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Stanton Friedman ((July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) gave up his prestigious job as a nuclear physicist to become a full-time ufologist (Photo: Rex Features)
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In 2010 I was staying in Carrizozo, a town that is, like many N.M. towns, half-way to becoming a ghost town, but with a small enclave of artists and available studios. I never thought much about UFO's. I guess I thought it was some kind of legend, like Bigfoot or Atlantis. But while in 'Zozo I met a number of locals who had stories to tell about what their fathers, or aunts, "had seen". Then, around the 4th of July, I drove into Roswell, some 75 miles away across a spectacular mountain road, to buy art supplies. I landed right in the middle of the annual UFO Festival (it is quite a circus, and that year included a "Miss UFO Roswell" contest). And the annual Conference was going on at the Roswell UFO Museum downtown. Two days later I emerged with a very different worldview, which is enlarged and clarified every time I attends the Conference.
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| Famous "weather balloon" photo |
For any who don't know the story, not too far from where the first atomic bomb was exploded lies the little ranching town of Corona, somewhat north of Carrizozo. In the mid and later 40's, the New Mexico desert, with the development of atomic warfare in Los Alamos, was a "hot bed" (no pun intended) of military testing. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Robert Oppenheimer remarked that it brought to life a quote from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."* In the 40's, the most important and powerful military testing in the U.S. was going on in New Mexico. It is not impossible to imagine that not only the Germans and later the Russians were interested in what was going on there.
In early July in 1947 a ranch foreman named Bill Brazel working at an isolated sheep ranch near the small town of Corona, some 75 miles north of Roswell, found a field of debris on his land where a UFO had crashed. Debris included pieces of metal with strange inscriptions, and an aluminum like material that could be crumpled up, but when placed on a table, unfolded itself and became perfectly flat.
He contacted local police, who contacted the military in Roswell, the nearest large town, and also where there is an army presence. Within a day, a large military operation converged on the site, and artifacts, including a presumed crashed vehicle, were taken to a hanger in Roswell, and shortly after that transported to several other possible sites under the greatest secrecy. It is also believed that among the "artifacts" were several alien bodies. One of the reasons this has been included in what we know of the Roswell Incident is that an undertaker in Roswell, as well as several other witnesses, were apparently employed to presumably assist with preserving and transporting the bodies, and there are other reports from people (who are now, because this happened more than 70 years ago deceased) that say they saw bodies as well as debris.
The story was quickly covered up, with a story about it being a "weather balloon", and witnesses went silent, presumably because they or their families were threatened with repercussions if they spoke out. The trials that investigators like Stan Friedman and Don Schmitt have followed are convoluted and complex, and it's best to read some of their books or watch their discussions or interviews to get an idea of the scope of the cover-up - I cannot do it justice here in this Blog. But as Don Schmitt said at the panel this time, he kept coming back because "It's just about the most important story of the millenium - it has an alien vehicle, alien bodies, and a massive cover-up by the government. It won't let us go." I've listened to them for a number of years now, and I believe what they say.
I remember when I was in Carrizozo I met an artist who had a small shop there who told me that her father was a janitor on the military base hanger in Roswell. She said that he told her he saw "little people" in storage there, and he told her to never tell anyone else. Did he make it up to impress his young daughter? Did she make it up to impress me? That's my own small encounter with this mystery.
A speculation that interested me as well was that the UFO's were affected by electro-magnetic phenomena, and early July in New Mexico is famous for the violent electrical storms they call the "monsoon season". One thing is clear, and that is that the military in 1947 covered the crash up exhaustively, from informing the public that the problem was a downed "weather balloon", to threatening locals and their families who had any information or first-hand contact with the event. Where are the bodies and/or artifacts now? When is disclosure going to happen? No one knows, and this is a subject of debate among the dedicated men and women who have been coming to Roswell for so many years.
One of the presentations I found interesting in previous years was by Robert Salas who co-authored a book, Faded Giant, about a UFO incident that he personally witnessed when he was a missile combat crew member monitoring the missile silo in Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in 1967. This was the height of the Cold War, and he recounts that he witnessed a number of UFO's apparently investigating the missile site. During that sighting all 10 of the missile systems went down, and inexplicably remained down until the siting was over! I was impressed with Mr. Salas' humility as he told his story, and his belief that the UFO's were sending a message to us about the danger and futility of atomic warfare.
The earliest known case of Alien Abuction was that of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961, and since then many such stories have surfaced (and some inventive hysteria as well). I was impressed with Yvonne R. Smith D.HT., a professional hypnotherapist who has been working with repressed memories of UFO abductees for many years. She has released a new and updated edition of her book Chosen: From the Alien Hybrid Program to the Fate of the Planet which is very disturbing and fascinating. After thousands of hours of regressions she founded CERO - Close Encounters Resource Organization as a national organization to help people suffering from the trauma of abduction. During her presentations she presents recordings of some of her subjects while under hypnosis. Apparently abductees can often trace their experiences to early childhood (which might explain the presence of tracking devices found in a number of subjects), and abduction continues into adulthood. Among some of her case studies are two double abductions, which she shares in her book. Although most of the abductees are traumatized by their experiences, some apparently are not. Here's a comment from her book by a woman who was abducted, and remembers having extensive "conversations" with the beings that abducted her:
"The point is that these creatures feel we take too cavalier an attitude toward the only environment in which we can truly be comfortable on a very deep level. They see us doing something that they witnessed their own species doing long ago on whichever system they came from, something that grew imperceptibly,l incrementally, until it reached a threshold and then produced complete and quantitative change to conditions on which they could not continue.
The reason they care is because they are also living in our environment, and they are barely hanging on. I get the feeling they can't endure our sunshine, our gravity, our geomagnetic fields, our high-octane emotions for long. They've managed some kind of half-existence here. Whatever we're doing that will have systemic, global impacts on us and economies on which we depend will make their tenuous existence even less tenable.
I get the feeling they are trying to manipulate our genetic material to create bodies fully adapted to our planet but which can also house their own kind of consciousness. They are trying to create a body into which both species can incarnate and express their own styles of consciousness. They're having a helluva time of it, though, above and beyond the technical difficulties of micro manipulating the extraordinarily complex DNA of Earth creatures. Even as our bodies are not adapted to life on other worlds or permanent residence in spacecraft, their consciousness is not adapted to life in our stormy bodies and brains. And, if we're moving as fast as they fear to altering irrevocably the conditions of life on Earth (theirs and ours) they may not have much time left to create a life form adapted to this world, a world which may ironically change out of their design parameters."
I suggest anyone interested in the subject read her most recent book, which can be ordered on Amazon.
Last, I was disappointed that Freddy Silva was not there this year to speak about crop circles, as well as sacred landscapes. While it is now known that most the crop circles that appear are human made, there have been many that are absolutely inexplicable, and Silva has a great deal to share about this communion and phenomenon.
Below, a recent (2017) movie about UFO's that is fascinating.
UNACKNOWLEDGED: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secred (Trailer)
Steven Greer presents new, top-secret evidence supporting Extraterrestrial contact including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly enforcing such secrecy (2017). Included in the documentary is commentary by, among others, Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Edgar Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region of the Moon. He was also the founder of the Institute of Noetic Science and a well known UFOlogist and researcher of the paranormal.
https://youtu.be/9ebdQ-PC0aU
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Nuclear Physicist-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as GE,GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics and McDonnell-Douglas. He became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored “Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident”
TOP SECRET/MAJIC his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through 6 printings. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill’s Niece) of a book in 2007: “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”. His book “Science Was Wrong” with Kathleen Marden was published in June 2010. He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings, appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer in many aspects of ufology including Roswell, Majestic 12, The Betty Hill-Marjorie Fish star map work, analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case, crashed saucers, flying saucer technology, and he has spoken at more MUFON Symposia than anyone else. He will be profoundly missed.
https://youtu.be/DvJBZgDGKjI
