Shedding some light on UFOlogy and UFOs Remember, its only UFOs hose are the sage words I received recently regarding some people who seem to think that UFOs are a life and death struggle. When one looks at UFOs in the grand scheme of things, they lose their signiicance. Recent events in Ja- pan demonstrate what really is impor- tant. The power of the tsunami and the death toll overshadows quibbling over how people interpret various documents and sighting reports. One can only feel intense sorrow for the people of Japan and their great loss. As tragic as this all was, there were indi- viduals that chose to take advantage of the news coverage. They found various bits of debris, clouds, or whatever loat- ing around in the videos and used them to promote UFOs. Yes, they are, by dei- nition, unidentiieds. However, in my opinion, these people used this tragedy to elevate their own personal interests. By linking their sensationalized UFO vid- eos/blogs to the tsunami/earthquake, they made sure that google searches would get them noticed. In UFO news, I noticed that the anniver- sary of the Phoenix lights came and went with barely a whimper. It seems to have been overshadowed by the Japan What was a really slow few months with UFO news, took a big jump in April, when people discovered an old FBI document that supposedly was a Roswell smoking gun. Many already know the story but I wrote about it anyway in the Roswell cor- ner so everyone can follow some good links as well as some of the information I had on the matter. On page 5-6, I discuss the infamous solar eclipse UFOs in 1991. I did this because I have received some recent e-mails de- claring that this was a case of an alien spaceship appearing over a major city. There are two new contributions this month. Martin Kottmeyer has an in- teresting piece about Hollywood and Jean-Michel Abrassart adds his point of view about UFOlogy and folklore. Both are excellent pieces that are well worth Speaking of Jean-Michel, I received an e-mail from Auguste Meessen, who felt that SUNlite was not being truthful. He has posted his rebuttal on his web site (http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/ Ramillies.pdf ). In that rebuttal, he states he was presenting the truth. I have a problem with anybody who like to use the word truth because usually it is that persons own biased interpretation of what they consider the truth. This kind of language is often used by politi- cians and religious leaders. That being said, there have been some questions raised about the content. Roger Paquay responds in this issue and I added a few TABLE OF CONTENTS Hollywoodnt by Martin Kottmeyer....7-9 More UFOs and Nukes nonsense......10-12 More crashed debris claims....................12 Those elusive best evidence UFO photographs and videos...................13-14 Another source of an IFO friend..........16 UFOlogy, a contemporary folklore by Jean-Michel Abrassart........17-18 Battle of LA photo exposed...............19 Answer to The Belgium UFO wave and the photos of Ramillies....20-22 Questions about the Eupen UFO comments about the Eupen explanations I mentioned briely in SUNlite 2-6. Despite Meessens argument against Paquays article, I still consider the imag- es in question show lights that look a lot like airplane lights. I wonder how these photographs would fair if an indepen- dent group of scientists examined them? It is up to Mr. Meessen to provide a con- vincing argument that they could not be from an airplane. I did not see him do this in his article. Abductology continues to revolve around Carol Rainey and Emma Woods. Their in- formation is being ignored or shouted down by defenders of Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs. One has to wonder how long this will continue. Front Cover: A photograph of a waxing crescent moon. The moon can be a source of UFO reports and I mention how on pages 15-16 Left: Do these look familiar? Of course they do. They are the landing lights of an airplane shot using simi- lar camera settings as those used in the Ramilles photograph. It was a 737 aircraft and it was pretty low on approach for landing. In my opinion, this image bears a resemblance to the Ramilles image. Whos blogging The UFO disclosure countdown clock is at 11:30! Supposedly, this means disclo- sure is just around the corner. How long have UFOlogists been promising this great revelation? I seriously doubt that it is going to happen but would UFO pro- ponents be willing to bet money on this occurring by a given date? Rich Phillips then seemed shocked that the Russians would launch two rockets over several days! The irst rocket launch was of a Russian Navigation satellite on February 26th from the Plesetsk Cosmo- drome. The second, supposedly launched on March 1st, appears to have been a video from the Progress M03-M launch in Oc- tober of 2009. Speaking of disclosure, Dr. Clarke reports that the next wave of MOD iles have been released. This is the real dis- closure of UFO documents. The biggest news was the mysterious destruction of iles from DI-55 for the years 1980-82. This is the Rendlesham time period so it im- mediately brought forth calls of conspir- acy from people like John Burroughs. Dr. Clarke added in another posting that the iles were destroyed about the same time as the iles for the years 1967-1979, 1983. It seems the iles were simply destroyed en masse. Dr. Clarke also notes that those iles from the DI-55 that did survive were essentially duplicates of sighting reports made to The UFO desk. This bit of in- formation seems to indicate there really was nothing important in these iles but I doubt it will satisfy conspiracy fanatics. Abduction research continues to suf- fer from the Carol Rainey efect. Her irst video revealed certain aspects of the Linda Cortile case, which caused a ire storm among UFOlogists. Rainey would then add another video documenting the saga of Linda Cortile and some of her out- landish claims. As before, it shows how gullible Budd Hopkins can be concerning what people tell him. The last installment she added had to do with how Budd Hopkins is interpreting the scribblings various abductees have been making for him. Watching Budd Hopkins fumbling through a box of drawings and saying he was trying to stack the deck in order to make them all look the same said a lot. Between Carol Rainey and Emma Woods, abduction research appears to be split- ting UFOlogy the same way the contact- ees did many years ago. Emma Woods became a four-letter word on UFO Up- dates as Errol Bruce-Knapp shut down any conversation on the subject. When Rainey suggested that Budd Hopkins should not be immune to criticism just because he is ill, Bruce-Knapp banned her as well and forbade mentioning her Mrs. Rainey responded at www.paratopia. net (see the Rainey update for 25 April) with some rather interesting comments regarding John Velez (an abductee and personal friend of Bud Hopkins), who ap- pears to have great inluence on the run- ning of UFO updates. After Bruce-Knapp issued his ruling, he allowed Velez to post a rebuttal to Rainey (even though Velez stated it was not a rebuttal). One can only assume this was done so Mr. Velez could have the inal word. Peter Rogerson would counter with his own blog entry at Magonia that took some serious jabs at abductology. He referred to what Hopkins and Jacobs have done is a form of mental rape. Pe- ter stated what seems to be the opinion of quite a few people. Hopkins and Ja- cobs research and the ethics surround- ing it are the real issue. The research has produced nothing other than book sales and notoriety for the researchers. Good- ness knows how many abductees have sufered because of their ham-handed approach towards them. Magonia put up a disclo- sure poll after Kevin Randle had completed his. Kevins original poll did not give the option to his readers if they thought there was anything to disclose at all. Magonia gave a far easier poll, which asked the question in three clear choices (UFO/ET disclo- sure will happen, it will never happen, and there was noth- ing to disclose). Kevin Ran- dle then put up a new poll on his blog but added extra options. I voted on both that there was nothing to disclose because I have yet to see any evidence that there is a cover-up. The Magonia poll resulted in about 60% saying there was nothing to disclose. Randles poll, which had a larger sample (and included more UFO proponents) had about 30% stating that there was nothing to disclose. This prob- ably says something about the readers of these blogs more than anything else. A scientist claimed he found life in a meteorite, which became big news. The news appeared in something called The journal of Cosmology, which, according to the bad astronomer, seems to have problems with checking the accuracy of their articles. Some microphotographs showed objects that looked like microbe fossils to the untrained eye but it seems that just because they look like fossilized microbes does not mean they are. This appears to be a case of a scientist trying to make a splash in the news rather than displaying the proper amount of skepti- cism regarding a claim that is extraordi- NASA is establishing ireball monitor- ing stations in the eastern US. Right now they only have three stations but they hope to expand them. I wonder if they will report any UFOs they record? Hot topics and varied opinions sing I cant drive 55 when warping through the galaxy? Kent Wien wrote a superb article about various sightings made by pilots. However, he was not talking about UFOs. Instead he mentions things like Rocket launches, meteors, aurorae, etc. Some of the video clips are pretty interesting. Kentaro Mori wrote about the lat- est best evidence UFO photograph from Chile. Lucky for us, Leslie Kean and Richard Haines of NARCAP are involved. Reading Haines lengthy report can be mind-numbing as he does measurements without any real conclusions other than suggesting it is worthy of further study. He down plays the fact that the witnesses did not see the UFO during the photogra- phy session and it appeared in only one photograph of the many that were taken. When I irst saw the image, it looked like an odd lens lare. However, Kentaro Mori presents a better potential explanation. The photograph was taken from inside a car and looks like an object inside the car may have been relected of the window. There is even something that looks like stitching visible on the UFO. Astrophysicist Adam Frank made the common observation made by skep- tics of why UFOs need headlights in his Headlights of the gods blog entry. If aliens were trying to be covert in their study of earth, they are doing an awful job of it. Even we have the technology to monitor people without being seen. Sky lanterns were again the source of UFO reports in Chicago. Frank Warren ran the initial report with the video as people being stopped in their tracks and the news reporters being stumped. I am not surprised that these local reporters and observers were stumped but UFOlo- gists should recognize them pretty quick- ly or at least recognize them as a potential sources in these videos. Meanwhile we are still reliving the STAR team members encounter with an alien. Despite having all sorts of electronic equipment and cameras, the UFO made them all inoperable when it appeared. One wonders why such mem- bers are not smart enough to carry a good old fashioned manual SLR and ilm to prevent such electromagnetic efects. When they encountered the alien entity, they were very scientiic in their attempt to communicate. They ran away! Even if the alien ran away as well, why didnt they gather trace evidence? In fact, I dont see this investigator pre- senting one iota of actual evidence that can be veriied. Instead, we are left with having to accept another wild story told by somebody with a preconceived belief that UFOs are probably alien spaceships. Is it any wonder that scientists cant take UFOlogy seriously? John Harney wondered why skeptics arent interested in the Shag Harbour case. It is not a matter of ignoring the case for me but just a matter of only hav- ing so much time in the day. Reality Uncovered had an interesting blog entry regarding John Callahans story about an FAA cover-up over the JAL UFO in 1986. Callahan claims that they were ordered to never mention the meeting occurred. However, Dr. Bruce Maccabee was there and wrote exten- sively about the case. Additionally, CIA analyst Ron Pandoli was also there. Both state that Callahans claims are false and it may have been Maccabee telling Calla- han that he wanted to delay release of in- formation that gave him the impression that there was a cover-up. RU tried to contact Callahan through Leslie Kean but she chose not to forward their informa- tion. Kean was made aware of the issue before her book was released but chose to ignore it and allow only Callahans ver- sion to appear. Is this any surprise? To top things of, we have the Alien body video from Siberia. The story goes that the creators of the body admits it is a fake and it involves a chicken body, some bread, some plasticine, and a little bit of paint. Just another video in a long line of UFO hoaxes. The warming weather brought many northern residents out of their homes in the evening. As a result, there were a se- ries of UFO reports and videos that looked suspiciously like stars scintillating. A person lying a large kite with LEDs produced UFO reports in Vancouver, Washington. Another new source of IFOs. Robert Hastings is still trying to down- play James Carlsons arguments. He refers to Carlson as desperate and then proceeds to basically repeat the same ar- guments over and over again. If he has nothing new to add, what is the point of writing these articles? Richard Lang gave a highly informative description of what had transpired be- tween MUFON and BAASS. It seems that it was a bungled job of inancial account- ing by MUFON. Based on what Lang states, poor oversight by the MUFON board of di- rectors/leadership seems to be the major cause of this catastrophe. Billy Cox seemed to have problems do- ing real research. He could not access the ile DEFE 24/1948/1 from the Na- tional Archives web site. What Cox seems to have problems understanding was this ile was available back in August of 2009 for free but after a certain time period elapsed, the Archives took it of the web with the comment that if you now wanted it, you would have to pay for it. Dr. David Clarke tried to explain it in the comments but Cox, who has problems doing real re- search, wasnt going to listen. But Cox re- ally doesnt have to pay for it. The ile can be found at: http://documents.theblack- vault.com/documents/ufos/UK/defe-24- 1948.pdf. What this demonstrates is that Billy Cox seems to be more interested in hyping this perceived cover-up. If you want to read the old APRO bul- letins, they are available at the Open- minds web site. I am sure some may ind them informative. Most of it is probably old news or out of date. Sammy Hagar claims his mind was in contact with aliens. Apparently, he re- ceived an upload or they chose to down- load his thoughts. I wonder if the aliens Whos blogging UFOs? (Contd) ber 1950 and had diferent details. This is just poor research because the Scully story was the reined version of events. The actual story had been circu- lating since 1949 by Silas Newton. On January 6, dotte Echo of Kansas City carried the story as it was told to them. Other papers picked it up and printed similar versions such as the Atchinson daily globe of Jan- uary 8, 1950 (written by Wes Izzard). The stories described two crashed discs with three-foot aliens inside. All were dead. In addition to the aliens, super strong met- als were described and the idea that ra- dar caused the craft to crash appeared. Two months later, on March 8, there was a lecture by an unknown scientist at the University of Denver. According to the Greeley daily tribune (Greeley, Colo- rado), this unknown scientist reported The Roswell Reinlating MOGUL Nick Redfern recently wrote an article about project MOGUL that tried to show that there was a diference in response with suspected MOGUL debris and what happened at Roswell. However, his argu- ment is false because he bases his argu- ment on the myth that is Roswell and not what is known to have transpired. In the case of the debris found at Danforth, Illinois, an FBI agent went to investigate and obtained the debris. Redfern com- pares this with the overhanded response that the RAAF supposedly employed, where they cordoned of the area and threatened civilians. These are all stories that have never have been proven to be true. There is no contemporary evidence that any cordon was established or that civilians were threatened. All we know is Jesse Marcel Sr. and Sheridan Cavitt went to the ranch and retrieved the de- bris from what they thought was a lying disc. If it werent for the press release, the whole story would have transpired just like the Danforth event. However, in the Roswell case, there is little evidence that anybody involved with the recovery suspected MOGUL was the source of the Smoking gun? Some people have stumbled across an FBI memo dated March 22, 1950 that describes three UFO