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UFO research has its pleasures. I have finished reading "The UFO Gap," the article written by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for the December, 1967 Playboy, and I loved it.
Let me clarify. I did not love the article because it was in Playboy. I loved it because it was a well-written article that layed out a very clear strategy for a scientific study of the UFO phenomenon and it gave me a whole lot of material for the Hynek book.
In my favorite passage, Hynek makes the case for developing an active approach to UFO research as an alternative to the standard passive approach of investigating sightings after they occur (which, in all honesty, is what I do as a MUFON Certified UFO Field Investigator).
He starts out by stating that the passive study of UFOs "is capable of establishing the likelihood that the UFO phenomenon represents something heretofore not recognized in the present-day scientific framework," but is incapable of actually proving it.
"The passive method..." he says, "puts me in mind of the story told about the explorer who had come back from a dinosaur-egg-hunting expedition in the Gobi desert. In his lecture, the explorer presented many cogent reasons why the eggs they discovered were dinosaur eggs. He pointed out that they were about the size and weight to be expected of dinosaur eggs, allowing for dessication and the ravages of time, and that they had about the right color, given the effects of weathering -- all of this leading to strong likelihood that the eggs were, indeed, dinosaur eggs. "'And furthermore,' "the lecturer stated at the conclusion of his talk, "'when we opened one of the eggs, it had a baby dinosaur in it.'
"What is needed in the UFO problem," Dr. Hynek concluded, is a baby UFO somewhere in the crates of UFO reports.
Sad to say, 45 years later we still haven't found the baby UFO, and there are a "lot "more crates full of UFO reports now then there were when Hynek wrote this.
UFO baby. Was Dr. Hynek being this literal?
A BABY CHUPACABRA? READ ON...!
The chupacabra is unquestionably one of the most famous and iconic mystery beasts of modern-day cryptozoology. So when a photograph purportedly depicting a mummified baby chupacabra appears online, it is evidently going to attract plenty of attention - and the above example opening this present ShukerNature blog post is certainly no exception.
Perusing a number of websites containing and discussing it, the most commonly repeated claim made by them is that this supposed chupacabra infant was discovered under an abandoned barn in a small village in Chiapas, Mexico, during the barn's demolition in or around July 2007, and cannot be identified with any known species of animal because a series of DNA, fur, and tissue tests all proved inconclusive. As can be seen here, the photograph is copyrighted to the somewhat oddly-named Dr Zeehc H. Ted.
The reality, of course, is very different. Even a brief examination of the well-preserved specimen is enough to confirm that it is a gaff, i.e. a fake taxiderm specimen composed of body parts from various different species deftly combined together. The principal component appeared to be a baby mammalian carnivore, almost certainly a raccoon "Procyon lotor", judging from its dentition, shape of its paws, and general body and facial conformation. The spines inserted upon its head resembled claws.
POPULAR IMAGE OF AN ADULT CHUPACABRA, COMPLETE WITH HEAD AND DORSAL SPINES (LECIRE/PUBLIC DOMAIN)
In search of clues concerning its real origin, I scoured the Web and soon uncovered the truth behind the travesty (albeit an extremely skilfully-executed travesty!). Just as I suspected, the 'baby chupacabra' was a fake - one of many spectacular examples produced by a male United States (and wonderfully ingenious) gaff creator on the deviantart.com website, who memorably refers to himself as 'Creator Of Things That Should Not Be', and whose user name is dethcheez, This in itself is (or should have been) a major clue to anyone attempting to track down the photo's origin - the name of the latter's copyright owner, Zeehc H Ted, is of course dethcheez spelt backwards!
As for the specimen itself: the deviantart.com page containing the original photograph of it, and which can be directly accessed HERE (the hand holding the specimen was added later to this photo), was uploaded on 26 April 2007 by its creator, dethcheez, who unambiguously labelled it as a "Mummified Baby El Chupacabra Sideshow Gaff Created from 100% Real Parts". But what are these parts? Reading down the comments below the photograph, all is swiftly revealed, because they were correctly identified on 10 December 2009 by a viewer with the user name inkaholic1089, as verified in a comment posted underneath that of inkaholic1089 by dethcheez himself two days later. Namely, a baby raccoon with the claws of a snapping turtle "Chelydra serpentina" used for its spines.
THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF DETHCHEEZ'S BABY CHUPACABRA PHOTOGRAPH, SANS HAND
Another controversial carcase is controversial no longer - and can thus be filed away alongside the likes of the Montauk corpse, Trunko, the Feejee mermaid, and many other monsters of misidentification and fabulous frauds. Moreover, it demonstrates how specimens clearly identified as fakes by their creators (as I noted earlier, dethcheez unequivocally referred to it on his deviantart site as a manufactured gaff) are nonetheless all-too-often deemed genuine and erroneously circulated as such online by many other, less discerning people. It also emphasises, however, as I have previously shown with the fake black lion photos circulating online (click HERE and HERE), just how easy it can often be to expose such specimens' true nature simply by taking time to trace their origins via the internet. This is why it is so surprising to me that such searches are not conducted more often and more vigorously, because this approach would soon eliminate them from the database of genuine cryptozoological mysteries.
THE COMMON AMERICAN SNAPPING TURTLE, WHOSE CLAWS CLEARLY CORRESPOND WITH THE BABY CHUPACABRA'S SPINES (DAKOTA /WIKIPEDIA)
Of course, removed entirely from a cryptozoological perspective, there is no question whatsoever that as artistic creations, the gaffs of dethcheez are exceptionally well-produced, compelling, and diverse - other expertly-manufactured examples from this artist's bedazzling menagerie of fantasy fauna include a Jersey devil corpse, a newly-discovered unicorn shark, a vampire mummy's head, a Burmese centi-spider, a mummified devil turkey head, a two-tailed twelve-limbed sand scorpion, a mummified alien mothman (a novel variation on the Jenny Haniver/devilfish theme!), a snake-headed terrapin, a mummified baby dragon and a baby dragon skeleton, a giant clawed centipede, a mummified baby unicorn, the mounted heads of Peruvian vampire fishes, a mummified winged piglet, plus a vast assortment of shrunken heads, and much much more!
But don't be content with my meagre verbal descriptions of these marvels! Click HERE and pay a visit yourself to dethcheez's deliciously dark realm of undeniably unnatural history!
A DEVIANTART-UPLOADED DETHCHEEZ PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS BABY CHUPACABRA HOUSED INSIDE A GLASS CASE (CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THIS PHOTO'S DEVIANTART PAGE)
Almost forgot: if you're wondering where this baby chupacabra gaff is right now, some lucky ebay bidder out there may well have the answer - and the specimen - because dethcheez auctioned it on ebay, and the auction ended on 29 April 2007. So if the winning bidder (assuming that it did sell) is reading this ShukerNature post, I'd be delighted to hear from you, as it would be good to know something about this fascinating exhibit's current location.
NB - CREDITS FOR ALL GAFF PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED HERE:- (c) DETHCHEEZ/DEVIANTART.COM
"AMERICANS' RIDE TO SPACE IS IN QUESTION" rings out the story title in today's edition of THE NEW YORK TIMES as the Soyuz TMA-22 scheduled for launch on September 22, 2011 is now to be delayed, at least into October. The story is echoed in the BBC, and other international media.
Astronauts and cosmonauts were slated to board the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft for a ride to orbit and subsequent docking with the International Space Station but that was prior to the loss of the unmanned Progress-44 freighter with a fiery crash in rural Siberia. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will now fall silent as the Soyuz boosters now under intensive scrutiny. It was the first launch failure of the Progress since first launched in 1978.
Russia's federal space agency is a sole source provider of orbital taxi spaceflights to the ISS for American astronauts at the price of 63-million per seat. NASA ASTRONAUT DAN BURBANK has the next assigned seat in the now delayed Soyuz TMA-22 flight from the Kazakhstan launch pad. The launch failure will impact that LAUNCH MANIFEST to the International Space Station.
The source of the failure of the Progress-44 vessel has been linked to the third stage of the Soyuz-U. The third stage is identical to that used in the Russian human-rated Soyuz boosters. No manned launches will be allowed until a special investigating commission completes its work, which may take a month or more, says one NEWS REPORT FROM RUSSIA.
Additionally Russian space authorities have put off the launch of a new Soyuz-2 carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Space Center in northern Russia for the beginning of September, the commander of Russian Space Troops, Gen Oleg Ostapenko said Thursday in the wake of the loss of the Progress-44 cargo freighter spacecraft.
On the other hand, the Soyuz-2 maiden flight from EUROPE'S SPACE BASE IN KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA will go ahead as scheduled on Oct. 20, 2011 says Arianespace in A REPORT.
UFO SIGHTING IN CHRISTIANSBURG, VIRGINIA ON OCTOBER 7TH 2013 - WAS OUT ON BREAK AND LOOKED AT SKY AS I DO OFTEN AND SAW OBJECT HOVERING AND MOVING
At around 9:10 pm earlier tonight I was on break outside at work. I was joking around and looked at the sky. At first I saw a large slow moving aircraft with bright lights that was being followed by smaller craft, these craft were aircraft as you could hear the sound of the engines as they flew over. This area has a lot of air traffic, the military flies f-15s at regular intervals, at times, multiple times during the week. To the north lies Blacksburg, Va which has a small airport, this airport has various craft from Cesnas, twin turboprop beechcraft and can accomendate for citations and leer jets. Forty miles away is a regional airport located in Roanoke, Va, the craft that operate out of the airport are large commuter planes. Thinking nothing of the large craft overhead as I have seen aircraft at night like that before, I looked to the south and joked if I would see something. A couple of co-workers have said that they have seen something in the night sky previously the week before last. I observed on the horizon a glowing red object, as I watched the object hovered, moved slowly back and forth, then jutted back at an extreme speed. The object continued to hover slowly changing directions, at this time the objected stopped and moved revealing a second object that went in the opposite direction. As I watched I tried to call attention to a co worker who was taking break outside with me, asking him to look at what I was watching. My coworker said,"yeah, yeah, it's a helicopter", there was no sound though. the slow moving aircraft I saw had sound. I was becoming excited and after a few minutes wrote down notes of what I saw and how it behaved. The sighting lasted for approximately ten minutes and ended as the objects left slowly and disappeared over the horizon. I am including a scan of my notes image from google maps of the break area and hill that the object was witnessed and also a short 3d animation of the object as best as I can recreate while my memory is fresh
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Recently I wrote about my jaw dropping reaction to the interview of Robert Bigelow that played very late on Easter night on the Coast to Coast radio show
Mr. Bigelow talked openly on the show about the privatization of our space program to Bigelow Aerospace as well as other large private corporations. He told us in a nut shell that NASA and our space programs will be controlled and run by his company and those he works with. The goal will be a race for a base on the moon with China as well as a space station and commercial frontiers dealing with the advancement in to space.Mr. Bigelow who also owns Skin Walker Ranch openly admitted he fully knows that UFOs and aliens are part of life and as real as you and me and everything else in our material world. His approach to the subjects may be different however the bottom line is that he is aware they exist and wants to work towards dragging us from the dark ages of the unknown in to the future which means actively dealing with space and those who occupy it with us.
The interview for me was astonishing and massive in news every adult needs to hear. Airing such an amazing show at a time when the least amount of people would hear it is just part of the strangeness involved in this wild interview with a very outspoken Mr. Bigelow.
I placed the interview along with my article on my site for all to hear. The reaction to my doing this simply continued the weirdness of how the subjects of UFOs and aliens are received by the society in this area of the world.
What Mr. Bigelow talked about was major news that is going to eventually affect every person alive. His involvement in the space program and the alien UFO subject will carve the future of everyone on this planet yet the interest in this incredulous interview was at best on the level of a rerun of Star trek by the public even in the paranormal UFO communities!
I have received emails from people who obviously do not know who Mr. Bigelow is, or I should say know how big Bigelow is, in the area of not only space exploration but UFO alien research. To make it short and sweet - you may not know who this man is however without question you do not get bigger or more informed than Robert Bigelow when it comes to space or the understanding of the UFO alien agenda.
With that said I still was sent emails by those who listened to some of what the man had to say in his amazing interview who with little thought process let me know that just because he thinks there are UFOs or aliens does not make it so and they still refuse to think it is real until they see it with their own eyes.
What can one say to those who make silly remarks like that? My only answer can be is that is fine with me but please do not come crying like a small child when the knowledge of UFOs that fully exists on this planet finally sinks in as fact for you. You have been told by millions of people from the beginning of time that unidentified crafts are flying our skies and non-human beings are making contact with humans and have been since our start on this planet. If those who refuse to believe at this point in time that these subjects are not real would consider putting down their hand held gadgets and start to pay attention to real life around them perhaps they would gain a more informed view. Not only would they be able to obtain a better grip of the overwhelming evidence that these things exist they actually may see something they could not explain with their own eyes. UFO's and those who pilot them are out there - ask the millions of people worldwide who have seen them from the beginning of time.
I also suggest to those who make knee jerk reactions to things they really have no knowledge about to first educate yourself by researching the data on these subjects and learn who is who and what is what before attacking other views due to your own lack of collected information needed to make your judgments. Simply shrugging something off because you do not want to deal with it or want it to be true will not cut it for you any longer in this fast paced quickly changing planet. My advice to everyone on every single important subject of our time would be to not continue with your head in the sand where you feel safe but to keep up with the world and its place in this universe so you are able to survive what may soon come our way.
I talked about the strange emails I received concerning Robert Bigelows extraordinary Coast to Coast interview late on Easter night with the host of the radio show Off Planet Radio and friend Randy Maugan's. Randy also both the context of what Mr. Bigelow discussed as well as the reaction of society and the paranormal world community to this extreme forthright interview about the major topics and issues of our times as incredulous as I did.
I have no idea why the announcement of private companies and individuals taking over our space program as well as a super power in the space industry and UFO phenomenon like Robert Bigelow telling us yes he is going to take us to space and YES there are UFOs and aliens not being main stream news everywhere astonishing. The only thing I can do is sit here stunned typing away and say without question the reaction to the event of Mr. Bigelows incredible radio interview by the public was as strange as the information he shared during his radio show interview.
I will post the radio show,you tube that Randy Maugan's and I did concerning this truly high strangeness on my site. For now I will remain confused by the lack of concern by everyone. It is all alien to me!
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A SHORT BUT AMAZING UFO STORY TOLD BY A 61 YEAR OLD (MY CURRENT AGE BTW - NO, THIS IS NOT MY STORY) - HAPPENED IN KITTERY MAINE UFO - (LINK TO BELOW STORY)
"A SIMPLE SIGHTING, BUT UNFORGETTABLE. MY BROTHER AND I WERE STARGAZING IN THE SUMMER (JULY) OF 1968. THIS WAS IN THE STATE OF MAINE,11:00PM. THIS WAS SOMETHING WE DID AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK. LAYING BACK IN LOUNGE CHAIRS. I WAS 17 YEARS OLD, MY BROTHER 20. WE WOULD ALWAYS POINT OUT TO THE OTHER IF ANYTHING WAS SEEN, LIKE SHOOTING STARS. I SPOTTED WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A SATELLITE, AND POINTED IT OUT TO MY BROTHER. HE SAID "I SEE IT." NOTHING UNUSUAL AS WE HAD SEEN MANY BEFORE. WE WERE BOTH FOLLOWING IT WHEN SUDDENLY IT CHANGED DIRECTION ABRUPTLY. A CHANGE OF 90 DEGREES, INSTANTLY. I SAID "DID YOU SEE THAT?" YES! WOW! MY BROTHER REPLIED. WE WERE BOTH STUNNED THAT WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A SATELLITE HAD SUDDENLY DONE SOMETHING NOT POSSIBLE FOR A SATELLITE TO DO. ITS SPEED NEVER CHANGED DURING ITS SUDDEN CHANGE OF DIRECTION. IT CONTINUED ACROSS THE SKY UNTIL IT WAS OUT OF SIGHT. ITS SPEED REMAINED CONSTANT BEGINNING TO END. I AM 61 YEARS OLD NOW AND MY BROTHER AND I STILL TALK ABOUT THAT SUMMER NIGHT. LIKE I SAID, SIMPLE BUT UNFORGETTABLE".
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ONE HAS TO WONDER HOW MANY SIMILAR EXPERIENCES TO THESE TWO GUYS WILL NEVER BE TOLD.
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Been wearing my UFOs are Real, Get Over It hooded sweatshirt lately; perfect warm and fuzzy cover to wear when going back and forth to the coast. I forget how geeky and nerdy it is; no wonder people are giving me those side glances, lol. (You can order the sweatshirt and other items at Binnall of America.)Trickster's Realm will be up sometime tomorrow on Binnall of America. This one's about a Contactee, Dino Kraspedon, from Brazil. And a new piece for UFO Digest should be up any day now; on Marian Apparitions (specifically, Medjurgorje) and UFOs.I've been having Internet connection problems off and on for a few days; I think it's fixed now. If anyone has been using my rlee15@uswest.net email, it's no longer valid. So contact me at rlee@orangeorb.net.For now, that's about it. Oh, a plug for James Rich Studio, and his full gallery at Yessy.com.
