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.