"Worlds In Collision!"

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What if Earth and Mars contrived... 

to meet in space... and coincide?! 

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This, in fact, may just have happened...

planets in upheaval, flattened...

...witnesses not blown away?

They spoke about their fate that day!

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Spoken words are written down

Knowledge passed through time abounds.

Legends born to not pretend

instruct us now sans all pretense!

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...Closer did that "red dot" loom? 

The bigger dot's the nearer doom! 

Too soon ...That planet makes arrival, 

and we're burnt toast! Beyond survival?

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Witnesses know hypertension 

as Mars provokes their apprehension.  

...This is in the written record, 

persons saw this thing conjectured... 

when planets danced their sweeping turns

—provoking terror—stomachs churned...

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...You'd stare aghast at flaring skies 

to see the moons of Mars describe... 

...an arc that drags them through your air 

to swirl burning clouds up there?!

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"Horns" these grow, or "beards" they have, 

with "hair" or "arms" or "hands" that grab! 

These smash your walls and raze your cities; 

nature frowns, enraged—no pity!

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Moons of fury! Roundhouse swings! 

Winds a flurry—shrieks and screams: 

these presage hapless Earth's decrescence*

as "gods" who'd teach their harsher lessons!

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See, massive bolides in the sky 

will make their "dangerous dance"—we die! 

...And bad enough they swing to miss us, 

if a "punch" should land to "kiss" us? 

We would cease to even be—

our atoms scattered! You and me!

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...Forget the moons, and think attraction. 

Remember "tides"—our moon in action? 

Mars could pull the seas so high 

they'd scrape the clouds from starless skies!

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Tidal waves, some miles tall, 

could wash the planet pole to pole! 

This "pull" of all that gravitation 

raises water's aggravation—

smashing up (with shocking force!) 

our puny buildings... down, perforce!

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...Cheek by jowl our bones would molder, 

death would rot in mountains—bolder... 

...That which lived: now cubic miles 

of heaped up dead-fall—death in piles!

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Hummingbirds and tiger's paws 

are mixed with shattered human jaws, 

but pounded to a carbon slurry... 

then whisked away by water's fury!

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Forget the water, what of EARTH? 

It's moving like the water, WORSE: 

...along with water's crushing force 

it hoards electrons—but of course. 

The Lightning is impressive—grand—

if cloud to cloud or cloud to land. 

Its bolt is HUGE just "Earth confined"; 

it shatters hills and strikes one blind!

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This is NOTHING when compared 

what's passed between the planets, shared—

where bolts become the spears of Zeus, 

and miles THICK... these bolts cut loose!

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Its smallest ZAP would dwarf the canyon 

we have labeled "Grand," companions! 

Fire breathing, mad, and sacking, 

Mars: a twisting—churning—*dragon* (?) 

existing down to present day... 

these echos of old legends made...

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Forget the lighting, mere *influence* 

turns the POLES to new congruence! 

The Earth's thin crust is wrenched quite loose 

and continents are bashed—abused—

to take new form, are rearranged, 

and shredded in a blender—braised!

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What was frozen, blisters—STEAMS (!) 

in hot hell-fire: shrieks and screams! 

What was tropic harbors glaciers, 

scraped down clean—it's God's erasure!  

Burning naphtha rains from skies, 

these churn with madness undefined, 

and Earth's afire—carbon black—

absorbs the heat ... but cold comes back!

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Those perceiving huge events 

are scarred beyond their scared consent...

Burnt into their hollow souls 

how well they'd know these words as told...

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The suffering—it's so intense—

the blood is ink for lines they'd writ, 

and all the horror of those days 

is written into parts we'll play? 

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We are hanging by a thread... 

a sword of Damocles... above our heads.  

...and we betray with thoughtlessness 

to push these thoughts away repressed...

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Though, pity those who've watched the planets 

spin too close... or touch—God damn it! 

It is not to be conceived

this horror that we once perceived...

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These are sights one shouldn't see!! 

They stun and shock, too harsh to BE! 

These are "Worlds In Collision." 

These provoke profane religions!

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This is more than mere contusion. 

This is cosmic mass confusion. 

This is more than can be borne, 

to be impaled on nature's horn, 

but such it IS as world's clash, 

their air afire—their waters smashed!

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Such it is to SEE abased, 

Our world in such a HARSH embrace! 

Such it is in "Earth's Upheaval"—

slaughtered piles of critters/people, 

thrown up in these massive banks 

of ruined flesh which rotted—stank...

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Past is future, mixed as one, 

precluding fate... which comes undone: 

destiny, in shades all gray, 

dissolves the futures lost that day.

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When at last we're all struck down, 

when every smile becomes a frown, 

will we recall we had a chance... 

avoiding, then, disaster's dance?

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Imbued, perhaps, our very genes, 

themselves, are left to keep lost dreams...

lehmberg2002@gmail.com

www.AlienView.net

...But never—no never! ...Never to shining and shiny "Man," that singular jewel in the crown of all God's creation! "Cosmic destruction" is, of course, beneath ourselves?  This writer's thinking is that "shiny shine" alluded to may be the glare of cosmic stage lights... on flop sweat...

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Har... no pride at the fall.  I only hope I have the time and the fortitude to hoist the pointy salute of the "junior bird-man" in the face of that looming doom!  Remains, we could have had a lifeboat on the moon; we thought it safe to have all our eggs in one basket...

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On another subject, be sure to check the just above illustration for this one closely. Is there something in there you missed? There is something similar in many of my illustrations. Though, invariably un-noticed. I don't mind. They're subtle.  Only, they might be what you need to see, eh?

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It occurred to me that, just perhaps... I should tell, not where they're at... no, never then just what and where... Just that something's lurking there.

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Left click the illustration, remember, for the big picture.

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Tune in next time, won't you, for some discussion on the *difference* between science and the ubiquitously intrepid scientist.  Be warned. Pride does go before the fall.

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Restore John Ford.

*The opposite of concrescence

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!