Alfred Lehmberg, The UFO, AND Ching Chow

Alfred Lehmberg? Alfred Lehmberg is a 76-year-old poet warrior/warrior poet... ...as these have been called for, and for some 60-odd years, too. He is left-handed. That has been his way.

He is, further, a retired military aviator and decorated veteran of air combat with a summa cum laude degree in education and a college-earned "Most Distinguished Student" award, for Art. Husband, father, and grandfather married fifty years this year... we'll cut to the chase! 

Lehmberg is an unabashedly passionate advocate for sane UFO research and its abundantly called for and fulsome disclosure. That disclosure concerns, of course, those factual informations and data points pertaining to same and then collected for decades by an unelected officialdom... so, that "disclosure" for a damned good reason. In short, because inattention to the stark reality of the UFO, as he has professed for decades, seems unintelligent, unprogressive, unimaginative, and unbrave. He feels the UFO is ignored, minimized, or sidelined at humanity's peril. 

Lehmberg has dedicated decades of his life, at some cost, to exploring the mysteries of unidentified flying objects and their many ancillaries, their observable validations and sensical justifications... their eldritch lessons and obscure revelations... their cryptic appeal to humanity's sad lack of humility and some pushback on our unwarranted and deconstructive "scientistic" [sic] hubris? The reader should gird loins at this point.

Lehmberg would prefer the "scientific," acting without hubris. More of that. He feels that hard science is not a religion, its saving grace! If religion were science, Lehmberg has come to believe, it would be working scrupulously to disprove itself, eh? Loins girded?

Sought? Humanity's realization at long, long last that it is itself the only salvation that it can ever have? It was not God running up those stairs of the Twin Towers and the suggestion that God inspired those who did is ludicrously disingenuous...

That authoritarian religion is and has ever been a disingenuously employed and horrifically mendacious ruse ever perpetrated as a too readily used and malicious control mechanism employed criminally by abject psychopaths so that their lurid lickspittles can work to nefarious ends, ends wholly unjustified and of the cruelest means? 

Finally, that God is just a base invention constructed to serve "his" inventors? That's what THIS citizen learned in 76 years of life experience and accredited college.

His thoughts on UFOs are multifaceted, consequently, as a result of these gross seasonal observations and the accounting of the strange accouterments of those seasons... (some seventy-odd revolutions of our turning wheel, as mentioned) ...and then? 

He is well-publicized and has been deeply informed by years of personal investigation and close contact with key figures the likes of Richard Dolan, Robert Hastings, Frank C. Feschino Jr., and the late Stanton Friedman... These are Lehmberg's ufological (there will be no apologies for that word's use) equine quadrature and monumental Rushmore! 

Like them, Lehmberg attempts to observe the intrinsically difficult to observe. He humbly contemplates the UFO's obvious reality, these realities pointedly not subsumed by humanity's obstreperous hubris (wholly unwarranted as aforementioned...), and he makes a real exploration of aspiration into our aggregate humanity's lack of any humility concerning its (our!) own reality... and the wholly avoidable consequences for that obnoxious lack of humility... actually hobbling humanity, is this writer's observation. Lehmberg intuitively suspects that our sincere humility would bring those saucers down.

Lehmberg has been burned by, and so is shy of, any arrogance in every form, his own and that of others. His own especially. Consequently, he finds it difficult to tolerate it in those others as he refuses to tolerate it in himself. ...It is the way.

He's a loose cannon, if of small caliber, and a literary "Hotspur" as Bill Birnes once observed. Truly, he will settle for a Pyrrhic victory where that victory is required in good sense's service. Wrongful insult, inappropriate dismissal, or unearned disrespect for Lehmberg's germane interests and thoughtful expressions precipitates only that "from hell's heart would he stab at thee"! He would offer no apologies even as he admits to any error. ...Admitting you're wrong is a step up, still.

Concluding this portion... "Aspiring to great and honorable things," as was pointed out to him by Suzanne Taylor, "brings mighty forces to one's aid." Lehmberg quotes his father, Alfred Junior, who said, "I know not what course others may take, but mine is changing, now."

Here are some key aspects of Alfred Lehmberg’s cogent perspective on UFOs:

He has an appreciation for "accepting Open-Minded Inquiry"—wholly selfless though organized, objective, constructive, comprehensive, flexible, acceptable, specific, and then thoughtfully funded. 

Lehmberg approaches UFOs with a certain intellectual modifiability (required perhaps as a result of new information), recognizing that there are genuine and quantifiable unknowns in our skies. That's a good thing he believes! 

That the greater darkness will always be revealed by humanity's increasing light is preferred to the eventual boredom the antithesis precipitates, logically! The conquered absence of that "always greater darkness" would get boring! It's why one must pity God, it is supposed. 

Lehmberg further believes that dismissing all UFO sightings as mere misidentifications or hoaxes is premature, unscientific, deconstructive, and... cowardly, to make the point fine.

• His stance encourages massive investment in rigorous scientific investigation and a willingness (a bravery even!) to explore those unconventional possibilities openly, exhaustively, and with inventive humility! Even Occam will complicate the hypothesis necessarily of needs... ...and said so!

• "Government" Secrecy and Cover-Ups: Lehmberg is critical and suspicious of "official" secrecy surrounding UFOs. He contends that there has apparently been a deliberate effort to suppress information and maintain a veil of secrecy, a secrecy perhaps better pierced of reasonable needs and vital cause for the intuited benefit of aggregate humanity. We are not served avoiding our appointment with this metaphorical cosmic dentist or kicking this ufological can down the road as we have, and senselessly, since 1952 when the offical "disclosure" was actually made! Had we addressed all this then it would be last century's news and most of the planet would now have known nothing else! Where could we now be?

• He advocates, therefore, for greater transparency and that "release" of classified UFO-related documents... buoyed with the intuition of decades of personal experience and its accrued sentience aspiring to sustainable selflessness... that an aggregate humanity is better served, thereby.

• Finally, the substantive reality of the physical UFO's study is not served by a duplicitous and so mendacious reinvention of a ufological approach or paradigm into such as is typified by the disingenuous "UAP", for instance, which doesn't even have to BE there at all. Lehmberg feels we don't need new answers! We need new questions while facing the answers THERE and plain! 

The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH): While Lehmberg doesn’t endorse the ETH (the idea that UFOs represent extraterrestrial spacecraft employed by an alien entelechy) as exclusive, he acknowledges its greater plausibility based on the seven categories of evidence extant that the ETH must be the best starting analysis.

Seven evidentiary categories

• He believes that some UFO sightings defy conventional explanations and may indeed involve advanced technology from other civilizations.

• Human Consciousness and Perception: Lehmberg explores the intersection of UFOs with human consciousness. He suggests that our perception of reality may be more fluid and malleable than we realize. This consciousness and perception may be enhanced chemically or technologically.

• He considers the possibility that UFO encounters involve altered states of consciousness or interactions with non-material entities, if entities, still.

Spiritual and Philosophical Implications: Beyond the physical aspects, Lehmberg delves into the spiritual and philosophical implications of UFO encounters.

• He views UFOs as catalysts for expanding our understanding of ourselves, our existence, our consciousness, and our very necessary human interconnectedness. Could the alien not unite humanity?

• He views UFOs as harbingers of the elevation, advancement, and enlightenment for human beings in an evolving universe of science, sense, and pragmatic sentience. This is his strong intuition.

In summary, Alfred Lehmberg’s thoughts on UFOs blend scientific inquiry, a provoked skepticism toward official narratives, and a pragmatic willingness to fearlessly explore the extraordinary... AS ordinary! Of course, grasp can equal but must never exceed reach or catastrophe is begged! Those are our current events, that result of our reach exceeding our grasp! Consider nuclear weapons...

No, we have to know where we put our feet before we put them there! Currently, we shuffle too fast and beyond our means. An avoidable catastrophe looms with our inattention, arrogance, non-science, and our increasing reliance on an ever-failing and untestable faith. ...Religion may not be our salvation... to the contrary, it may be the death of us.

UFOs are, by definition, change, Lehmberg feels, and point to realities of much more breadth and scope—potential and expansiveness for everyone, it is surmised! At the same time, it gets no easier for him to maintain a façade of normalcy regarding the cowardly denial of the niggardly few comfortable in the seats of cat-birds or those "satisfied," but self-enslaved with a hypocrite's faith! 

Accordingly, it becomes increasingly more difficult to tolerate these garden-variety "noisome negativists," these 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, Lehmberg seeks his own questions though the answers offend him, shock him, or shame him. 

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. 

Lehmberg offers lauded writings and illuminative interviews found on the internet and these may continue to contribute to the ongoing dialogue about UFOs and their significance in our world. The sole axe ground will be the one sentiently progressive and aspiring to the courage of conscience. Woke... in a word, as he aspires to that conscience, and without conscience? Well, primary histories have shown that without this "conscience"? Humanity is bestial. 

Oh, to close... there's original music, art, and poetry, too.

On the subject of Ching Chow: those expressions are succinctly made in the following panel. ...But as a prologue, one might concern themselves more with the destinations achieved in each panel than with the mere appearance of the humble guide appearing in same. 

How does he get there? Where does he end up? What ARE these moments in spacetime captured in portraiture? What can be found there? What does the observer see? Racism? Bigotry? Stereotype? We say, no. That's not our table.