Cold To Any Form of Truth We Didn't Discover First? What Of The Truth That Something Was Gone In The Blink Of An Eye?

Through a woo-woo medium I hired, two Latter-day Saint friends who had gone on to the next world came and said hello to me.  The catch was that I thought they were both still alive because I hadn't been in touch.  That night I found their obituaries on the Net.  One friend I hadn't talked to for four years and the other for 40 years.

I wasn't sure how to pass the Hello along to their families, since LDS (Mormons) usually see mediums as working on the Dark Side of the Force with Darth Vader.  It's my experience that Latter-day Saints tend to be cold to any form of truth they didn't discover first.

That's too bad since India had a 5,000-year head start on discovering truth before the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith the first Mormon near Lake Ontario in 1820.

This "cold to any form of truth I or my people didn't come up with ourselves" is not unique to Mormondom, though they have it down to a fine art.  I'm often guilty of it myself, and I'm reminded of a tall, competent emergency room doctor I used to work with almost on the Mexican border.  She wouldn't order anything for a patient she didn't think of first.  If my patient was puffing and short of breath, the last thing to do was walk up to this ER lady doc and ask, "How about some oxygen for Jolene Schmoe in room 1?"

If anybody else said the word "oxygen" or "breathing treatment" to the doc before she said it to us, ole Jolene was going to have to breathe on her own recognizance for the foreseeable future.

Might this kind of principle help explain why, say, Carl Sagan, would turn a blind eye to the vast circumstantial evidence of vessels flying around our skies with technology that is Just Beyond?  Including the "gone in the blink of an eye" technology.  We could compile a list of 1000 sober persons claiming to have seen something or someone clearly, only to have it/them not fly away real fast, but Flat Disappear in one second or less.  We could probably make 500 of them be cops and militaries. 

Lots of these accounts would turn out to be problematic, but some would be unexplainable by what we know.  There's a pattern here.  Science progresses by first detecting patterns and then by studying and understanding them.  Yet most card-carrying scientists in the US are avoiding giving attention to this common pattern.

Military Policeman's Sketch Of UFO, Except It Landed, Wasn't Flying

Jim Penniston was a US Air Force security cop at a base in England, about 60 miles northeast of London, and the same distance straight north of Dover, maybe 2 miles inland from the English Channel.  Sgt. Penniston led a security detail of three soldiers to investigate bright lights on Xmas night, 1980, from a downed aircraft next to his base.  When they got close, they saw it wasn't "downed," but landed, sitting still on the ground in an opening in the forest.  He first felt fear but as time passed with no hostile behavior, he calmed down.

Penniston and fellow soldier John Burroughs stood near and walked around the craft for about 45 minutes.  Penniston used up the film in his camera and then made a sketch in his MP cop's notebook.    "I put my hand on the craft and it was warm to the touch.  The surface was smooth like glass . . ."  His drawing shows two views, front and side of a three-cornered craft sitting on 3 landing legs.  

Nick Pope comments that, with a plain sketch like this, "There's not a lot of middle ground with something like that.  It's not swamp gas.
                                  It's not the planet Venus.
                                  It's not the light from a nearby lighthouse shining through the trees."

I would add:  It's not a weather balloon.  It's not even a Project Mogul balloon, which is a basic weather balloon with neoprene and more complex things hooked onto the balloon.  Nor is Penniston's sketch of a flare, which was used to explain away the steady, nonflaring images of the 1990s "Phoenix lights."
                       It's not a helicopter.
                       It's not an F-16.
You have both of the close witnesses, trained military observers, agreeing it was a triangular craft sitting still on the forest floor next to them for a fair period of time..  Some time back I heard a scientist asked, "What do you think accounts for the UFO reports [in general]?"  "I think it's probably Venus," he opined confidently.

Ah, the lure of the plausible.

Penniston adds that, after about 45 minutes, the craft lifted up through the trees (would Venus do that?) and shot off at unbelievable speed--gone in the "blink of an eye," he said.  This movement was captured by air traffic control radar not as the usual blips of slower craft, but as a streak across the scope.  I don't believe Venus makes either a blip or a streak on radar scopes.

The scientist is voting for Venus.  What about Penniston?  He wrote, "When it took off, I felt alone, knowing now what John [Burroughs] and I knew.  . . . I realized it was  100% certain that we are part of a larger community beyond the confines of our planet."