My 15 Weary Thoughts On Roswell In Weary Post #15

With this post, I have posted more times in 2017 than I did from 2009 to 2016.  Is that good?
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No Aliens

1)  Normal humans are not very good at seeing accurately.  You're going to have all kinds of wild stories told by people who believe them in good faith.

2)  Rarely will the wild stories be true.

3)  Here's one I actually thought of myself:  Roswell aside because it was too long ago, if there really are alien craft zipping around, why have we had cell phone cameras all over the Earth for about 15 years and no really obvious UFO photos have yet shown up?  We can catch the police killing people and put it on tonight's news.  Why can't we catch the aliens, if they're here?  Maybe aliens are faster and sneakier than police.  (Note added a year later:  there are a group of such photos on Youtube.  UFO photos don't get much circulation.)


4) It is hard to prove that a nonexistent thing does not exist.  You can give 17 pieces or evidence that X is not here, or there, or there, and it can still in theory be over the next hill.  It is somewhat easier to prove that something did not happen.

5) In this case it is just as hard to prove that Something Beyond does exist.

6) Officer Weaver's 1990s report does not say "We know Project Mogul was found at Roswell."  It says "We can't be certain and Project Mogul, active at the time in NMexico and classified, seems the most likely explanation," a hell of a lot more likely than a damned alien ship.
7)  The NY Times and many other sober heads reviewed the Roswell case, and most somberly came to the anti-alien conclusion.  They/we are faced with the blunt facts that a) no nonEarth technology became known to the public and b) no Off-the-Earth biological forms showed up in public, either.
          So now we look at what impresses me differently than these somber heads.

Yes Aliens

8)   Leslie Kean, the full-time US journalist most working on UFO stories led the reporting on a huge UFO December 2017 story in the NY Times.  In her book, UFOs, she writes:  When Britain and France released UFO archives just under 10 years ago, the NY Times "focused on a few of the silliest" documents and "provided readers with the standard ridicule and blatantly biased approach traditionally employed by that noted paper."  (p. 118)

9)  Kean gives light to the only "Establishment Press" article on Roswwell I have read was oddly uninterested in reviewing censorship of the press and threatening of witnesses at Roswell.  Quoting UFO cultists and understating witness accounts of odd materials seemed more newsworthy to a science reporter, W. Broad.   One more mystery of Roswell.    See post of Feb. 17.

10) It only took 1/3 of the known age of our universe for sentient life to evolve on Earth.  Given the size of what we see with telescopes, the chance that homo sapiens flew the first spaceship Ever, Anywhere, is essentially zero.  We're not alone in the universe.
       To restate this, there's not a question of intelligent life existing in other places.  It does.  The only question is whether such life has flown here--and crash-landed.

11) If a nonEarth craft was found in 1947, it is completely plausible that the feds would hide that fact, at least until it was clear what they were dealing with.  Then later they might well go on hiding it to avoid revealing details of off-Earth technology they were "reverse-engineering."

12) Let's postulate that the dopes are right and Mack Brazel found a spaceship not built here.  It might never have become, even yet, completely clear what we are dealing with.  Or the truth might have been so frightening that it is best to hide it from people at large.  Like Stargate or the Empire Strikes Back.  If the Empire is six years from striking back at us, how much good does it do for me to know about it before the death ray hits the ground next to me?

13) Colonel Blanchard, high in the only nuclear-weapon-holding unit on Earth, told P. R. officer Walter Haut to tell the press that the unit had a flying disk in its possession.  It is fair to believe that Blanchard had a level-headed idea what a sensation this news release would cause.

14) It appears likely that West Point-educated Blanchard knew something that justified giving the public this "wild impression."

15) The odds that Blanchard, working with intelligence officer Marcel, would release a statement about a flying disk, when what they found was in fact Project Mogul material (a more elaborate weather balloon than normal with other pieces very clearly made on Earth), seem to be under 1 in 10,000.  Mogul was esoteric material, but Blanchard and Marcel were no more likely to conclude that it was alien technology than they would be to so conclude about Kevlar.

16)  A cluster (closer to 70 than 20) of reports have emerged from people associated with 1947 Roswell, pointing to one of these:  a) superhuman materials beyond not only 1947 technology but 2017 technology   b) bodies of "creatures" not known on Earth   c) behavior of closely involved people that does not make sense, when explained by official accounts.  Example:  rancher George Cisneros, Carey p. 66-7    I have bolded this item because it's the one that keeps me coming back to Roswell.  Officialdom's version of events can't account for the behavior of 1) Frank Joyce 2) Jesse Marcel 3) Pete Anaya 4) Frankie Dwyer 5) June Crain 6) Arthur Farnsworth and something like 42 others.  Either these people have to be dismissed as providing unreliable accounts, or there's something we don't know, deliberately hidden.  I find the latter the likely option.

17)  One subcluster of #16 is widely separated people later claiming to have been ordered to shut up about this subject and, in many cases, threatened with great harm if they spoke out. 

18)  Another subcluster of #16 is people who never said they were ordered to shut up, but whose behavior is best accounted for by supposing they were.  Example:  Doctor Jesse Marcel Jr's story of how his dad acted when he came home a couple of days after the press release.  Also both Mack Brazel's behavior, recanting his initial story.

19)  The classic case of #17 is Dee Proctor.  His whole life he utterly refused to discuss what he saw while out with Brazel the first morning.  Yet twice in private to reliable persons, once to his mother when he learned she had cancer, he admitted the nonEarth explanation was correct.  Dee was as deeply involved as anyone could have been; he rode with Brazel when they found the debris.