UFO Religions

Another “Disclosure” Gullibility Fail

My blog reader treated me this morning to this post from UFO Mystic. It is headlined “NSA Document Verifies ET Contact” and touts a de-classified NSA Technical Journal article by H. H. Campaigne that examines radio signals from space.  The article determines that the signals show intelligence and then ends by saying that more signals from space have been received.  Must be Disclosure!  A little digging would show that wasn’t and isn’t the case.

The PDF at the UFO Mystic link takes you to an NSA Technical Journal article from volume 14, issue no. 1.  The first paragraph alludes to an earlier article (volume 11, no. 2) which is not provided by UFO Mystic (or the site from which it got the story), nor by many other websites tossing this “disclosure” around.  Here is the earlier article (also written by Campaigne), which took less than five minutes of my time to find.  That article in turn refers to yet another previous article (NSA Technical Journal, volume 11, no. 1) written by Lambros Callimahos.  Another five minutes of work.  So what’s the point?

The point is that, taken in order and context, this whole thing is a thought experiment between Callimahos and Campaigne, and their readers, in the NSA Technical Journal on hypothetical contact and decipherment of an ET signal. These were released in 2004 to boot — to no hullabaloo. Disclosure Gullibility FAIL again. The whole exercise is sketched out here if you are curious.

Technorati Tags: Callimahos, Campaigne, disclosure, ET, NSA, NSA technical journal, radio, SETI, signal

Video of Alleged Alien Corpse in Russia

UPDATE 4/20/2011

[In a shocking development it turns out that the alien corpse in the video is faked. Thanks to "Terry the censor" in the comments section.]

You can watch the video here. The head really looks fake to me, and I’d like the difference in discoloration explained as well. I’d also like to know why there are no debris, the location, etc. My best guess is that this alien body came from the Noah’s ark “discovered” a year or so ago by a Chinese team.

Methinks that we have some enterprising Russians who smell American dollars or a trip to the US.

Technorati Tags: alien, corpse, dead, Russia

Jerusalem UFO Hoax

For all of you who have emailed me (some breathlessly) about the UFO hovering over the Dome of the Rock a few days ago, I have three requests:

1) Watch this and learn a few things to look for to detect similar hoaxing in the future. The hoaxing techniques are clever, but easy to detect for people who know what to look for.

2) Instead of believing first and then engaging in critical thinking or analysis, reverse that process.  It will be good for both of us.

3) Don’t email me about any other UFO events until you spend a few days or a couple weeks doing #2.

Sorry, no Bible-UFO prophecies fulfilled today (or a couple days ago).

Honestly, it’s embarrassing how we simply can’t seem to suspend belief on these things long enough to pause and think, and to wait for people within the interested UFO community with video and graphic skills to do their thing. I don’t have those skills, but I’m blessed with a mind that doesn’t like gaps in coherence. My first thought was, why is it, that in this place — arguably the worst hot spot in the world — that (a) we don’t have a single mainstream news report of this and (b) we don’t have DOZENS of videos and stills for it? And before you say the mainstream media would cover it up, get real — they reported the O’Hare UFO, the recent Utah lights, and all the odd “vortexes” in Norway (just some examples). The mainstream may make light of it, but they WILL report something if enough people come forward with an event.  You can bet your gluteus maximus that a bright flash of light on the temple mount of all places would draw media attention. Or a riot. It’s a powder keg.

Technorati Tags: dome of the rock, Jerusalem, UFO

Wikileaks Promises Leak of Secret UFO Documents

Pardon me for yawning.

Julian Assange and Wikileaks, dutifully serving the Obama administration’s goal of embarrassing the president’s most serious Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, has said that he will release UFO-related documents found in his government cache of illegally obtained documents.  Another yawn.

Here’s my prediction (putting my Great Karnak hat on … there it is). The secret documents will reveal:

1. That there have been UFO reports (old news there; check).

2. That the government has shown an interest in some of those reports and sought to identify the UFO (old news there; check).

3. That certain government and military officials don’t know what some of the UFOs are (old news there; check).

In a nutshell, these documents will sound like all the other ones. Now for some small-c conspiracy thoughts.

I wonder how we can tell if they are authentic?  Think about it. Can we really trust Wikileaks? Are they agenda-less? (I’m chuckling now, not yawning). Further, who could possibly verify that Assange or anyone else down the chain have not altered them? Is the government going to step in and say, “well, that’s right, except for this line in this paragraph; we deny that.”  They could, but could we trust them?

This is, frankly speaking, the inescapable world of ufology.  Anyone can (and will) say anything to cast suspicion (and it’s to be taken seriously since it has such a poor — or good — record of disinformation).

Technorati Tags: documents, UFOs, Wikileaks

NASA Astrobiology Press Conference Scheduled for Thursday

No idea what’s going to be said or revealed.  Supposedly the conference deals with “an astrobiological finding” that will have an impact on the search for ET life. You can watch it on NASA-TV (1 pm Central). Here’s the link.