tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post6829513971373350823..comments2024-03-28T15:55:33.435-07:00Comments on The Big Study: IMPROBABLE POSSIBILITIES TOOThe Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-51517603419734836922013-12-28T19:33:30.030-08:002013-12-28T19:33:30.030-08:00This is nothing to get excited about. It's a f...This is nothing to get excited about. It's a four-page article in the MUFON Journal of May 1987. <br /><br />It came about because of the sensational publicity that Streiber was getting, which, alongside a major dead period in UFO cases, was threatening to so dominate the public and media impressions of UFOs as to be dangerous to the field. At the time, Dennis Stacy was MJ editor and a few other sensible people {Marge Christensen, Tom Deuley for instance]} were prominently involved. They worried {as did CUFOS} that if Streiber turned out to be an embarrassing hoax, AND the mainstream UFO community had made no warning signals whatever [many UFO enthusiasts were praising this as a Salvation of the field], UFOlogy would be even more of a laughingstock than it was. <br /><br />Therefore, I was asked literally to read the book and assess it for containment of anything like objective evidence. [or even the potential of it]. This I did. I then created a full page table of Streiber's timeline with alleged interactions listed. I assessed from his words in the book whether there was any corroboration for any of these. I then suggested several alternative hypotheses [some quite flattering] which one could use to cover the book's claims. None of that made any difference to Streiber who was, overtly, quite pissed, and said so. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-54358278767459598942013-12-28T18:35:12.981-08:002013-12-28T18:35:12.981-08:00Prof, the MUFON assesment you mentioned (about Str...Prof, the MUFON assesment you mentioned (about Streiber) , is it available publicly ? or just for internal consumption ? <br /><br />i tried to google search it and found nothing (yet)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-72233085361319632732013-12-23T06:49:58.886-08:002013-12-23T06:49:58.886-08:00I have no way to assess Whitley Streiber. I know t...I have no way to assess Whitley Streiber. I know that his early coming-out period was characterized by strong and sometimes hostile emotions, rather than by any real analysis of anything. I was asked to assess the contents of the Communion book, as to whether there was evidence therein. There wasn't any; it was all "believe it or not" with no sorts of supporting interviews nor anything which would expand the credibility base {despite there being plenty of potential for such.} When MUFON published this assessment, Streiber went ballistic. I sort-of didn't blame him [even though my science view of this was legitimate and not biased], he had a lot riding on this thing both in terms of reputation and cash flow from book sales. Only he knows what motivated the ferocity of the outburst. <br /><br />I got a possible hint of that from Budd Hopkins. Budd and I were quite close at that time and he and Dave Jacobs both told me that Streiber was the single most frightened person that they had ever encountered. As to whether Streiber believed his own assessment of his story: rather quickly thereafter I caught a TV talk show {might have been Sally Jesse Raphael} wherein he went on at length about his experience being due to Witchcraft rather than Extraterrestrials. If you can unravel this mess, you are much more able than I. I haven't even rejected the hypothesis that these are the horror fiction stream-of-consciousness dreams of an imaginative and hyper-emotional talented horror novel writer. Saying that, I claim nothing.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-80617545984103788912013-12-20T16:15:19.791-08:002013-12-20T16:15:19.791-08:00That strange account is very similar to the one Wh...That strange account is very similar to the one Whitley Streiber wrote about in either 'Confirmation' or 'Transformation'. If I'm recalling correctly he was traveling in the tri-state area and took an off-ramp into a very different sort of neighborhood where the architecture of the homes was strange and a serpent motif repeated on several residences....Of course who knows if this was true or made up (I'm still torn on Streiber being completely truthful because he changes his mind so often and doesn't seem to tell the same story twice).<br /><br />~ SusanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-87671494543784884462013-12-20T07:35:30.825-08:002013-12-20T07:35:30.825-08:00Hard to say if it's the same phenomenon [alway...Hard to say if it's the same phenomenon [always assuming that it actually happened of course]. This story combines two different elements seen in files: 1). the unusual lighting situation; and 2). what people are beginning to call "reality slips". The later is the sudden shifting of one's environment to something different than what it should be. This pile of "slip" experiences is a probable jumble which needs sorting out, as it seems to involve a spectrum of "difference" from subtle changes to blunt "alien" surroundings. Your example is far towards the latter. My family's Helen Lane "phantom Hitch-hiker " type experience had very little shift in it. This is for me a rich field for people to begin not only to mass up the piles of cases, but to do some real analysis of them. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-17130047401618727462013-12-19T21:50:51.949-08:002013-12-19T21:50:51.949-08:00i dont know if you would consider this similar to ...i dont know if you would consider this similar to the cases mentioned above (in the post), but when i read your post , this case came up in my mind.. what is it ? is it true ? i dont know.. <br /><br />http://www.mufon.com/bob_pratt/nunez.html<br /><br />On their way home, Carmelo started to drive onto an expressway ramp when a new, olive green pickup truck seemingly came from out of nowhere behind them and passed them, going very fast.Then, just as he drove onto the expressway itself, the truck – and the expressway – disappeared.They found themselves driving in total darkness, unable to see anything.<br /> <br />The old Chrysler was racing down the middle of a broad avenue lined with big buildings with rectangular windows. The buildings reached higher than they could see and everything was red.The eerie red light was shining from inside the buildings as well as being reflected from something high above them.<br /> <br />it looked like "one unending building with the red light coming from inside as well as outside. “Everything was red. The avenue was fifty to sixty meters wide and all the buildings started from the road and went upwards completely straight, very tall. We couldn't see the tops of the buildings because everything was reddish up there. The light came from above. It was a reflection and it lighted the whole city. There were no clouds. It was a ceiling, not a sky.", They saw no curbs, no sidewalks, no doors, no cars, hydrants or signs, no people or animals, no trees... nothing but the tall, unending buildings on either side as far as they could see.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-21735048010969011702013-12-16T12:32:48.959-08:002013-12-16T12:32:48.959-08:00The relationship betwixt time and black body radia...The relationship betwixt time and black body radiation is easily apprehended, but hard to nail down. Probably easier than examining synaesthesia, some things involve frames of reference that are downright questionable.nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10632021240126981592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-87967431729242096062013-12-16T10:05:52.674-08:002013-12-16T10:05:52.674-08:00These remind me of a perceptual color shift I used...These remind me of a perceptual color shift I used to get whenever I meditated back when I was 12 -13 years old. Everything would turn a brilliant emerald green, as if I were wearing colored glasses. This would last for minutes after opening my eyes - longer than typical afterimages. In any case, the afterimages of looking at light filtered red by eyelids are cyan, not green. I couldn't get any other color than green when I tried. I have no idea what this signifies, it may be akin to synaesthesia, where people consistently see certain letters, numbers, notes and so forth as having certain colors.EHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-85681365884995276152013-12-15T18:06:35.571-08:002013-12-15T18:06:35.571-08:00Hah!,my friend. If the only result of posting my w...Hah!,my friend. If the only result of posting my weird atmospheric colors file was to surprise YOU, it was worth it. <br /><br />Merry Christmas, Jerry. The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-24663690836472900302013-12-15T17:40:10.072-08:002013-12-15T17:40:10.072-08:00Again I wonder, why do I think I've heard of e...Again I wonder, why do I think I've heard of everything, only to learn again that I haven't. This is definitely a new one.<br /><br />The only thing it reminds me of is a comment made by an officer at the conclusion of the Civil War battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day conflict ever fought on American soil. As he looked out over the carnage, he said it appeared for a moment as if the landscape had turned red. That observation would later give historian Stephen W. Sears the title for his book on the battle, which he called Landscape Turned Red.<br /><br />In the present instance we have landscapes turned color under more benign circumstances. Also far more mysterious ones. I can't even imagine an explanation, and I don't mean a prosaic one.<br />Jerome Clarknoreply@blogger.com