His 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry contained his proposal for a system of classifying UFO sightings. The system was envisioned as a first step in legitimizing UFO research as a valid scientific pursuit. When a witness is less than 500 feet from the observed phenomena, this was labeled a Close Encounter. The distance from the observer was important because, depending on the apparent size of the observed anomaly, details may be less obvious and mistaken for something truly unknown.
I love Monty Python. What can be better than the TV Star Trek of the sixties with Monty Python?
Here's Gumby on the Moon. When I was a kid Gumby freaked me out; I never got Gumby. I watched it a lot though, always trying to get it, but never did.
A Contactee song from the Golden Age of Contactees!! Great find. Don't you just love YouTube?
From the blurb on YouTube:"Duck Dodgers in the 24½th (twenty-fourth and a half) Century is a Merrie Melodies cartoon created in 1952 and released on July 25, 1953, starring Daffy Duck as space hero Duck Dodgers, Porky Pig as his assistant, and Marvin the Martian as his opponent. Marvin the Martian had been introduced as a villain then named Commander X2 in Haredevil Hare (1948) playing opposite Bugs Bunny, but this cartoon was the first of many appearances of Duck Dodgers.
Marvin was never named in the original shorts (he was called Commander X-2 in The Hasty Hare in 1952), but decades later when the character attracted merchandising interest he obviously needed a name, so the current one was selected. Marvin wears a Roman soldier's uniform (a reference to Mars being the Roman god of war)"--
go here to read more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
DTDQHSI2c10
I loved Marvin the Martain; I remember watching not only this but all the great cartoons from Warner Brothers.
From the blurb on YouTube:
"What if this film had been scored by the great Carl Stalling? Maybe this..."
I really like this one!
From the blurb on YouTube:
"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" is a song by Klaatu, originally released in 1976. The following year, The Carpenters covered the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=gB51ehx1q9w
Landing in a flying saucer spacecraft, Tony and Roger are captured by hillbillies who think that they are martians.
UFOs: Plasma, The New Swamp Gas
May 07, 2006
I recently wrote about the items that crop up every so often about how UFOs are dead and gone. (UFOs: Not Dead Yet.) These items are cyclic in nature, insistent in their thesis: UFOs are no longer with us. These appear despite the fact that at the same time, items appear about the latest sightings, encounters, new UFO book and magazine publications, etc. The creaky debunking machine continues however, churning away, giving us the latest explanation for UFOs, reasons on why UFOs are no longer present, or the self-congratulatory, albeit very late news that a particular case was a hoax. (ie, Santelli film.)
On the heels of the most recent bits that UFOs are no longer, are these items that tell us what UFOs are. They are many things, according to these "news" pieces, but one thing is certain, as they tell us: they are not extraterrestrials from outer space. (Or, while rarely stated but certainly implied, are they beings from another dimension, entities of the earth but non-human, and so on.)
Most people, including the average person with a brief acquaintance with UFOs, knows that swamp gas is code for 'explanation for silly flying saucers.'. That?s become a running joke now in pop culture. Well, it seems that, according to the latest news, UFOs really are something as ludicrous; plasma.
Here's a sampling of a few items that have appeared in the past few days:
Scientists explain UFO sightings. Not a creative title, but to the point.Scientists at the Defence Intelligence Staff, part of the Ministry of Defence, reportedly described how glowing "plasmas" of gas were created by charges of electricity. Air flows then sculpted the plasmas into aerodynamic shapes which appeared to fly at extraordinary speeds through the sky.
I am of the opinion that the people writing these things for their various intel agencies are snorting milk out their noses as they come up with these ideas. They go on:As a result, people who thought they'd seen a UFO were instead suffering from "extended memory retention and repeat experiences" induced by the plasmas.
No comment. None needed.
Another one; UFO study finds no signs of aliens.People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced."
To really rub it in, they dump a whole shaker full of salt in the wound:There are, of course, other causes of UFOs - aeroplanes with particularly bright lights, stray odd-shaped balloons and strange flocks of birds, to name but a few.
Apparently they just couldn't resist.
It's dazzling to see how quickly this official explanation has made its way to the news feeds. If you can't smell Big Bad Debunker in all this, it's because, as the saying goes, you haven't been paying attention.
UFO Updates. Anyone who sincerely swallows this explanation for UFOs -- that it's plasma -- is simply naive, stubborn, or both. And if both, that?s a dangerous combination.
It's been awhile since I posted something here, and I'm sorry for that. Just too busy with work and other issues right now. But here's a little something I found on YouTube, a collection of old flying saucer movie clips, set to modern metal or something, I dunno, I'm old. Enjoy.
I found this, from 1952. It’s Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2) by Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan, who:
using techniques that dated back to the golden age of radio, created a splash with a new kind of record, the "Break-in." Break-ins used pre-recorded songs at various points during the record. Buchanan and Goodman employed major hits of 1955-56 to create "Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2)," a reinterpretation of Orson Welles' radio program "The War of the Worlds." This new version of the story of flying saucers invading earth was far more funny than frightening. Audiences agreed, and sales of the record soared to #3 on the Billboard charts.
Their schtick went like this:
Part 1
Instrumental opening--“Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” Joe Turner
(spoken) We interrupt this record to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed. The flying saucers are real.
"Too real when I feel what my heart can´t conceal..."--“The Great Pretender,” The Platters
(spoken) That was The Clatters recording, Too Real. We switch you now to our on the spot reporter downtown.
"C´mon baby let´s go downtown..."--“The Wallflower,” Etta James
For example. Hey, cool music at least; Etta James, The Patters, etc.
(Maybe Greg Bishop or Adam Gorightly has a recording of this somewhere!)
When he was not performing, Mr. Gleason was often conducting or composing mellow romantic music, ''plain vanilla music'' he called it, which was marketed in record albums with such unpretentious titles as ''Lazy Lively Love'' and ''Oooo!'' He recorded more than 35 albums with the Jackie Gleason Orchestra, and millions of the records were sold. ~ (June 25, 1987)
From a History Channel documentary on UFOs: the 1952 UFO sighting above the White House. See below for more on UFOs in 1952.
