to help them celebrate their anniversary of several UFO incidents that occurred there in the 1970′s.

According to an article by the Andy Rathbun of the Pioneer Press, the folks in Elmwood will be putting on quite a shindig this weekend.

We Americans will make a celebration out of any event, good or bad. These UFO events keep on cropping up as people find them quite the smart way to generate capital and nowadays capital needs to be generated.

Add to all that the community spirit these growing events cultivate. Stories get told, recipes get invented, all good things emerging from these events from the unknown.

UFOs may not be saints, but where they land, miracles occur.

( I might get in trouble for that last line! )

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Okay gang, the UFO Mafia message board and forum is almost ready so you can click here for it. Bear with me while I tweak the theme and add the necessary forum topics. Bookmark for now.

You’ll be able to discuss UFOs without any arguments and ridicule. Also hopefully events and books and videos regarding UFOs will be posted to keep you up to date on the topic.

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