My seDiments as well.
And, I have no reason to avoid taking it as it was offered.
I suspect that the Aztec 2009 UFO Symposium will have some interesting new stuff.
I hope they get some better presenters. Last I checked, I wasn’t impressed. A bunch of NEW AGE hogwash.
Who knows if it’s ours or ‘theirs.’
My relative asserted that we’d somewhat back-engineered from crashed vehicles and somewhat been TAUGHT by one or more ‘races’ of ET’s to build our own fleet.
And, others have asserted that half the abductions are by ET’s and half by the Oligarchy.
You’re right. In the the late ‘80s/early ‘90s I decided to “get to the bottom” of the whole UFO thing, and conducted a thorough search (as thorough as one could be in those pre-Web days) of all available literature on the UFO phenomenon. My conclusion was that the phenomenon was real — in other words, that it represented credible people seeing actual objects in the sky — in about 10% of the cases.
The stories and evidence behind that 10% were impressive. I found the other 90% of the cases to be a mixture of honest misidentifications, the sermonizing of New Age/pagan/hippie-type religious believers, delusions of drug users and the mentally ill, Nazi power fantasies, Holy Roller visions, pranks, and fiction written by sexual perverts. Surprisingly, I found that among outspoken UFO “believers”, out-and-out frauds and con artists were relatively rare.
Among the hundreds of UFO incidents I researched, three cases stood out from all the others: the McMinville, Oregon case, the Cash-Landrum / FM-1960 case, and of course Roswell. (The unsolved disappearances in the Moncla/Kinross and Frederick Valentich incidents also stand out as genuine UFO-related tragedies, but aircraft crash every day for all kinds of reasons, and for all I know these two incidents may have been the result of regrettable, but prosaic causes.)
Cash-Landrum I found (and find) to be particularly intriguing... but since I’m from Texas, that’s hardly a surprise. It’s a shame that camera phones weren’t around back then. I guess we’ll never know what really happened to those three people on that lonely Texas farm road.