Tag: UFO
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Bellyaches and quakes
One of the stories in Frank Edwards’s non-UFO books illustrates how real science gets suppressed or forgotten, then turns out to be correct in the light of later discoveries. He tells about Bob Barr of Oakland, who reliably predicted earthquakes by his belly. Bob could distinguish a specific kind of activity in his gut that…
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Kleinstpeilempfänger
Fourth in a vaguely defined series on obscure spy equipment. First: Early American radar. Second: Russian modular spy radio Tenzor. Third: Truck-based German direction finder. This is a cross-pollination of 2 and 3. It’s another Peilempfänger by Telefunken, in the same modular miniature form as the Tenzor. Telefunken called it Kleinstpeilempfänger, which is bigger than…
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Barking UFO
Yesterday I proposed or imagined that the larger UFOs might belong to an ancient tribe that figured out how to LITERALLY harness electricity, a tribe that wasn’t spoiled by atom theories. They know how to organize charge patterns for massless or massed appearances. The sightings of small discs flying in groups have a different flavor.…
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Non-barking UFO
I just noticed one huge disjunct between modern UFO discussion and the 1947-1967 discussion. Absolutely all the modern UFOlogists are solely obsessed with the Roswell event. They don’t mention the hundreds of other non-dismissable sightings over thousands of years. It’s just Roswell, Roswell, Roswell, Area 51, alien Greys. Wikipedia partly answers the question. The event…
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Winged metrologists
I bought several of Frank Edwards’s books on UFOs and other subjects. Near the end of his short life he was following the model of Hix and MacHarrie and Nesbitt, producing a set of books and short radio features on historical and scientific oddities, well beyond UFOs. All of these ‘Fortean’ writers were presenting known…
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More on vanished knowledge
Continuing from previous item on mass forgetting… We do know a few things now that weren’t known, or weren’t easily available, in the ’60s, and these new bits of info should inform our discussion now. The earlier UFO thinkers were reluctant to conclude that the devices were ours, because (1) Nobody can keep a secret.…
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No excuse
For a month or two I’ve been pleasantly marinating in UFO discussions, mainly from the mid 60s. Thanks to archivist Wendy Connors, we have a huge well-organized selection of radio programs and interviews. Earlier today I was reminded of Avi Loeb’s pet UFO, and watched some of his recent interviews. He hits the failings of…
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Wish I could find this again…
Every profession and guild occasionally has a spasm of soul-searching, sometimes prompted by a defeat, sometimes more general. Science journals publish these fake pieces fairly often, and EVERYONE KNOWS that nothing will change. We need to persuade the filthy three-toothed Christer Trumper Birther Hillbilly Neanderthals. Why can’t we persuade the subhuman brainless fascists? The problem…
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Poor comparison
Let’s try a comparison of the clubs and interest groups in the 1950s UFO craze vs the 2020 “virus” holocaust. The comparison is messy from the start because the government’s experiments were opposite in form and scale. So I can’t draw a proper analogy. I’m just looking at the organizations. UFO: Government was experimenting with…
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As usual the reason matters more than the content….
According to Vice, Deepstate has “released” a bunch of documents about its UFO research programs. Skimming some of the links, it appears that nothing much has changed since the ’50s. The government was “trying” to achieve antigravity propulsion in Project AVRO back then, and it’s still “trying” the same thing. The beta tests of these…
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Unique in one way
Random thought. The UFO phenomenon was a unique conflict of government vs humans. Normally the government makes up a fake “threat”, calling it an “attack” or “witchcraft” or “commie subversives” or “Islamic terrorists” or a “virus”. Ordinary people are NOT observing the nonexistent “threat”. The government has to persuade us that the “threat” is real…
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Revising a conventional guess
In previous item about a strangely primitive tube-based spy rig, I casually dismissed transistors as not ready for prime time. That was true in the early ’50s, but Russian equipment famously stuck with tubes long after transistors were generally reliable and consistent. Sputnik used submini tubes while our satellites used transistors. Sputnik got there first,…
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Always a thrill
Coral and Jim Lorenzen developed a network of independent UFO observers across USA and South America. Their organization knew what was happening, and thus knew when the media was choosing not to report what was happening. Immediately after Sputnik a large number of media reports came to the surface, and the media went supernova after…
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First American radar
Rehashing from two weeks ago: This early radar installation appeared in a 1945 issue of Electronics magazine, which turned out to be the same issue that momentarily revealed part of the atom bomb before clamping down again. The issue includes a significant editorial on the whole subject of clamping and releasing. = = = =…
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Media puzzle
Trying to sort out a meaningless puzzle. Part of the 1965 ‘banner year’ or Grand Finale for UFOs happened in Okla and Kansas. In August a chain of sightings ran from Chickasha to Wellington to Wichita to KC, including some radar readings at TV stations in Wichita and KC. If the group was seen in…
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