1952 & 2024... Parallels AND Intersections?

The Drones of 2024 and the Air Force's 

"Shoot Down" Orders of 1952...

Why have the UFO Congressional Hearings 

Ignored This Groundbreaking Book?

Book: "Shoot Them Down-The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952"

by Frank Feschino, Jr, Foreword and Epilog by Stanton T. Friedman. 

Book Cover Review by Alfred Lehmberg

by Alfred Lehmberg (with Frank Feschino, Jr.)

Over the past few weeks, there have been hundreds of sightings of numerous unidentified flying objects said to be "drones" passing over the United States. Many of these anomalous objects have been reported to be the size of motor vehicles and many have been sighted flying over security-sensitive facilities including Air Force bases and weapons research facilities. Curious. A similar thing went down in 1952 and the president ordered them shot from the sky!

Are these unknown craft really "drones" or are they something else? What else COULD they be? What else, indeed? Some of these drones are as big as SUVs and we have the tech to bring down drones at our whim yet... we are not. What are they? This should not be the puzzle that it has become.

Are they performing reconnaissance missions over the United States and obtaining information? For whom? At this time, no official statement by the American government has explained what these objects are or where they are from. Iran and China are bandied about. Poppycock.

Are these objects secret American aircraft, are they from a foreign nation... or could they be extraterrestrial in origin? Why is the United States Air Force sitting idly by? Are they making any attempt, that we know of, to establish contact with these unknown craft? Why is the Air Force not making interceptions against these things, which are making incursions over security-sensitive areas of the country as we've pointed out?

Let's drop down and take a step back in history to look, once again, at the year 1952. In the book, "Shoot Them Down-The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952" by Frank Feschino, Jr, the author focuses on the UFO problem plaguing the United States in that year. It is a year for UFOs remaining unequaled in American history. 

See, the year 1952 had the most UFO sightings reported to the official Air Force's Project Blue Book (PBB) program ever during its 17-year history (1951 through 1969)! There were actually "1,501" credited UFO sightings reported to PBB during that year. 

Of those 1,501 UFO reports, 303 of those sighting cases were evaluated as "UNKNOWN" cases. Briefly, "Unkown Cases" are those cases where the object is close enough, it is clear enough, and the observer is intelligently experienced enough to be able to identify said object for whatever it is, be it bird, bolide, rocket booster, or balloon... yet cannot make such identification.

Feschino takes his reader on a historical walk-through of these 1952 Project Blue Book “UNKNOWN” cases and the numerous key UFO cases reported that year. It was in 1952, Feschino explains, where the United States Air Force had a very different approach to the handling of what was addressed as UFOs, mysterious "brightnesses," flying saucers, glowing lights, mysterious objects, and those unidentified objects, just to name a few. They shot at them in 1952. ...Brought some down, too, if Flatwoods West Virginia can give any indication... we get ahead of ourselves...

In his book, Feschino gives an in-depth historical account of the military's answer to the UFO problem and how they handled the objects making undesired and repeated incursions throughout American air space and restricted no-fly zones, especially over the nation's capital! Just like they are doing now!

The UFO "problem," or the "UFO Flap of 1952," escalated on the weekend of July 19-20 when literal pandemonium broke loose!  Numerous UFOs were sighted over the restricted areas of Washington, D.C... This resulted in state-of-the-art fighter jets being scrambled after them. 

A second consecutive weekend of UFO sightings also occurred over Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas, on July 26 and 27. This also resulted in jet fighters being scrambled in vain attempts to intercept the mysterious objects. 

The American public was beginning to "panic" over these UFO sightings now occurring too regularly, and they wanted answers! The following information appeared shortly after the second weekend of UFO sightings over the Capital. On Monday, July 28, 1952. The Washington Daily News reported:

"JETS READY TO CHASE LIGHTS—24-HOUR ALERT ORDERED AFTER SECOND APPEARANCE HERE... Jet interceptor planes of the Eastern Air Defense Command are on stand-by, round-the-clock orders today to take off immediately if any more mysterious lights show up in the sky or on a radar screen."

Then on Tuesday, July 29, 1952, the New York Times reported the following, "Air Force Explains 2-Hour Delay In Chasing 'Objects' Over Capital." In part it reported, "An Air Force official tonight [Monday, July 28] said its Air Defense Command had been ready for months to challenge any unknown object aloft." This writer is not seeing any explanation in there...

Also on Tuesday, July 29, 1952, The Washington Post reported the following information in an article, "Jets Poised For Pursuit; 'Saucer' Peril Discounted." On July 28, an Air Force spokesman reported:

"Units of the Air Defense Command have no new or special orders to intercept 'saucers' the spokesman said, but they will pursue any unexplained 'glowing lights' or 'radar blips' as part of their mission to protect the United States against any threat from the skies." ...No "new" orders, the reader will note. 

They'd change THAT tune! The original presidential orders we'll allude to in a moment have never been rescinded (to our knowledge) and are well known.

Observe that on Monday, July 28, 1952, the Air Force also gave another piece of information when they announced their "remedy" to solving the UFO problem plaguing the country. They'd shoot them down! How novel... if against the best advice at the time! The reader will recall that if the alien can even GET here, that's a fulsome indication that they can kick our butts!

The government revealed then that these "shoot-down orders" against UFOs were, at last, made public... by the "Senior Public Information Officer" at the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Moncel Monts. 

Subsequently, on Tuesday, July 29, 1952, The Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper reported this UFO shoot-down story. An INS story stated the following headline and quote about the UFO "shoot down" orders:

"AIR FORCE ORDERS PILOTS TO SHOOT DOWN FLYING SAUCERS IF THEY REFUSE TO LAND..." It would go on to say that Lt. Col. Moncel Monts, the Information Officer, stated: "The jet pilots are, and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can't talk them down..." Disclosure of the 24-hour alert came as new reports continued to pour into the Pentagon—of mysterious objects in the sky. Is 2024 DEJA VU of 1952?

     

Another July 29, 1952 article appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. Its headline read, "Jets on 24-Hour Alert To Shoot Down 'Saucers'" and stated the following information:

"The Air Force revealed today that jet pilots have been placed on twenty-four hour nationwide 'alert' against 'flying saucers' with orders to 'shoot them down' if they refuse to land."

 

         

Also on Tuesday July 29, 1952, the largest post WW II press conference to that date was held at the Pentagon at 4:00 pm to discuss the UFO problem! On the following day, July 30, 1952, The Louisville Courier-Journal disclosed the following statement made at the conference:

"Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, deputy Chief of the Air Force staff for Operations, told the news conference [July 29] that interceptor planes have raced aloft several hundred times as a result of reported sightings of unidentified objects. He said that was just standard procedure." Standard procedure is to keep launching on things you won't really admit are even there?

Yet, as it turns out, these jet scrambles after UFOs were nothing new. In December of 1949, Major Donald Keyhoe stated the following information in a TRUE magazine article titled, The Flying Saucers Are Real:

"More than 300 times, Air Force interceptor planes have chased mysterious lights and unidentified objects revealed by radar scopes." He added, "Week after week jet fighters are 'scrambled' at points around the country for saucer 'chases.' " Well now!

In his book Feschino also writes about the numerous encounters occurring between U.S. fighter planes and UFOs throughout the 1950s! In 1956, former 1952 Project Blue Book Chief, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote, "In the summer of 1952 a United States Air Force F-86 interceptor shot at a flying saucer." He also stated the following about historians, which concerns the two incidents involving fighter pilots Lt. Gorman and Captain Mantell who attempted to intercept UFOs said to be normally peaceful:

"Other assorted historians point out that normally the "UFOs" are peaceful, Gorman and Mantell just got too inquisitive, they just weren't ready to be observed closely. If the Air Force hadn't slapped down the security lid these writers might not have reached these conclusions. ...There have been other and more lurid duels of death..." Excuse me, ...lurid death duels? That sounds busy!

Additionally, in 1952, General Benjamin W. Chidlaw, the Commander of the Air Defense Command, made the following statement to researcher Robert Gardner in 1953, “We have stacks of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” ...And there you have it honored reader! 

Men, many men, and their planes... LOST... chasing UFOs... This is from the mouth of a four-star! That sounds like official disclosure to us!

Feschino then takes another step forward and more closely examines those aforementioned many cases involving fighter planes mysteriously crashed or vanishing into thin air during the 1950s! He zooms in and focuses on the "Six Deadly Years" of mysterious fighter plane crashes... and disappearances (!) occurring between 1951 and 1956. 

Using the New York Times as his database, Feschino recorded more than 200 American fighter aircraft destroyed in accidents and 200 pilots and radar observers who were killed or vanished, worldwide! We remind the historian that none of these fighters we're discussing were involved in the Korean War air wars! It was the majority of these fighter accidents occurring over the United States that is the issue. 

Yes, some fighter aircraft accident cases were indeed caused by pilot error, which led to their death and destruction... only I was a military pilot. We were trained to preclude the possibility of pilot error to the maximum extent possible. Errors are not made lightly. They shamed and humiliated us. 

So it remains, there are too many 1950s fighter aircraft accidents occurring under more unusual and mysterious circumstances than to account for mere pilot error. We submit that this is fair.

The questions just leaping forth regarding why so many of these fighter aircraft accidents occurred at all beg for answers! Was it "pilot" error, four aircraft in a flight all running out of fuel at precisely the same time, faulty aircraft disappearing like popped soap bubbles... or were those the "lurid" consequences accrued encountering UFOs... alluded to by Captain Ruppelt? Lurid, indeed.

Pioneer UFO Researcher, Leonard H. Stringfield, made the following statement in his 1977 book, Situation Red-The UFO Siege. He writes:

"Back in the early 1950s, when I knew of the jet scrambles that sometimes led to disaster, I agreed with Major Keyhoe's writings that in these we may know the intent of the UFO. I also agreed that 'losing our aircraft to the UFO' may have been the reason for official secrecy, fearing that the public would panic if they knew the truth."

Well, we still don't know the f'n truth, do we! With the drone enigma of 2024, will we be denied the salient and elevating truth yet again?

Could this be the reason why the United States is standing decidedly down and NOT scrambling its fighter jets for the mysterious objects said to be "drones," or employing electronics against them that fry their circuitry? We have that stuff... it's no secret.

In Donald Keyhoe's 1955 book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, He stated the following, "More than one interceptor pilot, recalling Mantell's death, told me of the tension in flying saucer chases." Have the UFO Congressional Hearings ignored this groundbreaking book, "Shoot Them Down" because it would panic the public and reveal the ongoing UFO cover-up from the past? That's weak tea, reader.

If so? We are NOT served by this governmental coddling of our ufological sensibilities! We need to get on the other side of this alleged "panic." If we panic! We panic! There will be an OTHER side to that, and we can go forward, improved on firmer ground... is this writer's intuition! 

We need to be the species we need to be! Anything else and we are mewling WORMS undeserving of concern, consideration, or even contempt! We are patheticism personified! We are better than that. Read on!

Friedman Finely Tuned

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"David"—"Goliath." ...Still fighting it seemed. 

One's over-cocky and predictably reamed. 

One strides the "mainstream" opposed by too few 

while his honored opponent's courageously true. 

See? One narrows scope to a facile percentage, 

the other is open to "data," comprende? 

One is a scoffer with "knee-jerk dismissals"; 

the other's employing the...facts... (!) as his missiles!

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Filled with his "confidence," and the girth of his "creed," 

Goliath was RIPE for a fall that he needs. 

David, well-read, was prepared for his role; 

Goliath shows up with his head in a bowl! 

David shoots well, and infuses his points. 

He cited them; hell—he was owning the joint!

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Then, Goliath seemed caught in his own vicious trap; 

he hadn't prepared and was pinned to the mat! 

Stone-marked and bleeding he moans on the floor! 

He proves to his last that his "less" is not "more."

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Bereft of his homework, Goliath's ungainly. 

He fumbled around for his words so inanely. 

He cheery-picks data: so grinding an ax 

to qualify "comfort" he knows cannot last.  

See, profoundly ill-read and bereft of a clue? 

He insults all intelligence to misinform you!

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Goliath is vanquished for arrogance, friend. 

He lies "belly-up" for his close-minded kin. 

Plus? The sneers from his camp are the stones that are used 

in the sling of a righteous, experienced few.  

Friedman's experienced, sober, and fair... 

debate is a conflict, and Mike's blood is shed there.

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'Round and around went the heft of Stan's sling; 

his arguments whistling like fiery stings... 

on the physics, the cosmic, and base relativity! 

Shermer seems mired in mawkish proclivity... 

his ignorance plain of our search for the answers 

that excise an "ignorance"—our cognitive cancer!

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See, Friedman could read and he'd read the man's book. 

He's studied his "Rommel," so like "Patton"? He cooked!  

Soaring in argument, cleaving said air, 

he showed beyond doubt that his argument's fair.

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Shermer, assured of his "glorious might," 

that he's to prevail in his "no contest" fight, 

was covered with gaps in his "armor-cum-science" 

which weakened his impact—was itself pseudoscience.

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Goliath is beaten, but will not admit 

that the intrepid David had merit and grit. 

Dismissal's outrageous, a listener concludes. 

The argument's valid, and the thought now intrudes... 

that space is a huge place, completely unknown, 

and it's filled to the BRIM with "anomalous foam"!

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Lost in its hugeness is mind undefined 

by concepts which limit and keep it *confined*.

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We hold to these tails of "too timid" tradition—

are blind to the front by this backward transition.

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Complacent, believing proud science must win, 

we turn a blind eye to the discounted fringe... 

which begins a small distance from what we now know 

is the little we know of what's hidden there, Bro! 

What can be measured; what can be seen? 

What is seen CHANGES to fit any scheme!

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Friedman won out once again 'cause he's right. 

His scholarship proves what he sees in that light! 

He follows the traces the data proscribes, 

arriving at places the facts can't deny!

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Why, he has what compels me to question the *man*, 

for all the *man's* blandishment—pretended elan. 

Stan had the right stones, and he hurled them well. 

Degrees will mean nothing if cheating to sell.

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So flourish, false skeptic, your arrogant spite—

and feel that stone as your forehead it strikes!

lehmberg2002@gmail.com
www.AlienView.net

When Dr. M. Shermer says that a 'spaceship' and 'body' would "do it" for him, frankly? He lies. 

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That's just to start. Shermer is CSI(cop) affiliated, Prometheus published, a default corporate media lap-dog, and nay-saying "goto" guy? C'mon!

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Dr. Shermer: "...is a reasonable man who can at last be convinced given extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims"? What a load! See, none of these guys are!

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No. Nothing would *do it* for him, it is offered, but that *it* is sent back for some "additional analysis." He would continue to demand further analysis until *it* was either proven "wrong," however ephemerally, or he was checked into a rubber room and Thorazined to incontinence... the same things, actually.

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The late Stanton Friedman believed we are not served by our ignorance in these matters. I suspect that Dr. Shermer believes we are. That's why he'll lose the real debate, every time.

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Moreover, with regard to Dr. Shermer: I suspect all his points as based on ignorance, misinformation, and an apparent will to promote these things! Who did he cite for support but his fellow axe grinders. Axe grinders handily blown away by Friedman already: Nickell, MaGaha, Nye, Clancy and Pflock spring to mind... but forget that.  Shermer, once a "Jesus played with Dinosaurs" born-again Christian himself, perhaps only prosecutes a new way to be a religious fundamentalist.

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Asked who tries to cleave closest to the "spirit of science" and "consistent method," one can only give Stanton Friedman that nod. See, Shermer insists on taking inappropriate, unnecessary, self-serving and so unproductive pains to satisfy Occam.  His assumptions are contrived.  His premise is flawed.  His assertions are fatuous.  His presumptions are uninformed.  

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Indelibly canted, he's a lost fundie ball in a tall grass he refuses to mow himself, and with the most tedious and intransigent steadfastness, too. The preceding is an essay map for a paper exposing Shermer's "to-a-fault" reluctance to remotely complicate the UFOlogical hypothesis, a reluctance of his own unbrave needs, and so not in accordance with Occam.

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There's some irony, on the surface at least. Dig—shallowly—to find there's no irony, really, at all.

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And did you notice, reader? At 27:33 remaining in the fourth hour of the referenced C2C podcast... Dr. Shermer made still one more reference to an "anal probe." What is it with Dr. Shermer and anal penetration but that he titillates or otherwise rubs the salacious crotches of the left half of humanity's "Bell Curve" with his errant conversational puppets and gross anal fixations, eh?

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...And again, I have to ask. Is any of this in any way comforting considering all the psychological training he has had? Is this appropriate behavior? Read on!

...Whistling Sling! 

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.  

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 contrived—not kidding*—

startling questions go unanswered 

by those persons faking answers!

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...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!

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We might look for stuff I've spied 

in daylight, dusk, or starry skies. 

We could change our attitude

—cop to truth? Be—so—imbued!  

Avoid denial so mal-serving.  

Be forthcoming!  Be deserving!

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...Like, make it not a "petty" crime 

to fake a "sighting," anytime!

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It's the SAME as "terror," clear? 

Yelling FIRE in a theater! 

It's faithless, mad—a mal-occurrence—

to willfully create disturbance!

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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!

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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!

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See? Burned and shy 

one WILL stop looking, 

and one not looking... 

begs their schtupping! 

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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!

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...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"...).

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It's true I'm asking twitchy questions, 

but you dismiss the mere SUGGESTION: 

that "worshiped" science is insufficient, 

incomplete, and so? Deficient!

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...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 grace—be sure...**

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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?

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This was what their "legends" said? 

This was myth (?), and fiction wed? 

This was "odd coincidence"? 

This "was nothing"—of "no significance"?

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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!

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"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?

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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!

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We're an "entree," food, of course, 

for such as... ...sans compassion's force. 

See? Disrespect is tendered us 

by leadership betraying trust!

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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"?

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Buried "heads" in shifting "sands" 

just makes it harder—understand?

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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"...

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Everywhere you look there's lying! 

Christians spinning webs decrying... 

sins unseen if of their own, 

but quick for others with their stones!

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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"!

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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!

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Best we cop and get right to it. 

I won't hear excuses—screw it!

We betray our own salvation

While superstitions fake foundation!

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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!

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We're not alone and we should cop. 

We're being watched, and we should stop!

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"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!

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...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. 

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

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

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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!

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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.

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Why unsettling?

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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?

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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.

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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!

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

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

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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?

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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!

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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"! 

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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!

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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.

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These have a special axe to grind 

to cushion senses they contrive 

to justify unbrave contentions. 

See? They won't *see*... They lack dimension!

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Yes!

I -- UFO's have peppered history!

II -- They EXIST!

III -- There IS a mystery!

IV -- Leaping in our skies are flown 

the enigmatic lights we've KNOWN!

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...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.

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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?!

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Sceptic! Don't pretend your faux concern; 

you will come to live and learn—

at issue is the profiteering 

you enjoy while proudly sneering!

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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 purr—absurd!

.

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!

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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"!

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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?

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"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!

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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"!

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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!

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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'...

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What can happen, happens plainly, 

and cannot happen once, insanely. 

What occurs, occurs again!  

"Formality's achieved" my friend! 

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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...

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 ...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!

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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...

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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?

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...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?

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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!

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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...

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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!

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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!

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lehmberg2002@gmail.com
www.AlienView.net

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

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First, we were the "Jewel in God's crown" on a sol-system-centered if imperfect world—still 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.

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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!?

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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! 

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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.

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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?

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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?

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

Restore John Ford!

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