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The Roswell Incident
in Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs:
Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups
(Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books / The Career Press, Inc., 2008)
Sherrif Jim Valenti advising 'hiding-in-plain-sight' Alien-Human Hybrid Max Evans: "Watch your speed! Arrive alive!" Source: Roswell (TV Series - 1999-2002) "Roswell (TV Series) is set in Roswell, New Mexico, site of the 1947 Unidentified
Flying Object [UFO] crash popularly known as ... the Roswell Incident. "Four teenagers are depicted as aliens who appear to be human. "Central to the plot are Max and Isabel Evans, Michael Guerin and Tess Harding, who survived the Roswell crash to hatch from incubation pods in 1989, with the appearance of six-year-old humans, but secretly aware of their true origins. "The relationships between the extraterrestrials and their human companions are a central theme, particularly between leading characters [Alien-Human Hybrid] Max Evans and [the very Human] Liz Parker." — Wikipedia (adapted) | ||||||||||||
| Tagline: | Hey! Roswell is where it's at, as far as UFOs (even lemon ones that crashed), Bug-eyed Greys, Alien-Human Hybrids, and Alien Autopsies go ... and, maybe, love as well between Hybrids and Humans! |
1.0 Preamble
This webpage examines the topic of the Roswell Incident ... Here is a set of video clips of the Roswell Incident, available from the YouTube video hosting site ...If the above menu don't work for your browser (especially, Microsoft's Internet Explorer), try clicking on any of these links:
Title: The Roswell Incident pt1 to pt5
From: jordancorey
Added: June 24, 2007
Info-Description: Listen to first hand witness's talking about what happened at Roswell in
1947
2.0 Notes
Here are some notes on the 'Roswell Incident', available from Wikipedia, that fantastic, free, user-editable online encyclopedia ...Roswell UFO Incident
The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on July 7, 1947, and since the late 1970s has become the subject of intense speculation, rumor and questioning.
There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed.
The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named "Mogul."
Many UFO proponents maintain that a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered, and that the military engaged in a cover-up.
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Excerpted (adapted) from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident
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Continues the Wikipedia posting (online entry) on the 'Roswell Incident' ...
It ranks as one of the most publicized and controversial UFO incidents ever.
Background
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest.Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer."
A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description.
The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years.
Then, in 1978, ufologist [and nuclear physicist] Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft.
His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.
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Excerpted (adapted) from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident
Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO | ![]() Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a Ufo [Illustrated] (Paperback) | |||||||||
Product Description: If UFOS don't exist, then they can't crash. But something did crash near
Corona, a tiny town not far from Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And that crash
has been dissected and debated ever since. Aviation/science writer Don Berliner
and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, the original civilian investigator of
the so-called Roswell incident, have delved into the controversy to find the
truth. They sifted through once-classified government documents, interviewed
military and civilian witnesses, pieced together evidence, considered
alternative theories, and concluded that a UFO crashed near
Corona — and the
U.S. government knew it and covered it up. "Crash at Corona" proves that what
was found in the New Mexico desert wasn't a weather balloon or a secret
weapon — it was a UFO. Author: STANTON T. FRIEDMAN is a nuclear physicist who has worked for General
Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, and other corporations. He is also the
author of "TOP SECRET/MAJIC Author: DON BERLINER has written more than 300 magazine articles and 25 books on aviation history and space and was also a staff writer for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He is board chairman of the non-profit Fund for UFO Research, Inc., and is a delegate to the UFO Research Coalition. | ||||||||||
Continues the Wikipedia posting (online entry) on the 'Roswell Incident' ...
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation.
In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation.
The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons meant to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests and ballistic missiles.
The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien bodies were likely a combination of: innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel; innocently transformed memories of the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s; hoaxes perpetrated by various witnesses and UFO proponents. The psychological effects of time compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy with the years in question.
The comprehensive further examination of the so-called "Roswell Incident" found
no evidence whatsoever of flying saucers, space aliens, or sinister government
coverups. — Headquarters, U.S. Air Force The Roswell Report: Case Closed (1997) | ||
These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation or simply implausible. However, significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that the incident had anything to do with aliens.
Contemporary accounts of materials found
On June 14, 1947 William "Mac" Brazel noticed some strange clusters of debris while working on the Foster homestead, where he was foreman, some 30 miles north of Roswell. This exact date (or "about three weeks" before July 8) is a point of contention but is repeated in several initial accounts, in particular the stories that quote Brazel and in a telex sent a few hours after the story broke quoting Sheriff George Wilcox (who Brazel first contacted). However, the initial press release from the Roswell Army Air Field said the find was "sometime last week," suggesting Brazel found the debris in early July.Brazel told the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a "large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks." He paid little attention to it but returned on July 4 with his son, wife and daughter to gather up the material.
Some accounts have described Brazel as having gathered some of the material earlier, rolling it together and stashing it under some brush. The next day, Brazel heard reports about "flying discs" and wondered if that was what he had picked up.
On July 7, Brazel saw Sheriff Wilcox and "whispered kinda confidential like" that he may have found a flying disc.
Another account quotes Wilcox as saying that Brazel reported the object on July 6.
Sheriff Wilcox called Roswell Army Air Field. Major Jesse Marcel and a "man in plainclothes" accompanied Brazel back to the ranch where more pieces were picked up. "[We] spent a couple of hours Monday afternoon [July 7] looking for any more parts of the weather device", said Marcel. "We found a few more patches of tinfoil and rubber." They then attempted to reassemble the object, but Brazel said they could not. Marcel took the debris to Roswell Army Air Field the next morning.
As described in the July 9, 1947, edition of the Roswell Daily Record,
The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been 12 feet long, [Brazel] felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter. When the debris was gathered up, the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine, and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil. There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable Scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction. No strings or wires were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of attachment may have been used.
A telex sent to an FBI office from their office in Dallas, Texas, quoted a major from the Eighth Air Force on July 8:
THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED FROM A BALLON [sic] BY CABLE, WHICH BALLON [sic] WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT [unintelligible] BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF.
News reports
Early on Tuesday, July 8, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release which was immediately picked up by numerous news outlets:The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.
Colonel William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th, contacted General Roger M. Ramey of the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ramey ordered the object be flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field. At the base, Warrant Officer Irving Newton confirmed Ramey's preliminary opinion, identifying the object as being a weather balloon and its "kite", a nickname for a radar reflector used to track the balloons from the ground. Another news release was issued, this time from the Fort Worth base, describing the object as being a "weather balloon."
In Fort Worth, several news photographs were taken that day of debris said to be from the object. The debris was consistent with the general description of a weather balloon with a kite. Ramey, Col. Thomas J. Dubose and Marcel all posed with the debris. Brazel, in interviews that day with the Roswell Daily Record and Associated Press, dismissed the military's "weather balloon" assertion. Citing several other weather balloons he had recovered previously on the ranch, he said: "I am sure what I found was not any weather balloon."
Alien accounts emerge
New witness accounts and the emergence of alien narratives
In 1978, former nuclear physicist and author Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Jesse Marcel, the only person known to have accompanied the Roswell debris from where it was recovered to Fort Worth. Over the next few years, the accounts he and others gave elevated Roswell from a forgotten incident to perhaps the most famous UFO case of all time.By the early 1990s, UFO researchers such as Friedman, William Moore, Karl T. Pflock, and the team of Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt had interviewed several hundred people who had, or claimed to have had, a connection with the events at Roswell in 1947.
Additionally, hundreds of documents were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, as were some apparently leaked by insiders, such as the disputed "Majestic 12" documents.
Their conclusions were that at least one alien craft had crashed in the Roswell vicinity, that aliens, some possibly still alive, were recovered, and that a massive cover-up of any knowledge of the incident was put in place.
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[Stanton] Friedman, a nuclear physicist and noted "UFOlogist" ( Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO (The Definitve Study of the Roswell Incident) — Gary D. Barber (1996) SUNY at Fredonia Library | |
Numerous books, articles, television specials and even a made-for-TV movie brought the 1947 incident fame and notoriety so that by the mid-1990s, strong majorities in polls, such as a 1997 CNN/Time poll, believed that aliens had visited earth and specifically that aliens had landed at Roswell and the government was covering up the fact.
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A new narrative emerged which was at strong odds with what was reported in 1947. This narrative evolved over the years from the time the first book on Roswell was published in 1980 as many new witnesses and accounts emerged, drawn out in part by publicity on the incident. Though skeptics had many objections to the plausibility of these accounts, it was not until 1994 and the publication of the first Air Force report on the incident that a strong counter-argument to the presence of aliens was widely publicized.
Numerous scenarios emerged from these authors as to what they felt were the true sequence of events, depending on which witness accounts were embraced or dismissed, and what the documentary evidence suggested. This was especially true in regards to the various claimed crash and recovery sites of alien craft, as various authors had different witnesses and different locations for these events.
However, the following general outline from UFO Crash at Roswell (1991) by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt is common to most of these accounts:
A UFO crashed northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. The military acted quickly and efficiently to recover the debris after its existence was reported by a ranch hand. The debris, unlike anything these highly trained men had ever seen, was flown without delay to at least three government installations. A cover story was concocted to explain away the debris and the flurry of activity. It was explained that a weather balloon, one with a new radiosonde target device, had been found and temporarily confused the personnel of the 509th Bomb Group. Government officials took reporters' notes from their desks and warned a radio reporter not to play a recorded interview with the ranch hand. The men who took part in the recovery were told never to talk about the incident. And with a whimper, not a bang, the Roswell event faded quickly from public view and press scrutiny.
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Excerpted (adapted) from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident
... the majority of UFO true believers will continue to believe what they want
[to believe], despite any facts to the contrary. My experience is that a
significant portion of the UFO hobbyist community use their obsession as a form
of excitement, for the feeling of being "in the know", and as a substitute for
a life. Deep down, they hope that we are being invaded by evil aliens! — Jim Keith Saucers of the Illuminati (Kempton, Illinois, USA: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999, 2004) | ||
3.0 YouTube Videos
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3.1 Video Clips
The popular video hosting site, YouTube, carries a large quantity of videos about the Roswell Incident ... Here is a selection of those videos that I like and found to be "instructive" (!), as the Sherlock Holmes character created by UK's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, would say ...If the above menu don't work for your browser (especially, Microsoft's Internet Explorer), try clicking on any of these links:
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3.1.1 Video Summaries
Here are the YouTube video summaries:
Title: UFO 1947 Roswell
From: uflyingo
Added: January 08, 2007
Info-Description: ALIEN SIGNALS
Title: UFO - Roswell Saucer Crash & Aliens
From: xyzmikey2
Added: January 13, 2008
Info-Description: Is It Really A Government Cover-Up?
Title: Roswell Debris Tested
From: jaser7
Added: October 07, 2006
Info-Description: See actual debris from the Roswell spacecraft that crash landed in 1947.
Title: Roswell Alien UFO's 60 Years Later - VOA Story
From: MyEarbot
Added: June 29, 2007
Info-Description: Sixty years ago this July, something happened in the desert about 100
kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time
reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the wreckage had been taken
to the U.S. Army Air base just outside of Roswell. The military said it had
been a weather balloon that crashed.
But many people who research UFOs -- unidentified flying objects -- think
aliens from another planet crashed in New Mexico and they have made the Roswell
incident a major focus of their attention. Local people have decided to go
along with all, much to their profit.
There are some scenic places in New Mexico for tourists to visit. But they are
all about a two hour's drive from Roswell. Very few tourists came here before
the aliens arrived.
Roswell's big attraction now is the UFO Museum and Research Center. Sandy James
is deputy director. "Basically, a long time ago, if you came to Roswell, you
were lost. Now, if you come to Roswell, you are coming to see the museum."
People from around the world flock here to see exhibits about the July 1947
incident and other UFO stories. They also buy lots of souvenirs.
Roswell, a town of some 50,000 people, will double in size during the four days
of the 60th anniversary UFO Festival in early July.
One of the serious Roswell residents is former Texas civil engineer Dennis
Balthaser. He says his investigations have convinced him that the U.S. military
did recover a crashed alien craft 60 years ago and hid it from the public.
It is not likely that any dramatic new evidence will emerge at the upcoming UFO
conference here to change anyone's mind one way or the other on the Roswell
incident.
But the questions about what happened here 60 years ago will never be resolved
unless, of course, the aliens themselves were to pay a return visit just to
clear things up.
Title: UFO TECHNOLOGY FROM ROSWELL 1947
From: joeching
Added: February 01, 2008
Info-Description: One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the
ufo crash in roswell. The U.S. Government says no. Who do you believe?
Title: UFO-Roswell with Colonel Phillip Corso Part 1 & Part 2
From: ringlerum
Added: February 21, 2007
Info-Description: A Date Line Interview with Retired Colonel Phillip Corso who was one of
the Military men who recovered the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico
The following video has been "... disabled by request", most probably by the one who originally uploaded to YouTube ... You can probably still view it in YouTube via the following URL: Title: Rosswel [sic] UFO crash 1947 |
The following video has been "... disabled by request", most probably by the one who originally uploaded to YouTube ... You can probably still view it in YouTube via the following URL: Title: Roswell UFO Crash |
3.2 Additional Video Clips
Here are another four sets of video clips about Roswell Incident and related stuff ...If the above menu don't work for your browser (especially, Microsoft's Internet Explorer), try clicking on any of these links:
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3.2.1 Video Summaries
Here are the YouTube video summaries for the above additonal video clips:
Title: Alien autopsy area 51 real , true UFO roswell
From: Jiobannimazuza
Added: December 31, 2007
Info-Description: Alien autopsy area 51 real and new ovni ufo et roswell blud gehirn blut
spaceship xflies grey crash rare selten
Title: Alien autopsy area 51 real and new -- Roswell UFO
From: Jiobannimazuza
Added: December 30, 2007
Info-Description: The true movie
Roswell Ufo
Area 51
Title: Alien autopsy area 51 real and new -- Roswell UFO
From: romperwomb
Added: August 19, 2007
Info-Description: Alien Autopsy
Title: UFOs & Area 51 Exposed - Bullet Version
From: UFOTVstudios
Added: December 09, 2006
Info-Description: This video clip features the details of United States Military
involvement with UFO Technology at a secret test base known as Area 51 (aka;
Groom Lake, S4) and a filmed statement from former Secretary of Defense -
William Perry admitting to the existence of the base.
"We do have a military operation going on at Groom Lake, Highly Classified and
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The following two video clips have been "... disabled by request", most probably by the one who originally uploaded to YouTube ... You can probably still view the clips in YouTube via the following URLs: Title: Alien Autopsy Roswell UFO Crash (Original footage) 1/2 & 2/2 |
4.0 Postscript
This webpage examines, via YouTube video clips and notes, the Roswell Incident ... In all likelihood, most of the videos featured here are either fakes and/or hoaxes ... or are based or drawn from fakes and/or hoaxes. So sad! (This is not to say that there is no possibility that there may be some truth in the matter, of course! But let's not fall into the territory that I refer to as 'The Fringe'!)![]() | ||
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It is my sincere hope that you are not, or have not become, so gullible as to fall for anything bogus or nonsensical or farcical, such as falling for stuff like "Astrology" or "I-ching" or some such similar garbage ... including falling for anything that is featured, as a warning, in our public service webpages — our entire Mysteries of the World / MOTW Website is geared to warn readers and viewers of these scams, hoaxes, frauds and tricks, in other words, we are asking you to beware and be aware!
It is intellectually dishonest to believe in something that is not true, even if it is profitable (that is, even if it makes you a lot of mullah, money, cash, whatever); surely, you are not chained to the "bean-counter" mentality, are you? Because if you are, that is really, really sad!
If you want to be liberated or if you want to awaken, then walk away from that which is not the truth! ("The truth shall make you free", says the Bible, right? Yes!) Especially, don't be so chained to the money, that you become "richly asleep", unable to awaken from the nightmare of your own making that has ensnared you!
[Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening;puts it:
see also Living with the Devilaka ego or Mara]
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Telling the Truth (About Santa, Etc. ...)
One mother I know cheerfully admitted that the whole story was hokum and forfeited her children's trust for the rest of her life. A father of my acquaintance tried to stress the poetic truth of the tale and faced an embarrassing interrogation about his hocus-pocus with Santa suits, Christmas stockings and half-eaten mince pies. Another said, 'It's true about Santa the way it's true in the book that Long John Silver was a pirate.' 'So it's not true,' his little boy replied. An academic couple, after discussing it thoroughly between themselves, decided to tell their children, 'It's true that Santa brings you your presents in the same way that we speak of the wind hurrying or the sun smiling.' The little boy and girl, who concluded that the sun and wind exist and that Santa does not, never forgave them for this evasion.
A schoolmaster who taught my own children and had a very pious little girl tried saying that the Santa story was a parable: 'You don't suppose,' he said, 'that the things Jesus told in the parables actually happened, do you?' The child ceased to be pious. Fellow-Catholics gave me rival advice. 'Tell your boys,' one said, 'that the Santa story is an attempt to express the divine love that is reflected in parents' love for their children.' I felt this was good doctrine but that there was no place for Santa in it. 'Of course Santa exists,' the other asserted. 'He's Saint Nicholas, mediating for children.' I was prepared to admit this but felt that it tended to make the image of the gift-bearer pagan and abominable - which, I suppose, it is. I still feel the Santa tale is more than just another of the falsehoods we invent to manipulate our victims but I have not yet found the sense in which it is true or a way of expressing it which exactly fits the facts.
-- Thomas Dunne, Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed (1997)
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And if you think that the UFO phenomenon is just for the fringe crowd, the kooks, the 'need to get a life' layabouts, and the pseudoscientists, etc., etc., etc. ... think again!
The videos are a bit longish than perhaps necessary ... and there are some boring parts, here and there, especially for the 'fast crowd' with byte-sized attention spans ... but nevertheless the 9-part YouTube video is an eye-opener of a documentary produced and aired during the last years of the 20th century (specifically, in 1998).
UFOs are serious stuff to the Russians ... so don't take things too lightly! Especially in this new 21st Century ...
If the Russians think UFOs are real, and if they think they can reverse-engineer UFO-Alien technology to their political, economic, military and security (PEMS) advantage ... well, the 21st Century might just become a Russian century, and we might all just be sipping illegal Volka in underground resistance-movement hideaways (much like the French Resistance folks back during the Second World War)!
Now ... do things begin to take on a new light?
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What the Mysteries-of-the-World (MOTW) Website is about ... In general, we are a website about the Mysteries of the Universe (where 'World' = 'Universe') ... and the term 'Mysteries of the Universe', of
course, encompasses the more staid and serious scientific Mysteries about the
Cosmos, aka Universe, including such mysterious topics as Supernovas, Black Holes, Red Dwarfs, Pulsars, Neutron Stars, and Galactic Superclusters, Clusters and Groups .... For the more sensationalised Mysteries, we are thus also a site that examines the Mysteries surrounding the controversial and perennially-interesting Roswell Incident, UFOs, Aliens, Anti-gravity Propulsion Systems and the like ... We also deal with
and so on and so forth (other examples of Indexes/Indices will become available) ... Along the way, we will examine unusual topics such as
And, we will also explore to the full the meanings of such terms as
This includes an examination of the various terms associated with what I call 'The Fringe' —
Eventually, this site will grow to such an extent that it really will become an all-inclusive and comprehensive Index of these and other Mysteries of the World ... proceeding from the Index Page, to every other webpage and every 'web article' ... As we are still an evolving site (and blog), our current system of arranging the Index of Mysteries (as it were) is a tentative one ... ultimately, we will achieve an Index (or system of pointers) that can bring you, the reader-cum-viewer, to each and every known Mystery, either directly or via various cross-referencings ... The Science of the Librarian will come in handy here, I am sure! To re-iterate: this site will eventually become an all-inclusive and comprehensive Index of Mysteries ... such an Index cannot be build up in a day, even with an army of eager beavers at work ... so that the Index will be growing, day after day, week after week ... Wish us luck and pray for us for God's blessing on this project. | ||
Caveats to Mysteries Explorers, Investigators & Students ... In this web site, our aim is to see whether we are any nearer to understanding
the 'Mysteries', and even perhaps to see whether we are close to 'solving' them or reaching
some other kind of closure. Please note that, although I am not a scientist, I am quite Science-grounded so that this site is also Science-grounded ... and I embrace such ideas as are embodied in:
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More Caveats ... It's incredible the things that people believes in ... such as Cryptozoology,
with its collection of impossible-to-find 'cryptids' (aka 'paranormal'
creatures), prominent examples of which are Bigfoot or Sasquatch , the Loch
Ness Monster, Skunky, and Chupacabra. "Penn & Teller [Bullshit!] - Cryptozoology" (Excerpt)And, of course ... as an intelligent and non-gullible person, you should not believe in such nonsense, unless there is proof! Extraordinary claims must be accompanied by extraordinary evidence or proof. But so far, no such evidence or proof has been offered that would satisfy anyone whose explorations are reality-based or whose investigations are truth-based ... such reality- and truth-based explorations-investigations are conducted by the mainstream scientists (like the late Nobel-prize winning physicist and all-round maverick, prankster and amateur bongo player, Dr. Richard Feynman) as well as by the professional skeptics (such as the famous and much-sought after speaker who is also the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, Dr. Michael Shermer). It is so easy to fool ourselves — many of us are surprised to learn that the easiest person to fool is often ourselves! — as Dr. Feynman warned us when he gave a lecture about Science, especially that bogus variety that he called "cargo cult science". We also tend to see what we want to see or we believe what we want to believe — as Dr. Shermer observes and cautions in his writings and many presentations in conferences and appearances on TV. "Cognitive bias" and/or "perceptual errors" are terms that Dr. Shermer uses to refer to the matter. Besides errors of cognition, there is also a tendency to interpret many things
according to our affective bias, meaning an emotive state which is engendered by being easily influenced
emotionally by events ... And we should be aware that we also may be plagued
with 'selective memory' to boot, so that we interpret events out of the time
sequence in order to fit our beliefs, prejudices and interpretations of the
events ... Unknowingly, many people suffer from both cognitive and affective biasnesses — I happen to know a few of them in the real world, but these people don't seem to live in the real world ... Let's look for the simpler explanation rather than the dramatic or sensational, and often, impossible, explanation — applying with care the principle of parsimony (where less is often better), or Occam's Razor. Remember: a possibility does not equal to a reality! Many things are 'possible'; they have a tiny chance or probability of occurring, but they usually do not happen or cannot happen at all. Finally, if you want to see if you are delusional, biased, prejudiced, gullible, and totally ungrounded in reality or Science, then check out whether you have fallen into the trap that I call 'The Fringe'. | |||||||||||
| This website is predicated on the basis of the following categorization of the
Sciences ... Four Categories of Science By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science:
In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination, who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead to the death penalty for the accused. We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other. Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal evidence are complex and detailed. When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers. The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound? What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an aspirin held at arm's length)? Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times. The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as something conventional. — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist) ![]() Source: Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist) Flying Saucers and Science Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups
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