A lot has been taking place in UFOOLogy of late, stuff that’s so foolish and so widely-reported elsewhere, that I am unable to see any motive to jot down about it. Many have lastly woken as much as the truth that David Grush and different “whistleblowers” inform dramatic tales, however haven’t any proof in any respect – a state of affairs that has persevered for many years. (Within the Seventies and 80s, Len Stringfield of MUFON was telling nearly an identical tales – additionally with out proof). The Peruvian “alien mummies,” offered to the Mexican Congress by Jaime Maussan, are being soundly and deservedly mocked because the frauds they’re. These mummies have been known to be non-alien for at least five years now; so anybody concerned of their promotion both did not do any analysis, or else did not care and wished to advertise fakery.
Which brings us to the brand new collection Encounters, which premiered on Netflix on September 27. There have been excessive hopes amongst UFO proponents for this collection, one in all whose Government Producers was.Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Tv. I believe many had been disenchanted. I’ve solely seen the primary episode up to now, and located it tedious and boring. Its major case is the well-known and widely-witnessed incident from Stephenville, Texas on the night time of January 8, 2008. Way more time was spent telling us how individuals felt about what they noticed, than making an attempt to research what they noticed.
It is unusual that Encounters would put a lot emphasis on the Stephenville case. There isn’t any longer any thriller about what occurred in Stephenville on January 8, 2008. UFO skeptic and retired Air Pressure pilot James McGaha investigated, and submitted his findings to Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier, who revealed them within the January/February, 2009 difficulty. The article is on-line here. It seems that the sightings occurred inside a “MOA”, a Army Operations Space, the place navy coaching routinely goes on.
The FAA knowledgeable McGaha on January 18 {that a} group of 4 F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron entered the working space at 6:17 pm native time. A second group of 4 F-16s entered the identical space at 6:26 pm. They departed at 6:54 and 6:58, respectively. The time the plane had been flying within the MOA accords with the time of the sightings….
What had been the plane doing? McGaha says they had been flying coaching maneuvers that concerned dropping terribly shiny flares. The LUU/2B/B flare is nothing like the usual flares you would possibly consider. These flares have an illumination of about two million candlepower. They’re meant to gentle up an enormous space of the bottom for nighttime aerial assault. As soon as launched, they’re suspended by parachutes (which frequently hover and even rise because of the warmth of the flares) and light-weight up a circle on the bottom higher than one kilometer for 4 minutes. The flare casing and parachute are ultimately consumed by the warmth. At a distance of 150 miles, a single flare can nonetheless be as shiny because the planet Venus. McGaha additionally describes the testimony of a medical helicopter pilot, a retired U.S. Military pilot, flying that night time, who noticed the lights. He stated: “I noticed a number of navy plane, with some dropping flares, within the space of the Brownwood 1 MOA.”
That episode additionally confirmed us radar returns, supposedly demonstrating the presence of unknown objects contained in the MOA at the moment. What does this mean?
These uncooked knowledge include 2.5 million factors of noise and scatter. MUFON’s report chosen simply 187 of those factors to contend that radar had tracked an enormous “object” a minimum of 524 ft in dimension, touring close to the Western White Home (the Bush ranch, which is fifty miles southeast of Stephenville). “MUFON’s radar evaluation is nothing greater than cherry selecting the 187 targets out of two.5 million factors of noise and scatter to make a monitor shifting forty-nine mph for over one hour,” says McGaha. “This evaluation is absurd!”
Case closed. The Stephenville case was a flare drop, primarily a repeat of the flare drop chargeable for the second a part of the well-known Phoenix Lights in 1997. That flare drop also occurred in a military training area. The writers of Encounters both selected to depart out the plain rationalization, or else didn’t hassle to even search for one. In spite of everything, why danger dropping a extremely good “unexplained” case by on the lookout for explanations?
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| A blurry UFO photographed by a Stephenville witness, weeks after the principle sighting. |
I am going to attempt to watch Episode 2 of Encounters quickly, if I really feel I can abdomen it.
One other Well-known Flare Drop – The UFO From 29 Palms
Again in Might, the foremost information media had been full of breathless accounts of a “mass UFO sighting” within the California desert, at Twentynine Palms two years earlier. Now, that truth alone ought to have raised one’s eyebrow, as a result of it’s well-known that that is the situation of a significant coaching base for US Marines. So it might be affordable to suspect from the start that the Marines had one thing to do with this.
However the Regular Suspects had been hyping the incident as if it were something utterly amazing:
A number of movies seem to point out a UFO flying over Camp Wilson in Twentynine Palms, California. The movies had been recorded in April 2021 however solely just lately launched by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp throughout an episode of their podcast, Weaponized.
Corbell and Knapp stated that a minimum of 50 individuals, together with dozens of Marines, reported seeing the triangular object with lights on its edges. The article was within the air for about ten minutes and prompted a response from navy officers, who dispatched helicopters and dozens of vehicles to the world.
It sounded too good to be true, and certainly it was. Research by Mick West of Metabunk and John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault confirmed that there certainly was an enormous coaching operation involving flare drops occurring in the course of the night time in query, and that images taken of the flare drop match completely with images by those that believed they had been seeing UFOs. Just like the Stephenville incident, and the Phoenix Lights incident, a navy flare drop has once more been proven to be the reason for a highly-publicized UFO case.
Whereas this UFO case was everywhere in the information, I used to be listening to an oldies radio station, and so they performed a 1947 hit by the Andrews Sisters, The Lady From Twentynine Palms. It tells about one younger girl:
She left twenty-nine damaged hearts
Damaged in twenty-nine components
Now there are twenty-nine fellas complainin’ to their mothers
In regards to the girl from 29 Palms
She acquired twenty-nine Cadillacs
Twenty-nine sables from Sach’s
They got here from twenty-nine fellas who by no means had their arms
Across the girl from 29 Palms
The purpose being that, with so many single younger males within the Marines in Twentynine Palms, a pretty obtainable girl may be showered with items by all the lads pursuing her.
So it occurred to me that this UFO must have its personal model of the track. With just a little assist from my Muse (that is like a Moose, solely smaller), I settled on this, as a starting.
It had twenty-nine flashing lights
Gave twenty-nine individuals a fright
And now it is on the information for twenty-nine nights,
It is the UFO from 29 Palms!
Maybe you may suppose up some extra verses?
