I Have A New Blog

It seems getting this blog off the ground somehow created a bump in the multiverse of causality and something we'd been kicking back and forth with a legitimate company for over a year finally came to fruition.

I don't know if this means that this blog will be defunct. Perhaps some sort of symbiosis can be run between the two, where I post things here that aren't allowed on the commercial site for reasons of taste, controversy, or politics. Already, I have something over there in edit mode that I'm not sure that I want to post. I will never refer to this site at the other one, so this can be our secret.

I am joined in this undertaking by Nick Redfern, a writer whom I share many of the same opinions about the UFO subject.

Seeya over at ufomystic.

The Fortean Name Game

Fortean researchers, most notably Loren Coleman, have written about the frequency of certain surnames in association with strange phenomena.

While reading an account of the travels of the remains of Snippy the Horse, the name game is irresistible. Snippy, if you don't know, was the first victim of livestock mutilation ascribed to UFO aliens, way back in 1967.

In the early 1970s, Snippy's bones were on display in the chamber of commerce at Alamosa, Colorado (the community where she was found.) When the city fathers wanted to throw the remains out, a man named Herman Doty was interested in the bones as the basis of a museum that never happened. As most of you know, RICHARD Doty was the AFOSI agent who ran a UFO disinfo operation against Paul Bennewitz in the early 1980s, as described in my book Project Beta. I wonder if there is any family relationship?

In the 1980s, Snippy passed into the hands of one Carl Heflin, described as a "local collector." As most of you also know, a fine fellow named REX Heflin snapped a series of pictures of a strange, disc-shaped craft in Santa Ana, California on August 3rd, 1965. Both Heflins have passed away in the last couple of years.

Perhaps if my surname was Doty or Heflin, I might have had more luck sighting UFOs, or at least led an even more interesting life up to now.

UFO Sightings of the 19th Century

Just as we suspected.

It's hard to know if any of these are true, or possibly true, or partly true. It does demonstrate that Americans were at least thinking of weird things flying through the skies long before 1947, or 1895, for that matter. It's also nice that someone besides a UFO researcher took the time to look into it.

Perhaps thinking about (or newspaper men making up) the flying things caused them to appear. Perhaps something was in the air that needed people to bring them into sharper focus in our reality. You know the drill.

Bill Moore on Radio Misterioso Again

If we are lucky, reclusive and retired UFO researcher Bill Moore will be joining me again on Radio Misterioso (www.killradio.org) from 8-10 PM this Sunday (12/10/06.) So far I don't have an agenda for the show, but what I am hoping is that readers of this blog will tell others and we will get a lot of call-ins to ask questions I haven't even thought of. The queries don't even have to be about Ufology, since Bill knows a about lot more than just saucers. Maybe you have read of (or heard of?) his book about the origins of the Mormon church.

Just trying to put some things on the table here. Please tune in.