| 0;What is truth?” Thanks to inclusion in the | | | | along the way and their technology was |
| Bible of a confrontation between Pontius Pilate and | | | | eventually included in future projects based on |
| Jesus Christ, this question or answer is possibly | | | | those original experiments in the 1940s. |
| the most famous statement ever made on the | | | | Despite the ONR interest, suspicious death of |
| subject. Pilate’s definition of truth was | | | | Jessup, alien involvement and other factors that |
| whatever suited his agenda. That definition is still | | | | made the experiment worthy of investigation, |
| used for the same purpose by many today. | | | | most in the establishment UFO research |
| The subject of UFOs and Aliens may or may not | | | | community chose to ignore it. I believe that choice |
| reach the eternal importance of the argument | | | | was based largely on the opinion of scientists that |
| between Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ depending | | | | lined up dozens deep to explain why it was simply |
| on who you talk to, but the search for the truth | | | | wasn‘t possible to conduct such an |
| about them receives the same manipulation. For | | | | experiment in the early 1940s. Today, many |
| example, when UFO Organizations meet for | | | | scientists are no longer arguing over the possibility |
| conferences and symposiums, they often hang | | | | of invisibility, time travel and mind control, they |
| banners that say, “The Truth is Out | | | | are busy arguing over which theory about these |
| There” or “Searching for the | | | | concepts makes the most sense and how much |
| Truth.” But what truth are they looking | | | | it will cost to build the equipment they will need to |
| for? | | | | prove it. |
| I was an avid reader of books about unidentified | | | | Because they have placed their trust in shaky |
| flying objects, extra-terrestrials and other | | | | science, we have ended up with useless Ufology. |
| paranormal phenomenon as an adolescent. When I | | | | Over the past thirty years I have witnessed |
| began my own paranormal research and | | | | various establishment UFO research organizations |
| investigation as a teenager, I decided to be as | | | | embrace cases with dubious photographic |
| objective as possible. The truth I was looking for | | | | evidence and very little witness credibility simply |
| was less theory and more facts. Facts are | | | | because they couldn’t find a way to |
| objective until we decide to interpret them. | | | | recreate the photos in a controlled environment. |
| Today, many UFO researchers view the | | | | When these cases ultimately fell apart or |
| phenomenon as a buffet table. They pick and | | | | someone found little UFO models in a garbage |
| choose what they decide is credible and throw | | | | can, all UFO and paranormal researchers suffered |
| out the rest. Their search for the truth only | | | | a serious loss of credibility. |
| includes those facts that they can or will accept. I | | | | While embracing what seemed like obvious |
| can’t tell you how many important cases | | | | hoaxes to experienced UFO investigators, these |
| came my way (and still do) because others in this | | | | same mainstream UFO research organizations and |
| field simply turned their noses up at the source or | | | | the individuals that hover around them where |
| nature of the information. | | | | quick to denounce almost every government |
| I am not going to tell you that I initially | | | | whistleblower that came along and all the cases |
| appreciated, believed or even liked some of the | | | | they brought with them. The Roswell UFO Crash |
| cases or individuals that I have investigated over | | | | is a good case example. |
| the years. I am also not going to tell you that | | | | In February of 1978, Jesse Marcel placed a phone |
| everything reported to me always turned out to | | | | call to a UFO researcher associated with several |
| be true. Instead, I’ll tell you that it is a | | | | mainstream UFO research organizations. He told |
| mistake to prejudge information based on some | | | | the researcher that he had seen and handled |
| pet theory or desire to retain a certain image for | | | | wreckage from the Roswell event. Marcel was |
| yourself or your organization. | | | | certain this was not simply material from a |
| Sometimes I believe that the original mainstream | | | | weather or radar balloon. Little was done about |
| UFO organizations invented the idea of political | | | | this for a year until an author that knew the UFO |
| correctness. Blasted by the press and scolded by | | | | researcher dug up some old news clippings about |
| scientists, most decided that if you can’t | | | | Marcel in February of 1979. At that point, the |
| beat them, join them. They began to pander to | | | | researcher took a more serious interest in the |
| reporters, journalists, scientists and skeptics. And | | | | case. |
| not just pander. | | | | The author was Bill Moore who ultimately |
| It wasn’t long before the notoriously | | | | published The Roswell Incident. He completed the |
| skeptical, often wishy-washy and always | | | | manuscript for the book without having ever |
| ideologically-driven scientific community became | | | | visited Roswell. It’s important to |
| the litmus test for UFO evidence credibility. If a | | | | understand that Major Jesse Marcel was an |
| scientist could not find a way to fit the facts of | | | | intelligence officer directly involved with the |
| any given case into some current scientific theory | | | | Roswell UFO Crash. He had been making the claim |
| or model, it didn’t exist. The truth became | | | | that the Roswell material was not conventional |
| whatever they said it was and the only | | | | since 1970. I can say with great surety that if I |
| information accepted the mainstream UFO | | | | had been made aware of these claims, I would |
| research community was that which survived | | | | not have ignored them or waited until someone |
| scientific sifting. | | | | gave me a grant to investigate them. |
| I am not the kind of person that believes there | | | | Up until Marcel’s revelations about the |
| are no absolute truths and that life is one big grey | | | | possibility that a real Alien Spacecraft crashed |
| area. However, I also believe that science is a long | | | | near Roswell, NM, in 1947, the establishment UFO |
| way from understanding the nature of those | | | | research community considered the matter case |
| truths, being able to interpret them as a formula | | | | closed. They apparently accepted the government |
| on a chalk board or reproduce them in a | | | | version of what happened and looked at the |
| laboratory. Science is what we think we know | | | | story as a legendary non-event that had been |
| about our existence. It provides a means for us | | | | resurrected by a passing mention in a book by |
| to discover and use certain principles for better or | | | | Frank Scully long after the incident actually |
| worse. It should never be considered a final | | | | occurred. |
| authority to judge what we believe to be true. | | | | History repeated itself in 1997 when retired Army |
| Most scientists ignore facts that go against their | | | | Colonel Philip Corso came forward and told his |
| grain of established beliefs until those facts can no | | | | own story about the Roswell Crash. Corso was |
| longer be ignored. It is process of knowledge and | | | | not just some guy off the street. Despite |
| information forced one way or another by the | | | | amazing credentials, the media portrayed him as |
| whims and egos of academics. It’s | | | | just another UFO witness with a story that went |
| Investigation by Debunking. Instead of proving | | | | against the government version of what |
| something exists, let’s prove it | | | | happened. |
| doesn’t and whatever remains is worthy | | | | Instead of immediately coming to Corso’s |
| of consideration. It is, literally, backward thinking | | | | defense, most in the establishment UFO research |
| and exclusionary research. | | | | community were slow to react and still fussing |
| Investigating paranormal or supernatural events | | | | over a 1994 government statement which |
| requires something more than Debunking. It | | | | provided another one of many explanations for |
| requires the ability to admit that not everything is | | | | Roswell. This time high altitude balloons with crash |
| always as it seems and sometimes things occur | | | | test dummies were blamed for the UFO crash |
| that are beyond our ability to immediately | | | | story. The only problem was that such tests |
| comprehend them. One of the greatest lessons | | | | weren’t actually conducted until years |
| that I have learned as a result of paranormal | | | | after the 1947 UFO crash. Corso probably had no |
| investigation is that anything is possible. | | | | idea that the only way to get noticed by |
| When I first began to investigate the Philadelphia | | | | mainstream Ufology was to make his story |
| Experiment, I was warned not to take it seriously | | | | known to them first. Because he didn’t, |
| by most in the field of UFO investigation. Although | | | | their pundits attacked. |
| witnesses were few and scattered and the | | | | The Corso book was said to nothing more than a |
| information seemed spurious, not all the news | | | | retelling of facts, theories and information already |
| was bad. While denying that it ever occurred, the | | | | provided in books published by (you guessed it) |
| Office of Naval Research began an investigation in | | | | researchers and authors associated with |
| 1957 which involved people that became aware | | | | mainstream UFO research organizations. Of |
| of it and the information they possessed. | | | | course the only ones that probably saw it that |
| It’s always been my belief that if you | | | | way were the pundits. From their standpoint, |
| wanted to find a buried bone, you should follow | | | | Corso should have contacted them, told his story |
| the dog that buried it. | | | | and allowed them to write the book. |
| While it’s possible that the ONR was | | | | U.S. Government Whistleblowers like Robert Lazar, |
| simply unaware of the experiment and decided to | | | | John Lear and Bill English all received the same |
| take a look at the matter, it’s unlikely. | | | | treatment by the mainstream UFO research |
| Investigations on that level were not initiated | | | | organizations. That treatment ran the gamut from |
| without careful consideration and approval from | | | | being almost completely ignored, to barely |
| superior officers in charge. The government | | | | tolerated to being largely discredited. Lazar had |
| interest in the Philadelphia Experiment was reason | | | | impressive academic credentials and was the |
| enough to begin following their trail. Part of that | | | | former employee of a major government |
| trail lead to Morris K. Jessup, an author and | | | | contractor, while Lear was an experienced Pilot |
| amateur astronomer that ended up dead under | | | | with government connections and English had an |
| suspicious circumstances. And that was just the | | | | impressive military background. |
| beginning. | | | | The truth is out there and we’re not |
| The Philadelphia Experiment was said to have | | | | going to find it by ignoring evidence or individuals |
| somehow involved UFOs and Aliens from the | | | | that do not fit our agendas, belittling witnesses |
| very beginning. Allegedly began as a World War II | | | | that happen to contact other UFO organizations |
| Navy Project to demagnetize ships against mines | | | | or attempting to debunk evidence before we |
| and make the vessels radar invisible, it progressed | | | | investigate it. The truth is only elusive to those |
| to a point where a ship became invisible, opened a | | | | who fail to understand that facts are objective |
| door in hyperspace, traveled through time and | | | | under we try and shape them to fit our needs. |
| returned. Alien contact was made somewhere | | | | |