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needlenight
Welcome to ATS!
Nice of you to come by and spend some time with us here. Unless of course you are already an active member.
In all your studies you must have learned quite alot. So with all that experience and knowledge you have, how do you personally think/believe this place works?
This place being existence. Is there a spiritual side of things? A life after death? Are we capable of things we can not imagine? Again, just your personal viewpoint is fine. I am not looking for facts or evidence. But I do like "collecting" points of view.
You may go as in depth as you please, or keep it as simple as you please.
All in all, your general perspective of being and existence.
I suspect one with your experiences would have a very interresting answer to this.
crazyewok
Welcome!
Read your book UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities and although the jury is still out on some things I have to admit I think you covered the UFO subject quite comprehensively! I’m conducting an amateur UFO study of my own and your book has given some valuable direction!
Anyway to the questions which I have two if you don’t mind. But feel free to awnser one if times a issue.
1)In your book you state the US defence department or intelligence community although intrigued unofficially have little interest officially as they declare UFO not a threat. Surely unless you know what they are and what there purpose is having unidentified aircraft or entities should be considered a possible threat, especially as they can see to render both conventional weapons nuclear arsenals useless? Plus if an enemy of the USA or it allies ever produces an unconventional aircraft what stops it from just being written off as a UFO and ignored?
2) Any good pointers for an amateur investigator in the UK?
Thanks for your time!
edit on 30-9-2013 by crazyewok because: (no reason given)
geobro
welcome to a.t.s mr alexander what about the shamans did you find most unusual that they told you and what did they use as a agent was it tobacco or mushrooms or were they natural interested as i have read the cosmic serpent
subby
Welcome, Dr. Alexander. It's fantastic to see you here at ATS.
(edit: oops, one question per post! I've removed the extra questions to post later)
1. (a) Do you believe that intelligent alien beings have visited Earth? If so, what is the most convincing evidence you are aware of that could change a sceptic's perception?
(b) Do you believe that the well-known TR-3B craft (as featured in my avatar picture) could be man-made, military craft, and that the military / secret services exploit UFO mythology to to cover up advances in technology?
Many thanks, and I look forward to any response.edit on 30-9-2013 by subby because: (no reason given)
JohnAlexander
Always loved that cartoon. Many questions here. Blue Book was exactly what the USAF wanted. Make the problem go away. DOD does defense/security. The question to Condon was threat, not reality of UFOs. Since there has not been an invasion by ET, he seems to have been right (partially). As for Blum, he stated more than he knew. Even heard he got the topic wrong as Hersch had pointed him toward RV not UFOs.
I am curious to what extent you participated in MASINT/ARGUS related operations, and whether you are aware if data fusion systems were ever crossed over to look at the UFO problem. I understand you can't talk about intelligence systems in detail. However I would appreciate if you could address whether you know of any automated tracking system like Hessdalen, Project Pennine, or UFO Capture in use (past or present) by the DoD to try and grab multiple source inputs to better figure out what people are seeing.
supermarket2012
reply to post by supermarket2012
As for my question:
In your personal opinion, do you believe our government, or any faction within our government, has more knowledge on the UFO phenom, or possible ET intervention in our past or current history, than the average person who has researched the topics on their own?
Also, in your opinion, do you believe the Roswell, New Mexico crash was a weather balloon, an ET craft, or a UFO?
JohnAlexander
The reason I state that the USG (and MOD) generally don't care is that these events are so rare as to to fall off the scope. There is no doubt there have been significant events. You saw some of those in the book. The problem for UFO groupies is that that they pile them into a single file file and it looks like a lot. When you amortize the sightings over more than half a century and the entire world you see just how rare they are. Of course ubiquitous sensors have provided more incidents. Digital photography has made fakes more prevalent.
Nick Pope has put out some pretty good material and there have been a few good cases in the MOD files that were released.
nitro67
I am wondering if you have any experience with TMS or transcranial magnetic stimulation, the type of technology used by Michael Persinger aka "the god helmet?" Specifically if you yourself have used it or if you analyzed data gathered while someone used such a device.
z00mster
Hello John,
Do you know if remote viewing has been used along with cyber warfare to accomplish goals?
(For example in a case like Stuxnet)
If you don't know of any cases, what are your thoughts on combining the two?
Thanks in advance for your answer!
JohnAlexander
nitro67
I am wondering if you have any experience with TMS or transcranial magnetic stimulation, the type of technology used by Michael Persinger aka "the god helmet?" Specifically if you yourself have used it or if you analyzed data gathered while someone used such a device.
I have met Perisnger, but not tried the helmet. However, the work Bob Monroe was doing was quite similar. He was a personal friend and I did use his system.
The bigger question is a chicken and egg one. That is, did the device cause the experience or just facilitate it happening.
RP2SticksOfDynamite
JohnAlexander
RP2SticksOfDynamite
reply to post by greencmp
Hi John
Thankyou for your time and responses.
Question:
What have you seen/experienced that convinces you that we are being visited by ET/ID's?
Who are they?
thankyou
Have no idea. Believe the ETH is too simple and does not match observations. I can't answer whom where, or why - and they may be the wrong questions.
question:
What does match observations in your opinion? What is your best take on the origin of the strangest and clearly physical UFO's?