Justification

Critical Prose & Poetic Commentary regarding UFOs and their astonishing ancillaries, consciousness & conspiracy, plus a proud sufferer of orthorexia nervosa since 2005!

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Undeclared Air War with ET Ignored by the 2024 UAP/UFO Hearings.




Undeclared Air War with ET Ignored 
by the 2024 UAP/UFO Hearings.
by Alfred Lehmberg


It would seem that the now very familiar pioneer UFO researcher Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC, retired... had some clever insight into the "Flatwoods Monster" incident of September 12, 1952. Mr. Keyhoe researched the Flatwoods incident in the beginning and at the start, spoke to an informed Air Force official at the Pentagon about the case, and then wrote about it in his 1953 book titled, "Flying Saucers from Outer Space." This book can be found on the internet.

For several decades, this classic UFO incident remained a cold case. This was despite all of the information that was written and documented about it at the time. This is a case all sharp-cornered and unsettling even as it has been well fleshed out by Feschino, so a certain trepidation is understood. ...Air war with UFOs in 1952... preposterous?

Forty years after Keyhoe's initial treatment, Frank Feschino, Jr. picked up this case where Keyhoe had left off and began his own investigation into this "Flatwoods Monster" UFO incident of lore and legend. During Feschino's no-nonsense and very forensic investigation, he discovered this incident involved a damaged UFO and its alien occupant crash-landing on a hilltop in Flatwoods, West Virginia, as we know. 

Shortly after, the constant reader will recall, a group of local townspeople encountered the UFO's terrifying occupant. This would be the 12-foot-tall armor-clad being that had abandoned its downed craft. 

This horrific UFO incident quickly made headlines across the globe, was broadcast across America by radio, and was also featured one week later on a live NBC TV program, “We The People.” Yet, although history had heavily documented this incident in the media and press, there was a predictable downside to the story. 

See, the "Flatwoods Monster" story was extensively covered up by the United States government. No surprises there. There is evidence of that. As a result, the story had become convoluted, grossly inaccurate, and was eventually written off as a silly West Virginia folklore tale.

Regardless of the concealment, Feschino's decades-long investigation into this affair, the longest since its occurrence in 1952, has uncovered some truth behind this seeming alien close encounter incident! Feschino would come to reveal what may have actually happened! 

See, Feschino's investigation into this case has exposed an unsurprising yet still massive government cover-up of the twitchiest highly strange shiznit as can be imagined! Revealed, reader, the well-documented truth that an extraterrestrial did indeed crash-land in its damaged craft that night in Flatwoods? 

Moreover, Feschino discovered there were actually 21-hours of sustained UFO sightings across the United States on September 12, 1952 in a short amount of time as the reader can review in the link! His research disclosed there were actually 3 damaged UFOs passing over the east coast of the mid-Atlantic United States in flames... or obvious distress! These all headed off on eastern trajectories from some point off the east coast, one after another, around 7:00 pm EST. This is all documented, reader!

The first damaged object headed on a southeast trajectory towards Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and landed. Shortly after, the second damaged UFO flew on a northeast trajectory and proceeded towards Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. It then redirected away from the base and landed! It then took off again and made several repeated crash landings throughout West Virginia. The third damaged object passed low over Washington, DC, and then continued west! It then landed in Flatwoods, West Virginia about 25 minutes later! Shortly after, the occupant exited its craft and encountered a group of Flatwoods civilians. All this is documented. That's the history!

The reader is reminded that these UFO crash events actually occurred about six weeks after the USAF revealed "Shoot Down" orders against flying saucers! These presidential SHOOT DOWN ORDERS against UFOs were revealed by the USAF on July 28, 1952 when spokesman Moncel Monts stated fighter jet pilots had orders to, "SHOOT THEM DOWN IF YOU CAN'T TALK THEM DOWN." ...Talk them down?! That's lawyer-speak to appear reasonable and cogent; we WANTED one of those damned things!!! 

Did we get one?

As a result of the massive amount of material Feschino has recovered, uncovered, and otherwise revealed during his investigation, he is recognized in the UFO community as being the one true authority of this particular close encounter case. He can substantiate these assertions.

Feschino's "Updated and Revised Edition" book, "The Braxton County Monster—The Cover-Up of The Flatwoods Monster Revealed," is the definitive book written about the "Flatwoods Monster" incident. There are no substitutions.

Fast forward, now, seventy-two years into the future since this singular incident occurred! We regard the very recent November 13, 2024 House Oversight Committee hearing, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth!" Pause for squirty giggles! 

Yes! Laugh out loud! The committee would be spearheaded by the worst persons in Congress, all who neglected to utter one single word about this well-known and key UFO close encounter case... and our air war with ET

Even though Frank Feschino, Jr. is recognized by his colleagues as the authority on this very credible close encounter case, why is the "Flatwoods Monster" incident being glaringly ignored today?! "Ignored" is kind. It is relieved even of the smallest cogent pushback or contrary debate! ...Like the case was just too uncomfortable to consider

...We did mention the "sharp corners" and aggregate "unsettlingness" of the affair. This is no excuse for cowardice.

Remains, a Donald Keyhoe statement, made in his 1953 book, may seem to offer one explanation for why the Flatwoods case is being ignored and overlooked today. He had stated authoritatively, "When the time came to admit that the saucers were real, the slightest official hint of possible menace would be quickly remembered. From that angle, the Sutton [Flatwoods Monster] story was dangerous with its picture of a fearsome creature intelligent enough to build and control spaceships."

...But let's also take a moment to remember that these UFOs were fired upon first, and did not wage the war, attacked, that we human beings would surely have waged in their place. Too, persons encountering them were not harmed, even if they were terrified. It could be argued that ET was the better example of "being" in the fearsome exchange, n'est ce pas?

True... men and equipment were lost in the struggle... but was that a result of UFOs acting on our armed forces, or was it more a case of our armed forces acting on UFOs and paying the price of their willful effrontery, an effrontery pointed out to them by the on-site authoritative who advised for the record, and I paraphrase... if they can get here they can likely kick our ass! "WE" may never know... but someone knows. ...Someone knows!

Those in Congress could be asking the better questions about UFOs. The proper questions are always going to be more important than a question's mere answers. Answers are meaningless without the proper question provoking them, follow? The PROPER question, though heavens fall. It's as I've written for many years now... 

UFOs are, by definition, change, and point to realities of much more breadth and scope is the intuition—potential and expansiveness. At the same time it gets no easier to maintain a façade of normalcy for the cowardly denial of the intellectually profane niggardly.

Accordingly, it becomes increasingly more difficult to tolerate these garden-variety "noisome negativists," invalidly hubristic piss-wits who laugh up damp sleeves at that which they have no capacity to understand, no aptitude to accept, no ability to incorporate, and no skill to recognize! Consequently, I seek my own questions though the answers offend me, shock me, or shame me. 

In the first place it's not always offense, shock, and shame. In the second, there is, many times, joy beyond the shame, satisfaction beyond the shock, and fellowship, good readers, beyond the offense.


This Congress is only offensive... there is no upside, and it's only ever interested in forgettable distraction, deflection, and disruption... They are, and decidedly, NOT for the ascension, elevation, enlightenment, and general improvement for an aggregate humanity... especially now. This is demonstrated daily and not from both sides. Read on.  

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Schtuppings of Justification




Scientists are too obtrusive!
lawyers are corrupt (abusive)! 
Then, cops (too busy) arm themselves 
to keep an *order* rich men sell... 
Tesla's papers languish, hidden
History's contrivednot kidding*—
startling questions go unanswered 
by those persons faking answers!
.
...Autonomy—so near at hand—
suggesting what it always had: 
that we are best when on our feet; 
to struggle is our meal—our feast
...Though, we would have rewards for "work," 
to keep our "edge" alive—alert! 
We'd have ourselves some satisfaction
without division or detraction!
.
We could change our attitude
—cop to truth? Be—so—imbued!  
Avoid denial so mal-serving.  
Be forthcoming!  Be deserving!
.
...Like, make it not a "petty" crime 
to fake a "sighting," anytime!
.
It's the SAME as "terror," clear? 
Yelling FIRE in a theater! 
It's faithless, mad—a mal-occurrence—
to willfully create disturbance!
.  
We're not served for crying wolf 
where truthlessness becomes "enough"... 
becomes enough to quell the curious 
and make the subject less than serious.  
Folks stop looking when betrayed; 
they're embarrassed when they're played!
.
See? It lacks no end, this disrespect
It's rudeness at impertinent best! 
It's spit so nasty in your eye 
that scales form from lying slime! 
It's "falseness" in a "presentation"—
willful (thoughtful!) misdirection
It supports no elevation
it provides but defamation!
.
See? Burned and shy 
one WILL stop looking, 
and one not looking... 
begs their schtupping
.
Still, you'd state that I'M the problem, 
and say it smoothly, charming—solemn. 
I observe irresolution... 
so I provide "my own" confusion?  
I don't think so; that's dissembling. 
That's the dodge that you're assembling.  
You distort intelligence.  
You're your own irrelevance.  
Ears to hear and eyes to see 
provides the proof I need, for free!
.
...Slander's wage for asking why? 
Consider gifts from endless skies... 
raining strangeness, ceaselessly, 
in ways to shake your fragile tree 
(and that's the reason why you're clueless, 
sans "with-it-ness bereft of "coolness"...).
.
It's true I'm asking twitchy questions, 
but you dismiss the mere SUGGESTION: 
that "worshiped" science is insufficient
incomplete, and so? Deficient!
.
...And this is said in plain cognition 
of its *gifts* (...its imposition!), 
'cause it's not the total picture; 
it won't save us; fill our pitcher! 
It won't give us ALL the answers. 
All by itself? It won't cure "cancer"! 
In fact, it "causes" more than "cures," 
its vectors far from gracebe sure...**

.
Hey! How did Homer (Virgil?) know—
that Mars had moons so long ago? 
How would "terror" and a "beating"
...name these moons so quick and fleeting? 
Where can come that strange idea 
he couldn't "see"... or "see," conceive of? 
How'd he KNOW, or WHO would tell him? 
Where does "weird knowledge" ...even come from?
.
This was what their "legends" said? 
This was myth (?), and fiction wed? 
This was "odd coincidence"? 
This "was nothing"of "no significance"?
.
You whistle past a graveyard, friend! 
Admit the fear you must transcend!
Confining dogmas are a death knell!
Do the math! Too? Be not fretful!
.
"Brookings" portends mass hysterics
and purports this like it's them hysteric! 
Folks mistaken, mad, misleading, 
misinformed; some clearly weeping... 
moans and gnashing teeth, foursquare... 
Their ignorance assails them ... THERE!  
"Human scourge with tooth and claw, 
MAGA, and the death of law"! 
"Society must then implode," 
if they come clean to self-disclose?
.
That's such crap—convenient swill
to keep the *catbirds* seated well! 
We're a "fodder" fueling dreams 
of psychopathic "kings" and "queens," 
Hangers-on, facilitators, 
soulless yes-men—abominators!
.
We're an "entree," food, of course, 
for such as... ...sans compassion's force. 
See? Disrespect is tendered us 
by leadership betraying trust!
.
Jerked back and forth? Incredulity
weighed unfairly (institutionally!), 
folks wallow in a murky mire 
of "truthiness" and "crap conspired." 
This avoids the real deal
...So, who is served when shit gets "real"?
.
Buried "heads" in shifting "sands" 
just makes it harderunderstand?
.
You're the problem! You've no solution? 
You own convenient institutions! 
Cops and lawyers (strange collusion!), 
and Doctors dance for profit—fusion! 
Gub'mint's owned by non-elected 
masters of inspired "neglecting"...
.
Everywhere you look there's lying! 
Christians spinning webs decrying... 
sins unseen if of their own, 
but quick for others with their stones!
.
Little girls are starved to lie 
with make-up on and implants plied. 
The Gub-mint's errant declaration, 
the Church's crass prevarication, 
plus corporate lapdog's whorish *news* 
will sell the "soap"... but spoil the "stew"!
.
Doctors cheat on Medicare, 
and lawyers trump up pardons there
Cops can torture out confessions, 
opportunists squeeze concessions, 
and futile schools still beat their kids; 
we even KNOW they're invalids! 
Lying is our way of life. 
We do it first! We ARE our strife!
.
Best we cop and get right to it. 
I won't hear excuses—screw it!
We betray our own salvation
While superstitions fake foundation!
.
Your denial stops progression; 
I can't believe in your obsession 
that we crown a grand creation 
built by God—we're infestation
...That's what we are: mere parasites 
destroying hosts in sentient spite!
.
We're not alone and we should cop. 
We're being watched, and we should stop!
.
"Cop to what," you smirk and laugh. 
Why, cop to "time," you f'n jackass. 
Cop to "space," its plumb-less reaches! 
Cop to "matter"! "Mind" beseeches!
.
...And while some sneer their glad derision? 
Paradigms are in collision!  
Eons crack and break apart 
providing us a "reset's" start.  
We're absolved imagined crimes 
of those denying us our time.  
We're released to our potential 
in a brand new existential.  
We enjoin the stars believing 
they're the things so worth achieving, 
so we despair that we're kept "dumb," 
dense and dim... or dull and numb. 
.

lehmberg2002@gmail.com
http://www.alienview.net/






More than paradigms it would so appear. The speed of light... changes?

    Is it true that since 1908 that light has never... no-not-one-time EVER... been measured at a consistent speed otherwise proclaimed to be an unwavering 299,792,458 meters per second... and that this august if arbitrary value was "decided upon" in Geneva in 1975 when all the concerned physics wizards conferencing in fretful covens at an international physical congress... aired their unsettled concerns? The speed of light... changes? That would knot the shorts all curly!

    Science by fiat? Old alchemy never did exactly that, I suspect. Why is not the heart of science investigated by that same science? Arbitrary conclusions (!) from Physics physicists, the model institutionalizers of prediction, measure, and number? Astonishing and unsettling.

    Why unsettling?

    Einstein's knees turn to rubber at an "inconstant" speed of light. A scientist's surety index goes down and his idiosyncratic stock deflates. He loses a previously held tumescence, frankly. He runs out of academic Enzyte. [TM] He begins to suspect that he has everything... entirely wrong. The hardest of our hard sciences, the oldest too... suddenly has a soft center?  That will cause some shrinkage, eh?

    More bad news... plus a flustered and embarrassed gush by a heavily lettered intelligentsia to use phrases like "the limits of instrumentality" and "statistical significance," to explain this seeming human inability to pin the speed of light down. And maybe limited instruments would explain this lack of accuracy... but that subsequent measurements over time have tended to faster and faster top speeds? Uh-oh.

    See?  An evolving instrumentation would provide assessments clustering around a singular value justifying a mean of 3 hundred million meters a second, but an oddly steady acceleration... whoa Nelly... THAT horse of a different color!

    Sincerely, if true?  Well, that's a whole other churnin' urn o' burnin' metaphysical monkeys, eh?  Measured now, is light faster still?

    Is it true? Is light, measured for speed, tending towards acceleration as time goes on? Is it becoming faster?

    Funny, I read where you can't even get "research money" to measure "light's speed," anymore. One wonders what the "the limits of instrumentality" and "statistical significance," would be indicating presently?  Another measured acceleration?

    There's more! Is it true that the melting points of different compounds (chromium dioxide for example) have been increasing more than merely measurably in a fashion similar to light, already alluded to, over the last hundred years... and that these rate increases show a curve of suggestively slight accelerations, over time... thus far? Gulp!

    Too, didn't I just recently hear where time itself was speeding up?

    The reader might begin to see what I mean about questions sometimes being more significantly informative than answers.

    Restore John Ford!



    *...snatch this while it is available!  The story of a teacher who wanted to find out why kids "hate" history!
    ** Terence McKenna paraphrase.


    Saturday, October 19, 2024

    Monster, Machine... or an Owl ?



    (can anyone provide attribution for this etching
    allegedly from the SIM article referenced)


    Was it a Monster-Owl... or a Machine?
    by Alfred Lehmberg


    Joe Nickell of the former partisan paranormal investigation group CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), now CSI (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry), wrote what has passed for a "Flatwoods Monster" article, lo these many years, in the Nov/Dec. 2000 issue of the Skeptical Enquirer magazine. Nickell, an English teacher who once tipped Flatwoods waitresses with actual wooden nickels, claimed that the “monster” these witnesses had seen and reported under penalty of perjury... was actually a "barn owl." The waitresses, by report, were not amused.

    Later on, noxious gasses reported produced by the monster would be excused as "Indian-summer" flower fumes or hallucinatory volcanic gasses... all of these things happening neither before nor since this singular night... no, and decidedly, no roc-sized owls, smelly flowers, or volcanic gasses... Besides! Generations of these people knew what a barn owl in a tree looked like... and their owls never lit up on their own, silently hovered around, or gave off toxic gasses.

    "Owl" is the labored conclusion that this ostensible skeptic writer Nickell claimed in his article titled, "The Flatwoods UFO Monster." He wrote, "...And so a spooked barn owl in turn spooked the interlopers and a monster was born." Easy if unsupported dismissal of excitable kids and a hillbilly parent so effortlessly done, case closed, and excelsior! Onward to the next "skeptibunkery"! You can bet Dr. (immaterial) Nickell was just touching himself at his glibness.

    In hubris-larded summation he would further state, "We may conclude (adapting an old adage) that if it looked like a barn owl, acted like a barn owl, and hissed, then it was most likely a barn owl." We might also conclude that what "looks, acts, and hisses" like an uninformed partisan hack may be as likely to be that hack. We digress.

    Now follow this closely reader. It seems that Joe Nickell's skeptical "owl" conclusion was by NO means an original idea, at all. 

    See, he was merely echoing the ludicrous conclusion offered by the USAF! They had concluded this when they attempted THEIR cover-up of the incident some 47 years earlier! 

    Observe that in January of 1953, pioneer UFO researcher Major Donald Keyhoe spoke to USAF Senior Public Liaison, Albert Chop about the Flatwoods case. In Keyhoe's book, "Flying Saucers From Outer Space." Chop explained the following to Keyhoe, "The group did see two glowing eyes, probably those of a large owl perched on a limb. Underbrush below may have given the impression of a giant figure, and in their excitement they may have imagined the rest." Ok... though... how original does an English teacher have to be? ...And at least he reads... even as he doesn't give attribution.

    Besides, if you look closer at Nickell's mawkish wording you will see that his "barn owl" conclusion was only speculative! He wrote, "it was most likely a barn owl.

    This is the same speculative "owl" conclusion as was made by Chop earlier in 1953 when he said the "glowing eyes" were "probably those of a large owl." Then Chop uses the speculative words, "may have given" and "they may have" in his conclusion about the "giant figure." Lots of room for license. 

    Chop is quoted, "Underbrush below may have given the impression of a giant figure, and in their excitement they may have imagined the rest." Reexamine the speculative words used by these two men, "MOST LIKELY" and "PROBABLY" and "MAY HAVE GIVEN" in addition to, "MAY HAVE." Where would stuff like these qualifiers come from? Then, the following information clears some things up! 

    Edward J. Ruppelt, the Chief of Project Blue Book in 1952, spoke to Major Keyhoe about UFO cover stories. Keyhoe covered all this in his book, "Aliens From Space." 

    Ruppelt told Keyhoe, and get this... "We're ordered to hide sightings when possible, but if a strong report does get out, we have to publish a fast explanation—make up something to kill the report in a hurry. We must also ridicule the witness, especially if we can't figure a plausible answer." Captain Ruppelt's words here seem to have been the template for the Flatwoods case, especially when we remember the complicity of the local police to facilitate this "tamp-down" and about which we had written about earlier. 

    What does the reader believe? Was the "Flatwoods Monster" an "owl," or was it an otherworldly mechanical space suit that resembled a hovercraft? Please leave your thoughts as they pertain to this ET air war, in the comments below.

    Friday, October 11, 2024

    Don't...




    Please forgive this small presumption.
    It's something more than mere assumption.
    Remains I've drawn a sword I'll use.
    Will I be "kind"? Be disabused.
    .
    I'm "nasty" with those too contentious, 
    those so gleefully pretentious—
    those professing "dead-lock nuts..." 
    Their "truths," it's found, are "ifs and buts"! 
    .
    Reality's detracted from, 
    and from what's "truthful," these will run
    a quick dismissal is their creed
    When that is lost? They cease to be!
    .
    Existing of conflated coattails, 
    blown around by moneyed main-sails, 
    these dissolve or melt away 
    to prices "fixed" ...that we must pay
    These can't, per se, debate their *critics*, 
    their "grinding axes" lack *specifics*, 
    and they have bastardized what's *correct*—
    while prosecuting disrespect.
    .
    These have a special axe to grind 
    to cushion senses they contrive 
    to justify unbrave contentions. 
    See? They won't *see*... They lack dimension!
    .
    Yes!
    .
    ...But our contentious skeptibunkies, 
    braying, scorning—mocking flunkies... 
    These will hoot, pronounce soft *phacts*, 
    and from the truth, you bet, detract. 
    All, I think, to keep you working, 
    making babies, crying—hurting... 
    ...Still, they're REAL and would upset 
    the "apple cart" ill *owned*, as yet.
    .
    Yes, we'd have the truth; condone it! 
    We've paid for it in blood. We own it!  
    Were not served, in fact ill-served, 
    to be denied the truths observed.  
    Had we some "truth," we'd, then, build true... 
    avoid those "pitfalls" as construed, 
    avoid perhaps, the forecast "planned..."  
    ...we'd have FOUNDATION, understand?!
    .
    Sceptic! Don't pretend your faux concern; 
    you will come to live and learn—
    at issue is the profiteering 
    you enjoy while proudly sneering!
    .
    Don't think that you provide a service
    Don't think that you provide for "calm"—be nervous! 
    Don't pretend that fear's deterred 
    in blandishments you purrabsurd!
    .
    Don't presume that you're correct—
    you've been remiss you would detect
    or, kept your courage as a "guide," 
    made progress, mattered... ...even tried!
    .
    Don't profess the "all-dodge rational"!
    Don't contend that you're "professional." 
    Do not think your *earned* degrees 
    have brought you off your "callused knees"! 
    Don't presume to "know the truth" 
    and "sneer" or "gloat—pretend "aloof"!
    .
    Too, don't you dare to sully Occam!  
    Your artless pretense: courage "run from"!  
    You distort beyond the frame 
    a meaning found that Occam's named, 
    distorted to the nth degree: 
    the simplest answer's "best," you see?
    .
    "Don't complicate hypothesis 
    without some "need" is confidence, 
    but it remains that "When in need," 
    you complicate that thing, you see?  
    "Occam" doesn't rule that out!  
    That's what "Occam's" all about!
    .
    So, one refutes your bland pronouncements; 
    one subsumes your trite announcements. 
    You've betrayed our education—
    warmed yourself in its ablation
    You don't rate a second look. 
    Your fire is "out," and you can't "cook"!
    .
    Look around, you're plainly comic! 
    See beyond the pale—it's cosmic! 
    Consider all the games you play 
    to keep the "real deal" at bay!  
    Concrescence looms; you're not absolved.  
    This thing's the THING; we're ALL involved!
    .
    Admit that time and space are one, 
    and both are "endless" (matchless!) *fun*. 
    Admit it's we who happened here...
    and "there" if near to what you fear
    Space enough for us to *happen*—
    good or bad, past understandin'...
    .
    What can happen, happens plainly
    and cannot happen once, insanely
    What occurs, occurs again!  
    "Formality's achieved" my friend! 
    .
    We are not alone, in truth! 
    To think we are? Be disabused!  
    If you believe that we're "alone"? 
    Then, you're a dunce, not Sherlock Holmes.  
    I would have it more "forthcoming"—
    so we could "plan," get "well," or something...
    .
     ...Dismiss this as a nonplussed screed? 
    Still and all it's what you need—
    CSIcop's dull; sans circumspections. 
    They're stopped at lightless intersections!
    .
    In the years preceding Christ, 
    a couple past a thousand (thrice?), 
    mere *humans* wrote of "asteroid belts... 
    ...'twixt Mars and Jupiter," Sitchin tells! 
    Still, and in this long-gone time, 
    they knew the colors, mass—made rhyme 
    of Neptune and his twin Uranus... 
    ...how they knew? We can't explain it...
    .
    The Dogon knew a star they worshiped, 
    Sirius, though twins in worship—
    two dogs to follow at the heel 
    of he who fought the "bull surreal". 
    ...We couldn't notice "double stars," 
    given they're away too far
    The Dogon knew that there were two
    Now... how in hell'd they know that's true?
    .
    ...The Sumer knew of Earth's precession! 
    This fuels our justified obsession 
    with enigma they don't cop to, 
    investigate, or drop a nod to! 
    See? ...Some ten-thousand years ago! 
    How'd they know that that was so?
    .
    Embrace denial if it's there; 
    betray our ethics; gape and stare! 
    ...But, don't pretend there's nothing to it! 
    Mere science, by itself, can't do it!
    .
    What we've seen defines new pages; 
    too, we've perceived forbidden ages!  
    So, we can see the moving finger! 
    Writing on the wall it lingers, 
    pointing out the enigmatic 
    for the not-so-autocratic. 
    It's bigger than you're giving credit. 
    ...This bothers one... where one could let it...
    .
    Should it scare you—just a might—
    ...promote some sight with greater light; 
    make you see the bigger picture—
    grasp that time and space are richer... 
    for the efforts you have made 
    in work you've DONE, for what you've PAID!  
    You deserve to know some truth, 
    al dente, and so to the tooth, 
    which elevates the spirit's progress 
    on a path providing noblesse!
    .
    Yeah... I know as light comes up... 
    ...the more perceived the shadows got
    But that's the future as ordained. 
    We see the shadows! That's our gain! 
    Darkness threatened, grasped and scratched, 
    but from those shadows truth is snatched! 
    Of course more darkness is perceived: 
    the more the light comes up! Concede!
    .
    But we move forward and progress... 
    or die by inches, I protest!
    .
    You deserve a clearer vision. 
    You're betrayed!  They lack concision
    Your potential's sapped and weakened... 
    by those who dare to mock or cheapen... 
    that which makes us what we are
    self-aware... and made from stars!
    .


    lehmberg2002@gmail.com
    www.AlienView.net



    ...Sentient and Self-aware Star-Stuff... is the suspicion.

    First, we were the "Jewel in God's crown" on a sol-system-centered if imperfect worldstill favored by some—at the core of a series of crystal spheres suggested by the glad misogynist Aristotle.  ...Cutting edge at the time! Everything was neatly tied.

    Grudgingly, as time very tediously wound itself out in an all but wholly unnoticed acceleration... human entelechy is shunted to a series of planets and bolides third from a massive "coal burning" sun-furnace... the center of things, still!  Indeed, what could burn hotter than coal, it was thought!?

    Stunningly, the passage of time reveals the farther-removed suggestion that Sol is a star in a galaxy of stars! The galaxy is finally perceived as a kind of star itself... in an all but infinity of other galaxies! 

    Humility demands that Centering ourselves in all of this seems, at best, just ludicrous—a pompous hubris unearned!  Still, one wonders how we're still not getting it, you know?  We've always had it so wrong. Smart money says we have it wrong, still.

    Recently we *discover* that we are not really even inhabitants of the Milky Way Galaxy, at all... but of some small errant dwarf galaxy idly inhaled by the Milky Way.  See what I mean?

    Forgetting this awesome similarity across scale of an evolving sense of being without ... location... one must wonder where we are, really, given how unlikely it is that one can be two places at once as their hubris would dictate and we have learned... when one's not even THERE, at all?

    ...Doubt what is doubtable. Believe what is believable. Think what you will.  It's a start.


    Restore John Ford!




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    Wednesday, September 25, 2024

    The "Monster" was a "Machine"! Feschino was Right.

    Frank C. Feschino, Jr. Flatwoods Researcher and Author



    The "Monster" was a "Machine" 
    and Feschino was Right.
    by Alfred Lehmberg 



    For decades now, Flatwoods author Frank Feschino has been criticized, sans all support or justification, for changing the very appearance of the original 1952 Flatwoods Monster! This was the "skirt-wearing" and "claw-waving" TV show drawing forever "popular" on the internet. The upshot is that it was HE who had no justification for "turning it into" the very historically described, and correctmetallic figure. These fatuous criticisms of Feschino's work are but silly and untethered risibles of the ludicrously uninformed. Posted.

    Original, and inaccurate
    "We The People." rendering

    So? Here you go "armchair" investigators, "clueless" critics, and "noisome" naysayers! Let's have some real history about the so-called "monster," a history we only know as a resultsolely the reader is reminded, of illustrator/researcher Frank Feschino's deep-drill due diligence investigations... and his dogged on-site inquiry! Resolved, readers! We "have the meat," the receipts, and some effusive citations

    Posted! Feschino's correct illustrations are only based on the Flatwoods records that were largely lost, and so ignored, over hoary time! Feschino, one discovers, spent the aforementioned decades we've alluded to investigating this incident, working with the actual eyewitnesses, and he composed drawings and paintings with these eyewitnesses—forensically aspiring to the truth of the matter! That was his training! Indubitably, he has become THE authority and subject matter expert on this close encounter case! 

    The reader will be reminded that, in reality, this incident involved a huge entity reported as encountering a group of hapless civilians after its damaged craft went down in Flatwoods on September 12, 1952. We also remind the reader that the craft damage was ostensibly a result of presidential orders to shoot UFOs down, that whole summer!

    The constant reader will recall that, back in that September 12 of 1952, A. Lee Stewart, Jr. was the co-owner, publisher, and lead reporter of the "Braxton County Democrat," a newspaper in Sutton, West Virginia. On the night when the "Flatwoods Monster" incident occurred, eyewitness Mrs. May contacted police authorities about her encounter, but they were unable to respond to her call for assistance! Strange flying things (UFOs!) had all the area's cops out of the office and on the road doing... different things!

    A videotaped A. Lee Stewart,
    the first official on the scene at Flatwoods.
    Feschino has video of MANY of the principles!

    As a result, Mr. Stewart, a photojournalist who worked with the police on various cases, was sent out on their behalf! This was a regular occurrence. A community pillar, Stewart was always on call for this type of civic duty. 

    On that night, Stewart was actually the first person of authority to reach the accosted May home! This was just after the encounter happened! He arrived to pandemonium! Indeed, during an interview with Feschino he stated, "It was sheer turmoil"!

    Upon his arrival, Stewart would even lead an armed posse onto the Fisher Farm where the incident occurred! He coaxed the two oldest and visibly shaken boys onto the farm to the site of their encounter. One of the boys, whimpering like a pup, had to have Stewart's hand on his neck to encourage him along! The boys were scared truly spitless! 

    Stewart would analyze the encounter site area in a newsman investigative mode. He told Frank, "We just spotlighted around because not one of us was inclined to hunt for something we didn't know what it was in the dark. We decided we would go back to the Mays. We were on the mountain probably thirty to forty minutes."

    Additionally, Stewart was also the first person to interview all of the eyewitnesses, still shaken and highly upset, that weekend! He also had the separately interrogated boys draw pictures of the figure they saw.



    Stewart was almost abusive in his interrogation of the boys. He wanted early confirmation if the affair was an unclever ruse, just to quell any unnecessary hubbub. The boys and adult witnesses; however, held firm. Indeed, Stewart was unsettled by how shocked and terrified they all were. In closing, there was no quelling of the hubbub. That hubbub would only be exacerbated.

    Stewart would also break the "monster" story to "The Charleston Gazette" newspaper in an article dated September 14, 1952, "Did It Ride Meteor?—Boys Spot Appalling Creature Near Flatwoods, Link It To Passage of Fiery Object in Skies." Mr. Stewart was also credited with the story and a byline, "Special to the Gazette." In this article, the "Flatwoods Monster" was actually referred to as an "appalling creature," as "this thing, and as "the object."

    It gets better! In a "Monday Morning, September 15, 1952" follow-up article, Stewart reported additional information. He gave the accurate and true appearance of the so-called "monster" for the first time. The article, "Braxton Monster Left Skid Tracks Where he Landed," also named the "monster" for the first time as "The Phantom of Flatwoods." Stewart reported the following information, according to Mrs. Kathleen May. In that article he reported the monster's appearance" as follows, it "Wore a suit of green armor. Looked like a mechanical man" and "Was 10-feet tall, four feet wide. Had a blood-red face." The reader may have noticed this early use of the word... "mechanical."

    Stewart also reported the figure, "Sported a black, spade-like cowl, which extended a foot or more above the head." This was the first public announcement of what the so-called "monster" was said to have looked like. Even though this information was made available to the public through the press on September 15, 1952, many people were unaware of that particular article. This might explain how our clever critics, naysayers, and so-called investigators... missed it.

    Shortly after, the "The Phantom of Flatwoods" story hit the (U.P.) news wire service! Articles began to appear in various newspapers on Monday, September 15, 1952. Overnight, the incident became a hot news story around the country and the world... but these United Press articles failed to mention the "mechanical man" description of the "Phantom of Flatwoods"! 

    Just days later the "North American Newspaper Alliance" syndicate contacted biologist, zoologist, and noted author Ivan T. Sanderson about this UFO incident. They asked Sanderson to go to Flatwoods, WV. to investigate the story. In short order, he left New York for Flatwoods with his assistant in tow to evaluate the strange tale. 

    Ivan T. Sanderson

    Upon arriving in Flatwoods late that Friday morning, September 19, 1952, they both went to the Fisher Farm where the encounter occurred and they inspected the area. Additionally, Sanderson also met and interviewed five of the boys who saw the "Flatwoods Monster." Though, he did not meet with Mrs. May, A. Lee Stewart, Jr., or Gene Lemon. These principals had already left Braxton County and were away on a trip to New York! They would be interviewed there for the "We The People" talk show later that night.

    It would be on that Friday night, September 19, 1952, that the history of the "monster" of Flatwoods was distorted and corrupted! The monster was incorrectly (even dismissively and unbelievably!) portrayed on that live nationally televised TV talk show!

    Before the TV show aired, as we've mentioned in previous articles, a sketch artist interviewed the two primary witnesses and drew an illustration of the "monster." The problem was that this artist had misinterpreted their descriptions of it and so muffed its depiction! 

    This tall structure, which, "Wore a suit of green armor" and was said to have "Looked like a mechanical man" ...was incorrectly illustrated by the TV artist! He actually drew the figure as a ridiculous "monster" entity wearing an equally ridiculous ensemble topped with a pointed cloth hood, covered with a tunic-style top, wearing a pleated dress, and having bony arms and claws! This incorrect drawing was the image of the "monster" that was to be remembered by the public for many years to come.

    On the following day back in Flatwoods, Saturday, September 20, 1952, Ivan Sanderson and his assistant continued their investigation. They were joined by some other researchers Sanderson had called in, as well as some locals who assisted them in their Flatwoods investigation. 

    They also looked into other areas of Braxton County where additional UFOs were sighted on September 12, and then interviewed many of those witnesses. Sanderson and his assistant would depart Braxton County late that Saturday night, and then drive to Charleston, WV to investigate other September 12 sightings that had been reported in the press there as well. 

    On the next day, Sunday, September 21, they interviewed many UFO witnesses and spent the entire day in Charleston. The two men then departed Charleston at 4:30 pm and drove, for reasons undisclosed, to Washington, DC. They arrived on Monday morning, September 22, completed THAT business... then returned home to New York.

    As a result of his investigation and interviews with the boy witnesses and their drawings, Ivan T. Sanderson realized the figure they saw on the farm was not a "monster." He would publish his findings.


    On September 25, 1952, "The Pittsburgh Press" newspaper ran the story about Sanderson's Braxton County UFO investigation, which was datelined, "SUTTON, W. Va. Sept.24." In this "North American Newspaper Alliance" article Sanderson concluded the following about the "Flatwoods Monster." 

    The "critics," "naysayers," and contrary "investigators" might take an opportunity to gird their flaccid loins. A hugely respected Sanderson stated it "was not a man or a monster. It was some sort of machine like a diving bell." The reader may have noticed the use of the word, "machine."

    Yes, Mr. Sanderson states very early in the history of this affair that the so-called "monster" was actually a "machine." With regard to the "black, spade-like cowl, which extended a foot or more above the head," this was mentioned in Stewart's article ten days earlier. 

    Sanderson would add that it had, "a circular transparent window in front of it." This black cowl was actually an outer helmet that encased a red inner helmet. A. Lee Stewart's article accurately described the giant figure, "[looking] like a mechanical man," and likewise, Sanderson had said, "It was some sort of machine like a diving bell." Sanderson was correct in his assessment that it "was not a man, or a monster," which matched Stewart's original description.

    Taken from the full article...

    Even though this factual information was made available to the public by the press, not many people were aware of this information and believed the Flatwoods entity to be a West Virginia "monster" folklore story. Fast forward many years later, Illustrator Frank Feschino, Jr. would investigate the "Flatwoods Monster" incident and research it for decades. 

    He worked with the actual witnesses as was pointed out. He wanted to know what the giant "monster" actually looked like so he could illustrate it. Feschino interviewed witnesses Fred May and Kathleen May and was told by them that the 1952 "We The People" drawing was absolutely wrong. 

    Fred May told Feschino , "The overall body was metallic, not cloth" and further added, "The figure was made of metal." Feschino  asked Mrs. May, "Did it look cloth-like or metallic?" She answered, "No! It looked more metallic." Fred May also stated, "It was mechanical; it was not alive. Maybe inside the thing—there could have been something that was alive." He concluded, "What I saw was either a small spaceship or suit of some kind. Something it was wearing. It was mechanical." Feschino also learned from Sanderson's research that the color of the figure's metal body was "aluminum in color." The "suit of green armor" as described by Mrs. May and reported by Stewart was likely a reflection of the nearby tree foliage and bushes.

    Feschino then went to work and with the assistance of the witnesses began to work on a series of illustrations. Feschino, a "Paier School of Art" trained forensic illustrator and graduate (and a much better artist than the 1952 TV artist) did several illustrations that more accurately portrayed the true likeness of the so-called "monster." As a result, the West Virginia "monster" folklore story and its INACCURATE image has now been cast aside and the public can see the true image of the "Flatwoods Monster." 


    Mr. Stewart and Mr. Sanderson's accurate reportage of the story from the very beginning had been long-forgotten, but it was verified years later by Frank Feschino's follow-up investigation. The illustrations Feschino did working with the actual eyewitnesses shows how inaccurate the original drawing was, thus making the story convoluted, which turned the "Flatwoods Monster" into a silly and forgettable folklore tale. 

    Feschino also interviewed Colonel Dale Leavitt, the commander of the West Virginia National Guard. This was a military person who received a phone call from Washington, D.C. the night of the cosmic kerfuffle! The Air Force had ordered Colonel Leavitt to the farm, told him to cordon it off, investigate the site, and collect soil samples and any debris. 

    Leavitt and about 50 armed troops taken from a larger force deployed to the farm. He's been ordered to collect soil samples, some debris, and also found a strange oil-like substance. This "oil" had leaked from the "mechanical" monster near the tree of the encounter site. 

    Leavitt stated, "It just sat down. It just sat down under a limb." He added, "Where it sat, it had some 'oil' coming out. Whatever it was." He told Feschino, "I got some of this oil, the little bits of this and that [debris] to see what it was and I never did know what it was.

    Feschino asked, "Now this oily substance that was on the ground, did you have to take samples of that also?" He replied, "I did, I did, and took dirt and leaves and some of the wood." ...What became of these samples we wonder?




    At this point, it was apparent that this so-called "monster" was actually some kind of a machine, a mechanical apparatus resembling a small spaceship that was capable of hovering. Furthermore, this machine also seemed to be damaged and was leaking oil! Leavitt told Feschino, "Well, there was something here that could fly backward or anywhere it wanted to go, as long as it didn't tear up its equipment." Monsters are in need of what kinds of "equipment" we wonder anew?


    Yes reader, Frank Feschino, Jr. was right all along! Critics, naysayers, and so-called investigators? These can pound experiential sand.


    A postscript on our erstwhile critics, naysayers, and investigators... Interest is fine and more research is admirable, even desired. Feschino is likely confident that "new" and "groundbreaking" research would only bear his contentions and assertions about air war with UFOs out. ...But therein lies the rub. "Critics" will "hear" things and "read" things apart from Feschino about the Flatwoods affair... as a passing interest non-consuming and of little import. Then these will produce forgettable assertions based inadequately on Feschino's uncredited work to prosecute whatever raises the boats in their personal harbor... but, these boats are not factually based, easily take on water, sink, and are forgotten... uninteresting, non-consuming, and of little import.

    Consider that it is a fact that the summer of 1952 mirrored a world spike in UFO activity, that these UFOs were regularly impinging on protected air space in the United States, and that President Truman ordered the Air Force to shoot these UFOs down! Further... that there were many sorties of state-of-the-art jets launched against these UFOs... where the loss of men and equipment occurred in what one top official described as "lurid duels with death..."

    These considerations have NOT been of "passing interest," "non-consuming," or "of little import" to Frank Feschino. To the contrary, Feschino, truly the soberest and sanest person this writer (who once commanded a military service academy) has ever known, has made this affair his life's work. Indeed, Feschino has made this still ongoing research his all-consuming occupation for well over twenty years, making no small sacrifices in that pursuit, and has produced for his effort a well-supported work that is so astonishing that if it was up the reader's nose they'd feel bootheels on their f'n chins.

    No... Feschino was the one on watch and making his seminal report. Everyone else slept in, missed breakfast, and are making it up as they go along. Their boats? We'd made it clear they don't float.











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