The Original US UFO Abduction Case: Betty & Barney Hill & The Fairly Nice Aliens

 Short version?  Well, Medium Version.  From John Fuller, 1967, The Interrupted Journey

        I wish I'd made some notes of what page sections were taken from, and I don't have the book here in California.

                     Part One.  This mixed-race middle-aged stable maybe-kind-of-boring New Hampshire couple, driving home in September, 1961 in the wee hours, saw an odd-looking thing in the sky.    Then they saw it again.  It seemed to be tagging along.  

                    Betty believed in UFOs and Barney didn't and she said she thought it was one.  That bothered him and he took the binoculars, got out of the car, and used the glasses, urgently wanting to be able to make it out as the shape of a traditional airplane or helicopter.  For a while that explanation had worked but now the shape got close enough he saw it wasn't either one.  Instead it looked like a large glowing pancake.  It had a line of windows which planes that would fly this low, this close to them, did not.  

                    He felt a pull and started walking toward it in spite of himself and his just-arisen fear.  With the good field glasses he saw several  people at the windows inside the "ship."    He fought to yank himself away from the pull and ran back toward the car, screaming that they were going to be captured.  Not knowing why, he turned off of their regular Route 3 onto a side road.

                    Part Two.    Now they were back on the main road, progressing toward home, and heard a set of small, distinct beeps.  They realized they'd heard them before, from the direction of the trunk.  Their minds were foggy and they couldn't tell where they were on a road they knew well.   Both in a daze, their heads cleared when Betty saw a sign for Concord, New Hampshire.  "That's where we are, Barney."  Before getting home to Portsmouth, they saw the streaks of dawn.  It was a bit after five a.m. when they got to the house.  "We're home later than I thought," Barney noted.  They'd expected to get home by two a.m.  They had breakfast, went to bed and slept into the day.  

                     Later on, they started wondering about the thing in the sky and a friend noted they seemed to have a missing three hours.  Also, neither of them had any memory of making a certain part of the drive, from Indian Head, N. H. to Ashland, about 35 miles.

                    Part Three.   Since it seemed genuinely odd, two years later they went to a  Boston psychiatrist, who hypnotized them.  

                    Not him, not just her, but under hypnosis both wife and husband told of half a dozen short men, two of whom spoke English, stopping them in the road and apparently doing something to "numb" their minds so Barney and Betty did whatever they were told.  They took Betty and Barney into a ship of some unearthly type, where they did medical tests on them.  The crew of the ship seemed to be less than up to speed on earthlings and was, for instance, flabbergasted at Barney's false teeth.  They pulled on Betty's teeth to see if they came out.  They didn't. 

                         After putting their clothes back on and being released back to the car, they were in a good mood because they knew it was over and they seemed unharmed.

              They were fairly nice aliens.  

Betty asked, "Well, Barney, now do you believe in UFOs?"   He noncommitally said, "Betty, don't be ridiculous."  They kind of agreed on the drive home they should forget the whole thing, partly because it was unbelievable and partly because the leader of the men had said they should forget it.  

                        The psychiatrist told them they would be calm and remember whatever didn't disturb them.  With that, after the hypnosis sessions began, they started remembering in the waking state what they had apparently forgotten, but then recalled under hypnosis.  

                        The MD wasn't sure whether Betty had a fantasy that had somehow contaminated her husband.

                        There had been a big wave of UFO sightings and reports in that part of New England in those years, including the incident at Exeter, not many miles away, in which a disk-shaped UFO flew so close to a policeman that he ducked and drew his weapon.  

                        Later when 50 or 150 or 1050 other people (i.e., Travis Walton) across years and continents told a story that shared distinct components of the Hills' abduction, Betty and Barney's story appeared to take on new significance.  There were hints in the Hills' account that the "men" might be doing something to use human DNA or tissue.  Betty recalled them taking samples.

Can Anything But "Aliens" Explain Many Hundreds Of "Impossible" Animal Deaths?

 In 1967 a three-year-old Appaloosa horse named Lady lived on the ranch of Harry King in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, maybe 150 miles south and east of Denver.  This valley was first settled by Mormon pioneers who saw it would be a good place to farm and prosper.  Lady was strong and healthy, since she was only three years old and now fully mature, and of the vigorous Appaloosa line, created by the Nez Perce Indians of Washington, Idaho and Oregon.  Appaloosas provide some of the most enduring and impressive of horses.  On September 8, 1967 Harry King noticed that Lady did not come in as usual near the end of the day.  The next day he found this lovely white female, who weighed about 1000 pounds, sprawled dead on the ground a short distance out in his field.  No bullet holes or typical wounds causing death.  Her flesh was stripped off of her bones "from the neck up."  The remaining exposed skeleton looked gruesome and like it had been cleaned days ago, but Harry knew he had seen her alive 48 hours before.

Around her carcass was a smell like incense.  She lay not far, about a quarter of a mile, from the Kings' house, but they hadn't heard any noise from her being killed.  Nor were there any signs of a struggle or an footprints of who killed her.  Among the odd things was that her tracks did not lead to her still body.  Clear tracks only came within 100 feet of where Lady lay.  There, 100 feet away, she had "jumped around in a circle," apparently before being subdued.   Whoever killed her took her heart, lungs and thyroid, an autopsy showed.  Impossibly, there was no blood spilled at the scene.  An MD who visited the site where she lay was so scared by how completely she had been subdued and how completely her neck and head were stripped and the organs removed that he couldn't eat for a time.  

There were no tracks of a predator in that part of the field--not of coyotes nor wolves, bears, or humans.  There were no vehicle tracks as would have been seen if poachers had decided to down Harry King's beautiful horse and remove her heart and lungs without spilling blood on the ground.  The only explanation of what may have happened based on the physical evidence was that she had been surprised 100 feet away and had jumped around to evade whoever assailed her.  But she had been "nabbed" and then, it would seem, picked up, carried for 100 feet, and then dropped to the place in the field where Harry found her.  

What in the world could have done that to a strong, young, full-sized horse that could go from a dead stop to running 40 miles an hour in a few strides?  It is not hard for a human with a rifle to overpower a horse, but she had not been hit by a bullet.  Yet no human footprints were there.    

This account comes from Linda Mouton Howe's book, An Alien Harvest, pp 1-8.

The only other clue--and it isn't much of a clue--in Lady's vicinity was many reports from neighboring farmers and ranchers of "strange sky lights that summer."  

Thus we have an impossible killing.  Let's go to an impossible escape from killing, reported on pages 30-31 of the same book.  Near Great Falls, Montana, a man reported seeing a hairy, oversized "Bigfoot" six feet away.  He shot it  with his shotgun.  The creature, in the shooter's words, "disappeared in a flash of light."  There was no sign of the Bigfoot left at the scene.  

There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that performed Lady's killing.

There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that allowed the Bigfoot to escape without dying of bullet wounds.     

Many hundreds, probably thousands of other cows, deer, and horses have also died in mysterious, not unlike Lady, in the West and Midwest over several decades.  Most have types of cut-marks not made by any known knives, surgical instruments, or predator teeth.  One investigator quoted in an article in the Sept 30, 1974 edition of Newsweek said, "I've yet to see a coyote who could chew a straight edge," since some of the cut-marks he saw were straight as could be. 

 

Near Council, Idaho in 1975 six cows, the Idaho Statesman reported, were found dead, without any sign of predators.  Near Idaho City in July, 1975, deer were found mysteriously dead.  No bullet holes, no signs of struggle, no predator tracks.  Near Cascade Reservoir three animals were killed without any sign anyone had walked or driven in.  They were not shot.  In Sterling, in northeast Colorado, enough livestock was poached that owners began sitting out all-night vigils, waiting for the poachers to return.  None were found.  One night guards reported they saw "three figures glide over a fence at four a.m.," and they called the sheriff.  No intruders were discovered and there were no tracks in wet mud where the "gliding" ones were spotted.   LMH pp 10, 27-28,

These notes are from Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest, taken January 25, 2022 in the library of the Roswell Alien Museum.  Lou Girodo, Trinidad, Colorado sheriff said to her, "Possibly [this is done by those] from outer space."  Another witness did see a ship in the air over a place where animals were killed, shining lights down.  Tim Good wrote, page xv of Harvest,  "glowing lights [and] beams shining down . . . above pastures was a common theme among people I interviewed."

Isn't this as eerie and unsettling a set of deaths as could be imagined?  These few cases could be multipled by hundreds.  A Montana sheriff who investigated many cases wrote a book named Mystery Stalks The Prairie.

The Original Roswell Alien Guy: Mack Brazel

I had a girlfriend who moved to Utah and wasn't thrilled by the Mormon Church.  "Joseph Smith was certain he saw God in a sacred grove in New York," I said to her.  "Yes," she answered pensively as we stood on a street in Salt Lake City, "and isn't it too bad he didn't keep it to himself?"

I burst out laughing outside that non-Mormon church of hers.  That's a clever or at least original idea, and to me a very entertaining one.  As with Mormonism, the Roswell "alien crash" brouhaha was set off by one previously ordinary man, a ranch foreman out in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico.  Just as my girlfriend wished Joseph Smith had kept his mouth shut, this rancher ended up really wishing he had done the same.  Who was this guy?  I'm convinced his life alone puts the lie to government insistence that no clear evidence of extraterrestrial life exists.

 William "Mack" Brazel was born in 1899 and died in 1963, the same year as General Ramey died.  Ramey was the Texas General who told the press it was just a weather balloon.  A year later Marion Brimberry was an enlisted crewman waiting on the tarmac, one day the next year, to board his plane.  Brigadier General Ramey was standing there with them.  Brimberry overheard an officer ask, "What about it?  What was that stuff?" Ramey answered, "It was the biggest lie I ever had to tell.  [It] was out of this world, son, out of this world."  Witness To Roswell, Thomas Carey & Donald Schmitt (whose name I have been misspelling Schmidt for years!), New Page Books, Pompton Plains, NJ, 2009, p. 214.

    Mack before the crash was a poor rancher, or ranch foreman, since he worked for the H. S. and J.B (Jap) Foster ranch.  The Fosters had large ranches also near Midland and Kent, Texas (Witness, p 75-77).  A great-grandson, Cory Derek , told Schmidt and Carey the Foster brothers also "made a fortune off of oil,"  It appears that many of the mineral rights they held were obtained just after the 1947 incident, and Cory is convinced his relatives were paid off for their silence.  This lends credence to the idea that Mack contacted his bosses before he went to the sheriff in Roswell.  Geraldine Perkins ran a grocery store in Corona and had one of only two telephones in town.  She says Mack used her phone to call his boss, J.B. Foster.  Though the crash was on BLM land, Foster land surrounded it and was of limited use for some time because of military activity.  

    What did Mack tell his superiors?  He believed until he died an alien flying saucer had crashed.  There is indirect evidence he told them that.  Cory Derek once asked his grandpa, "Papa," H. S. Foster's son, but learned nothing.  Cory's uncle was more forthcoming, "Those boys up there told me they were certain without a doubt what they saw was a flying saucer."

    J.B. Foster's daughter, Joann Purdie, believes Brazel contacted her father, saying in a 2008 phone interview he drove up there from Texas, "Whatever he saw or heard for himself, he didn't want to talk about it."   

     "My dad knew it was a flying saucer and never changed his story.  Just as the Army warned and threatened Mack Brazel, they did the same to him."  She encountered Brazel numerous times afterward and he wouldn't talk about it except "He would state that it wasn't any weather balloon." p 77  The second article in the Roswell paper about the incident says "Brazel said he had previously found two weather observation balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these."

    'I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon."

 

  All around him were families who owned their ranches and lived on them, but his bosses lived in Texas.   Brazel had a wife whose name I don't know and a daughter, Bessie Brazel Schreiber, a son Bill and another son Vernon.  He was 47 when his 15 minutes of fame landed on his ranch.

 Role of Timothy "Dee" Proctor

    After the crash he told the newspaper he originally found material in his fields on June 14, not early July.   Schmidt says any responsible rancher would tell us there is not way Mack would have left discard wreakage of balloon material, any type, lying in the field because cattle and sheep, like goats, will eat anything in their path.  Not good for the herd to leave it lying around.  p 46    The Mogul balloons had their own reward notice from NYU.

   Witness p. 34-35

Taken into custody by the Army for 4 or 5 days, 

    denied access to a phone,

    given physical exam

    rigorous questioning

    intimidation  p 41

42 six witnesses saw Brazel be taken under military guard to newspapers and radio stations to retract his claim of finding a flying saucer

      Seen driving a new truck in Roswell not long after

    Moved to another part of NM where he mysteriously had the money to open a business.

    Lived 16 more years

 

    1959   Howard Scoggin of Las Cruces  Witness p 73 (interviewed 1999)  Howard went to a restaurant with a friend, who pointed out Mack alone at another table.  Scoggin walked up and asked him about 1947.  "Without saying a word, the rancher clenched his fist . . . grimaced, and slowly rose out of his chair.  Fearing for his personal safety, the surprised and now wary Scoggins backed away while Brazel slowly stalked past him . . . leaving his food on the table.  "It was like watching one of those werewolf movies when Lon Chaney turns into the hairy monster," recalled Scoggin.

 

 

    Witness, p 74  Radio station Bob Wolf happened to bump into Mack at a festival in Corona "mere months before he died."  While chatting Wolf brought up 1947.  "He looked as though he had seen a ghost," Wolf told researchers Carey and Schmidt in 1992.  "Those people will kill you if I tell you what I know," Brazel burst out.  He "stormed away" and soon left the gathering.  Wolf hadn't seen him for years and didn't see him again.  Note Mack said "kill you," not "kill me," though he was clearly afraid of what they would do to him. Little did he know "those people" wouldn't have very many weeks of opportunity to kill him before life itself did that job via "a massive heart attack" (Witness p 73).

   So here we have the end of the story:  raw fear, aversion to saying anything substantial, abruptly he breaks off the talk when "the subject" comes up.  

List of who says they saw 1947 Roswell alien bodies

    Phillip Corso

    Mack Brazel

    friends of Dee Proctor    p 47

        "Jack:" Sydney Wright, two sons of Thomas Eddington rancher, 

       one of rancher Truman Pierce's daughters

     R Loveridge

     Walter Haut

     Military police Cassidy

     Military police Lida

    Sgt Rowlette

    Harry Telesco

    James Sain       baker's dozen

    Also a female archaeologist who wandered onto the crash site right before military arrived

   Melvin Brown

    George Wilcox sheriff  last half dozen listed on Carey pp 233 - 236

    B Rickett

    Ed Easley

UFO Wide View: What Good Reason To Vaporize That We've Been Stalked By Non-Earth Visitors?

First let's says that maybe the following are only half-good reasons.  Yet if you ask, "Any hints that extraterrestrials have already visited us on Earth?" I'd say the list could run to at least 117 items.  Let's aim for 17 here.

1  There are drawings from many cultures, suggestive of space ships, going back for centuries or millenia.

2  Speaking to the UN, President Reagan said, Isn't an alien force already working among us?  Oh, well, he was speaking figuratively.  Or he meant The Devil.  Yet he could have said "an evil force."

3  Another time he said in a speech, I wonder how it would unite mankind if we learned a common enemy faced us all.  Maybe he meant the flu or cancer?

4  One time that Reagan did not mean the flu or the Devil, he told that, while campaigning for governor of California, he saw a metallic, non-airplane-looking object flying alongside his plane, matching its movement.

5  For years "Area 51," a secret government area in Nevada north of Las Vegas, was just a rumor.  Did it actually exist?  What was there?  Well, in an interview President Obama answered the first question.  He spoke of it and then pointed out it was likely the first time a high official had publicly confirmed Area 51 existed.  He didn't spell out what else he knew about it.

6  The US gov keeps coming quietly to civilian researchers to tell them they have clear extra-terrestrial evidence, and now they want to cooperate with a film or TV show giving this evidence.  In his book Managing Magic, Grant Cameron details how this has happened about ten or twenty times over 50 years.  Each time the government agents back off and don't share their evidence.  In most cases, the insiders say there are those on the inside who want to keep it hid and those who want to tell the public.  "The people have the right to know!"  "The people can't do ---- about this!"  Cameron concludes their intent is to spill the beans, one bean at a time.  One reason they don't care to spill them all at once is that government would have to admit it is not in control.  Another possible reason is that there are numerous non-Earth races in our corner of the Milky Way, and they're not all friendly.  Maybe it's like emailing the ducks that duck hunting season has started.  Let's say "numerous" means 27, just to throw out a number that stimulates my imagination.  Or terrifies me.  Our corner of the galaxy is kind of a big place, eh?

7 Thousands of UFO sightings in about a hundred countries fit into a limited set of patterns.  Common elements are saucer-shaped or cigar-shaped vessels moving at high speed without visible means of propulsion, or triangle-shaped sets of lights in the sky that simply vanish.

8  A classic case of #7 is Socorro, NM policeman Ronnie Zamora seeing a non-airplane-shaped vessel on April 24, 1964.  He, per Wikipedia, which does not coddle UFO reports, "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away—possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Believing a local dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora said he discontinued pursuit [of a speeding car] and investigated the potential explosion. Zamora claimed to have observed a shiny object, "to south about 150 to 200 yards", that he initially believed to be an "overturned white car ... up on radiator or on trunk". The object was "like aluminum—it was whitish against the mesa background, but not chrome", and shaped like the letter O. Zamora claimed to have briefly observed two people in white coveralls beside the object, who he later described as 'normal in shape—but possibly they were small adults or large kids.' Zamora claimed to hear a roar and see a blue and orange flame under the object which then rose and quickly moved away."  When [backup] arrived, Zamora led him to examine some burning brush. When other police officers arrived they noted patches of smoldering grass and brush.^[2]   '

No good explanation of this has been found, though some have blamed New Mexico State students doing a fancy prank.  If they can teach that "blue flame rose and" flew off, stuff, I'll enroll.  Since it was 5:45 pm daytime, nobody's blamed the planet Venus.  I'm quite sure you could write a book, "Cops and UFOs" that would run 100 cases.  Montana sheriffs couple cases alone.  City cop in Exeter, New Hampshire had a flying object he could not identify come down so close to him that he ducked and drew his pistol before it lifted away.

9  Unexplained and unexplainable reports from at least 100 military observers from Chile to Iran to France Vandenberg Air Force Base to nuclear installations in Maine, Montana and North Dakota, to the Navy off the San Diego coast in 2004--all these indicate a recurrent pattern.  Some of the 2004 Navy pilots, led by David Fraver, believed they had chased vessels run by non-human intelligences.

Another time we'll review the "body" story.  

Or the "chopped up cows and horses" story.  And deer and ...

Or the "Skinwalker" story from my home valley, the Uinta Basin in Utah.  Conveniently I moved out of there in 1960.  Then just to make sure, I left again in 2004.  Grant Cameron said, "It's not just that one ranch [near Roosevelt, Utah].  It's the whole area."  That should make any Vernal, Utah native like me sleep more soundly.

Associated Press Reporter Sees "Much Ado About Nothing," Out In Field At Roswell. The General Said It Was Nothing

 The word from military sources on the Roswell is that there wasn't an incident.  Known facts plainly contradict this.

Let's go back.  I did about 20 posts on Roswell a few years ago.  I guess it's an addiction, because last week I drove through that part of New Mexico on a trip to Texas, went to the Roswell Alien Museum, and here I am.

    Stage 1)  First there was an incident. On  June 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field's press officer Walter Haut gave a release saying the base had a flying disk in its possession, and some of the material from it from was being flown to higher headquarters.  This was dictated by Colonel William Blanchard, base commander, who knew what a drastic announcement this was.  Haut signed an affidavit released after his death that Blanchard showed him an egg-shaped craft and two small bodies of a "crew. . . from outer space."

    Stage 2)  Next there wasn't a Roswell incident.  Hours later Blanchard's commander General Ramey held a press conference to explain a mistake had been made and all that landed in the field was a weather balloon.  That warranted being flown off right away to higher headquarters.  Yes.  He showed the press a practice or Rawin target that such a balloon might carry.  The press believed it and so did the world.  Town of Roswell didn't but . . .  

   Stage 3)  Next, once again, there isn't an incident.  When interest got whipped up four decades later, the Air Force did a new investigation and report.  We don't know what landed at Roswell, it said.  The records are gone.  How about that?  The best possibility is a top secret balloon, called Project Mogul, that sensed Soviet nuclear tests.  We don't know; that's our best guess. 

  Yet the Associated Press saw something not explained by either balloon story.  You can call it one thing or three things.  On July 8, 1947  AP New York told its El Paso, Tx photographer, Robin Adair, to hire a plane and go find out what happened with this flying saucer jazz at Roswell.  Adair gets a small plane and flies about 200 miles. Fort Bliss and the White Sands Missle Range in his way, so he loops out around.  His pilot takes him past Roswell heading north, because the word is already out that's where the "Something" landed. I mean the Nothing.

They study the countryside for something unusual:  one candidate.  A lot of troups and military vehicles are clustered and very busy on some open ranch land.  A substantial gathering, BEEG operation.  Couldn't miss it from a small plane.  But no details, as Robin Adair said in a 1993 interview.  "Even then, the place was surrounded by policemen [MPs] and FBI people," but the Army Air had nothing in the air and couldn't keep Adair's plane from flying over.  "We were afraid they would shoot at us.  We got as close as we could and we wanted to get lower, . . .[officers on the ground] just waved [possibly] politely telling us to get the hell away from there." 

   Adair also sees an area that looks scorched.  Funny, but yeh.  And there's a place gouged, "the way it cut in . . . whatever hit the ground wasn't wood or something soft.  It looked like it was metal."  It seemed to have hit and then been able to take flight again.  (p. 59, Witness to Roswell, Carey & Schmitt, 2009, New Page Books)

    These details are nice if, 75 years later, you're tryin' to find out what "went down," even though nothing did.

    Whoa.  In one flyover, Associated Press has seen three things no government explanation will ever account for, a big cleanup operation, scorching, and gauging.  Both basic and specialized Project Mogul balloons can crash-land without gouging, scorching or requiring big gather-up operations.  Intelligence officer Marcel had been out there a day or two before and had a truck big enough to hold balloon debris.  But they couldn't haul out one-tenth of this debris field.

    In the words of the Book of Mormon, I'm now going to say "Thus We See."  Thus we see that in one interview by UFO researchers of one photographer, the gov is lying to cover something up.   In 1947 they tell us one common weather balloon crashed and about 1997 they say they don't know but a Project Mogul balloon is the best guess.   Thus we see--one balloon does not a cleanup operation make.  Thus we see, one even fancy balloon crash does not a scorch nor a gouge visible from a plane make. 

    When you're caught in a lie, unable to account for what people saw happen, your credibility falls.  But not here. Of course they weren't caught in the lie by this piece of evidence until 45 years after the event. I mean, the NON-EVENT.  I keep thinking something happened at Roswell, but the Gov keeps straightening me out. 

    Here, though, my son Eric just doesn't think it likely that we've seen secret glimpses of intelligent life from some other star.  Neither does the science writer for the NY Times.  So they don't care about the details.  Of this Eric would say the reporter "saw something he didn't understand.  That's all we know."   End of discussion.  

    Well, I say we know and understand.  About 15 witnesses saw bodies not belonging to Earth, and 15 more saw a craft not like anything on Earth.

     Ed Sain was a private first class at Roswell.  Major Darden had him and a second airman, Corporal Raymond Van Why, ride out into the country and guard overnight the entrance to the site, the Nothing.  The major's orders were, "Shoot anything [trying to enter]."  Another order came from Colonel Loomis, to "shoot anything that isn't a rabbit." (Witness to Roswell, pp 139-140, interview 2005, p 167).  Good security even for a spy ballooon.  Sain told his son what he was guarding was the strangest thing he'd ever seen.

The Hidden ETs?

It doesn't seem plausible that a situation could come to be where our planet was visited by what UFO nuts insist must be at least 1000 beings from other places without the general human population knowing it?  Is it the gap between them and us?  The Utah crickets (compare them to us) that stole Mormon pioneers's crops didn't know in advance that the gulls (like the ETs) exist or that they're coming, until it's too late for the crickets, whom the gulls gobble up.   Our ability to sense and detect things is improving, yet limited.

Answer 1:   The advanced visitors prefer to sneak around, not telling us, a situation comparable, as Stanton Friedman said, "I don't think of talking to the chipmunks in my backyard."   Vast gulf between him and them.  Like us and the ETs, the chipmunks know he is there, but don't know what he is.  We've seen a thousand glimpses of them, from Phoenix to Iran to Hudson Valley to Socorro to Roswell to 1980 in England to Travis Walton in White Mountains to Nimitz off San Diego in 2004 to the Cheyenne Mt joy-riding incident, but . . . 

Answer 2:  If I as an Earth-imprisoned one had this answer,  would I be Earth-imprisoned?

Answer 3:  Grant Cameron points that, besides the governments not disclosing, the ETs are not disclosing themselves, except to one or a few at a time.

Answer 4:  Government has lots of anti-incentive to tell us about ET.  A) The gov will have to admit out loud what it has long known, that it is not in control.  B) Next admission could be that we don't know all that much about the Others.   C) Or that we do know, but of course we've been lying for a long time.  D) Some of the news is likely to be awful.

Answer 5:  Maybe there aren't visitors.  Maybe the simplest answer is the right one.   

    Yes, maybe.  However I believe Phillip Corso, Jesse Marcel, and Grant Cameron, three pre-eminently respectable, sound persons, and they all say the answer is more complicated than most of the public believes.

      Cameron created a list of some 60 possible reasons why governments may know of alien crashes and not reveal them to the public.  Here is a mix of his thinking and mine.

1-If 1947 Roswell was an alien crash, it came less than 2 years after the end of World War II.   There had to be a leftover wartime mentality, and a civilization vastly superior to ours could have seemed a worse threat than the Nazis.  "We don't know what we have here.  We don't know what they want.  We don't know who they are.  Let's keep it tight until we come up with some half-decent answers for these things."

     Then either they never came up with very good answers, or, even if they did, it stalled its way into a semi-permanent stance based on a mix of caution and fear.

2- The truth may be sobering bad news.  Several species who would be happy to either rid Earth of humans or at least to treat us like cattle are here among us and have been for thousands of years.

2b-  Sobering bad news 2.  Some group too powerful for other non-Earth bunches to stop is already beginning to carry out a plan that will completely hurt the quality of life on Earth for all of us.  "They may know the alien agenda is bad and that they are helpless to stop it."  Managing Magic, Grant Cameron, page 31.

3-   Gov operates in the short term, and alien relations are a long-term issue.

4- Any administration that reveals ET is here and not in our control is very likely to be voted out as soon as the public can do that.  Four years in the US at most.

5- Front page news for months would drastically hamper political energy for policy work/changes that those in power hoped would help the country or the party.

6- There is an "in-group" of 40 or 340 officials who know and who work together to maintain control, and the majority of them have never been convinced telling the world could be handled well and turn out well.

7- Threats to belief systems, whether of physicists, engineers, Protestant preachers, or of we who believe the system is basically good and fairly effective in taking care of us.

8- Weapons race.  If one side discloses, it may inadvertently make public the "20% unknown" that the other side needs to gain ET weapon control and world control

9- Changing from an oil economy to a "zero-point energy economy" would be disruptive to society.  What if only 2% of the largest 10,000 worldwide investors (200) became convinced that selling holdings was the only chance of financial survival?

10- Need to know doesn't exist for the general public.  It doesn't even exist for most of Congress.  Ray S in 1964 said those who know are rationally managing things and know what they need to know, but the public could not do that and doesn't need to know.

11- As to over 7,000 human abductions, some well informed ones agree nothing can be done to stop the abduction. The apparent abductors are not asking permission.  Barney and Betty are a very light case of this.  Revelation of this could undermine the consensus on civil rights, since there's no apparent way to prevent what can reasonably be called involuntary torture.

12- Available hints about alien culture point to a) hive-like social structure  b) no use of money c) Communist-like government  d) no material possessions  e) some indication of "we are all part of the One Whole," which is not a thrilling idea to either capitalism or Christianity.

13- Complete shift in value of Earthly things:  Cameron p. 38 says a close associate of Wilbur Smith, an early researcher, told Grant:  If you find out they are going to announce the truth next week, be sure to sell everything you have this week because after the announcement everything will be worth nothing.

    We see a list like this and tend to think, "The general public will only learn the ET truth via some surprise event, some blow-up of vested interests, some unforeseen and possible unforeseeable change, either sudden or slowly developing to maturity.  A vessel crash in plain sight with immediate news media photography and coverage, too wide to suppress?  Some small nuclear war that shifts the status quo so drastically someone tells the world?  A financial or political crisis like 2008 but that really blows off the roof? 

CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats

Wow (wow is a palindrome), two posts in two days.

Paul Anderson, an MS in science ed, says, "Like most things in molecular biology, Crispr was first identified in E Coli."

That's a nice sentence if either part of it is true.  Leave aside the "most things" generalization since I don't want to spend a month compiling examples that support or refute Paul. Leave aside the other for now, too, since I'm feeling overwhelmed by the idea of writing intelligently about Crispr.  Later I hunted down info about Japanese scientist Ishino who in 1987 sequenced what would later be called Crispr, in E coli. That's just where we wanted him to find it.  He did this as a postdoc at Yale, without giving us much info on either God or man there, since Buckley had already covered that.  "Gut bacteria sequences at Yale."   Catchy.

Crispr is a much easier system for editing genes than the clunky systems we have had.  It takes out a given chunk, not a given clunk, and may replace it with another chunk.  Like the chunk causing sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis or some kind of congenital blindness.  We have had a number of gene changing systems, but they were expensive and not very accurate.  Crispr seems to have dodged around both of those hurdles.  Though how much medical research or treatment can dodge around being expensive remains to be seen.

A palindrome is something that is the same backwards and forwards, like ABBA or Morrom (but not Morrom Church) or 374,473 or rigir or foof.  Taco cat.  Stressed desserts.  The repeating piece of DNA has base pairs that read the same backward and forward  caat g taac

So these sequences are repeated a number of times.  Between them are nonrepeating DNA segments.  This "between" stuff creates the "regularly interspaced."  You put a number of these together and you have a cluster.

Repeated short sequences of nucleotides (protein pieces) interspersed at regular intervals between unique sequences of nucleotides derived from the DNA of pathogens (such as viruses) which had previously infected the bacteria and that functions to protect the bacteria against future infection by the same pathogens

 

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CRISPR or are we already Crisp enough?

1)   

 About 2012, building on closely related discoveries of at least 10 other scientists, Jennifer Doudna, "The Dude," apparently came up with a final piece of knowledge to revolutionize gene manipulation.  Emmanuelle (we've heard that name before at the movies) Charpentier did about the same.  This is my first and could be my last (see Covid 19 post) writing about CRISPR, clustered repeating interspaced sexy pleated rayon.   Sometimes you don't know something, but you can tell what you know or say is wrong.  It's really some other kind of cluster, and I've heard the proper term seven times lately and seen it written out, but my brain is 72 years old and doesn't hold new terms the way it did in 1995.

2)

Crispr--no, I'm not going to capitalize all the letters all the time--is the most effective method so far of editing genes, taking pieces out and putting other pieces in.  Within five years after Doudna/Char published their discoveries, Victoria Gray of Forest, Mississippi, a pleasant black woman with what I'd call a cutesy Southern accent, volunteered for Crispr gene therapy for her sickle cell anemia/disease.  Didn't seem to have much to lose.  Though some other volunteers in the study weren't as lucky, her life has changed so much for the better she can now work at Walmart.  In the age of leaders like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, this is not to be grumbled about.

3)

Sideline about President Trump:  Some New York woman wrote some book and Terry Gros interviewed her.  "Did you ever meet Donald Trump?" asked Gros "and what was your impression of him?"  "I haven't met him, but in the 1980s he was a real estate developer, and he was thought of as a joke.  No one took him seriously.  Even other real estate developers didn't take him seriously.  And this was before he destroyed the Western World." 

I assume they didn't take him seriously somewhat because he said one thing and did another, couldn't be relied on as a stable entity.  We know he had the habit of refusing to pay sub-contractors when he did  develop something.  His word was not good.  That hasn't changed, and it's an issue of character.  A national leader needs to have good character, and not only because the children will imitate his example.  He could accidentally cause a nuclear exchange by getting into a shouting match trading insults with some idiotic leader of North Korea.   I'd have impeached him for increasing the odds of nuclear war and we'd have been safer for it.

4)

There have been many versions of fiddling with the material that seems to make us humans and other living things what we are, physically.  A hundred years ago, a great friend of Paramhansa Yogananda, Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, California, crossbred plants to create new varieties that had more desirable traits.  This had been going on in some form probably for thousands of years, but Burbank found ways to really do it better, was grandly successful.

5)

Before Burbank, an Austrian? priest named Gregor Mendel started figuring out the laws of inheritance.