Skywatcher Part II

[Ksihkehe]

It was just released not too long ago. Not much to it.

Dr. Nolan's eyes are incredibly beady in segment and the desert backdrop has him looking all Walter White here.

James Fowler is leading the tech side and is interviewed.

"I don't believe. I'm not Fox Mulder. I have no faith in UFO/UAP Stuff. I have no belief in off planet anything."

He goes on to talk about three types of presumed origins for craft. There are US, Chinese, and "other/unknown". He says they now have enough data to say they have something recorded.

It's contradictory to say he doesn't believe while also saying they have sufficient data to know there is something there and that they consistently get craft responding when they use their methods. He claims 300 sorties have been tracked, including many that were more than one craft at once.

They're not releasing all their data. People they bring in get limited access for a limited time to produce an analysis.

The dude says all these visual sighting are new and not something they've seen in the past five years (which is weird since this is allegedly a new group).

They intend to release information about 9 classes of UAP. Part 3 will be about the psionics team.

No mention of their electromechanical dog whistle, how they're allegedly calling them in. I'm guessing their psionics team is not going to release their method either, but would guess it's similar to Greer's CE5 process.


Drip, drip, drip.

[NobodySpecial268]

They do take nice photos though. So if I take one of their images of a pulsating light, and use conventional dowsing techniques to measure the image in the Bovis scale. What we get is a spectrum of 2,000 to 6,000 angstroms.

That is from about the (not quite) gamma --> x-ray --> UV --> visible spectrum (stopping before infra-red).

I bet the lights are something like an electromagnetic excrescence.

Origin of 'excrescence'

Main points about word origin

The word comes from the Latin 'excrescere', meaning 'to grow out of' or 'to increase'.
It is formed by the prefix 'ex-' meaning 'out' and 'cresco' meaning 'to grow'.
It first entered the English language in the early 17th century, often in medical contexts.

The word 'excrescence' stems from the Latin 'excrescentia,' formed from the prefix 'ex-' meaning 'out' and 'crescere,' meaning 'to grow.' The term was originally used in Latin to describe external growths that deviated from the normal structure of the body. It was adopted into English in the 17th century, primarily in medical contexts. Over time, its use expanded to describe various types of abnormal growths in biology and pathology. 'Excrescence' emphasizes the idea of something that is not just a simple growth, but rather an abnormal or excessive one that stands out from its surroundings. This term highlights both the nature of the growth and the potential implications for health.

[Ksihkehe]

They do take nice photos though. 

Their graphics and production quality are great, but I wasn't really impressed with the craft images.

The bar is low considering how much we get that is just a blob of meaningless blur, but I wasn't that impressed compared to other footage we have. As much of a letdown as the egg footage was from Coulthart, it was very crisp even if it was pretty disappointing.

I don't envy anyone trying to get footage of distant things in the sky. Unless something was quite close I wouldn't even bother trying. We have great views around here, but we also have particulates in the air almost all the time. You can see the mountains, but if you try to take a photo you end up with pixelated haze. There is no way I'd be able to zoom in on small objects in the sky. I'm sure much of it can be overcome with polarized lenses and equipment, but there's always a limit.

I look forward to them releasing much better images, but the disclaimer about their data isn't a great sign. I think of holding back data as being potentially related to a few things. There may be an intent to profit off the information in some way. There may be contracts, laws, or whatever, that prohibits sharing full sets of data collected. There could be an intent to shape a narrative based on highly selective data analysis. It could be they'll release it upon request to any researcher that provides a study outline. I don't know. It's still early.

I remain willing to give them the benefit of doubt, but we'll see how long that lasts.

It's moot for me because I have not even the faintest idea what to do with a bunch of radar and IR and whatever it is they're up to.

[NobodySpecial268]

From about the 03:00 mark to the 05:00 they show moving images of "lights" which are much better than the original tictac video the military allegedly put out a few years ago.

The two images below are from the video.

   

   

Quite fun to watch.

I look forward to them releasing much better images, but the disclaimer about their data isn't a great sign. I think of holding back data as being potentially related to a few things. There may be an intent to profit off the information in some way. There may be contracts, laws, or whatever, that prohibits sharing full sets of data collected. There could be an intent to shape a narrative based on highly selective data analysis. It could be they'll release it upon request to any researcher that provides a study outline. I don't know. It's still early.

Well, I doubt they will give any secrets away as to the techniques. If they did, someone else would copy their work and probably put them out of business.

The Americans make the most noise about the UFOs. The Russians on the other hand seem to mostly ignore the UFOs and Orbs.

Here's one from Crimea in the Russian Federation. Cape Meganom I think is the location. Apparently a hotspot of activity for a long time.



The Orbs in this video remind me of the Phoenix Lights.

[Ksihkehe]

Well, I doubt they will give any secrets away as to the techniques. If they did, someone else would copy their work and probably put them out of business.

If the only thing keeping their business afloat is a secret signal that can't be replicated then they're going to basically be a media production company. If that's their intent then they're just another in a long line of UFO media production outfits.

We'll see where it goes. If they're seeing this much activity in a short amount of time then we should have some better images soon where the object is clearly not a conventional craft or balloon. There will always be a question about things being classified military projects, but currently the images aren't good enough to rule anything out.

[NobodySpecial268]

We'll see where it goes. If they're seeing this much activity in a short amount of time then we should have some better images soon where the object is clearly not a conventional craft or balloon. There will always be a question about things being classified military projects, but currently the images aren't good enough to rule anything out.

If I remember correctly, they say they have a way of getting the attention of the "lights". If that is so, one must keep in mind that the "lights" are not performing seals at Seaworld. It is a two-way street, and the "lights" would have their own ideas behind turning up.

It is interesting in a humorous way that the "lights" don't pose for close up photos. "They" obviously have their own agenda.

[FCD]

I'll just throw this out there, FWIW...

If E.T. has the technology to come to Earth from another star system, then E.T. knows everything there is to know about humans.  Because, we're talking about technology that we (humans) can't even imagine, let alone invent.  Consequently, it naturally follows that if E.T. didn't want to be seen, then we (humans) would never see E.T...like at all...ever.  AND, if E.T. did want to be seen, he wouldn't appear in some distant, shaky (or blurry) video.  If E.T. wanted to be seen and detected, he'd set down in the middle of the White House lawn in full view of anyone who cared to look.  There's really not any ground in between...if you think seriously about it.  E.T. would never be this elusive..."now you see me, now you don't"...phenomenon.  Well, that is unless you also believe that E.T. also has a giant sense of humor.  But something tells me E.T.'s sense of humor (if he has such a thing) would be something us humans could not begin to even comprehend.  Like his humor would go..."right over our head's"...literally and metaphorically.

These UFO/UAP guys are all just a bunch of hucksters who sold plastic bead necklaces on the beach before they got this UFO gig.

Do I believe E.T. is real?  Well, there's a solid argument for him and a solid argument against him existing (depending on whose mathematical model you look at), but I would say the odds of E.T. existing somewhere in the Universe are definitely in his favor.  However, I will also say my usual piece here...humans are selfish and self-important, egotistical, creatures.  To think E.T. would actively seek out some fragile to a fault creature such as humans from across the Universe pretty much pegs the ego-meter.  We humans just aren't that important to the big scheme of things.  And, if that wasn't enough, to think that E.T. would be a life form we humans would even recognize as another life form blows the needle clean off the ego-meter!

But, but...BUT...you say.  Maybe it's not E.T.!  What if it's just some phenomenon other than E.T.???  Okay, fair enough, BUT...that is never, not even once, how ANY of these UFO/UAP phenomenon are ever characterized by any of these 'researchers'.  Not once!  Nope, it's always a "shapeshifting 'grey' behind the steering wheel"...every time.  It's always the two big eyes, big head, a torso, 2 arms and two legs, drug out of a crashed spacecraft in Roswell (or somewhere) and taken to Area 51.  Every time.  So, when you ask why this is; the answer is pretty obvious, isn't it?  Because that's ..wait for it...where the money is.

Sorry for being Debbie Downer here, but just wanted to throw out this counter-point.

"Prove me wrong!"  

[FCD]

BTW - I used to live not far from "Skinwalker Ranch".  I grew up not far from there, and we used to go there all the time as teenagers back in the late 70's and early 80's.  Lore had it the place was haunted, so we'd take our GF's out there at night hoping we could 'skeer' them.  Back then the property was still owned by the Myers family.  Decades later the History Channel came out with this show called "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" (among several other books about the same subject).  I've never laughed as hard as I have watching that show.  There's one guy on the show who openly calls himself a "Physicist".  The guy is supposedly in charge of all their "scientific research team"...and the guy doesn't even know how to read a simple spectrum analyzer.  As a real physicist (not one on TV), I about fell off my chair with this guy launching toy rockets you can buy in a hobby shop up into the sky and then excitedly pointing to a spectrum analyzer showing nothing more than the nominal noise floor for normal background radiation and jumping around pointing, saying it was proof positive that there was some "super-natural" force out there.  I got an extra hearty chuckle when they had the spec-anny's manufacturer's name covered with tape (it looked like an HP scope to me, but it might have also been a Teledyne also).  Whomever the manufacturer was probably told the producers they didn't want their name associated with a raving idiot like that calling himself a "physicist" and they'd sue if they didn't tape over the ID tag on the scope!!  It's really THAT much of a joke!

I called an old friend of mine who lives just northeast of there in Vernal and asked him to swing by there sometime (he deer hunts not far from there) just to see what it looks like now.  He called me back a couple months later and said they've got the place locked down tighter than a drum now.  Big fences and gates, "NO TRESPASSING" signs all over the place.  All private stuff, not like any sort of a government installation.  After some poking around he found out it's all from the people producing this bogus TV program.  Why?  Because that's...wait for it...where the money is!

Just further proof; these guys are all just a bunch of hucksters, social media fishermen and guymen protected by a bunch of craigslist bodyguards!  LOL!

I could go on and on about this show, but you get the idea.  Watch it one time and see for yourself.  The property itself is less than a section; it's just over 500 acres, which makes it less than one mile on a side.  Watch for when they say stuff like..."I'm going to drive up on the mountain and take a measurement"...and then they'll show some guy driving for what looks like 60 miles (with all this dramatic music).  The "mountain" they refer to is a small rise at the edge of a wash about 50 feet tall and about 200 yards from the "research base" and "headquarters" (aka old run down house and a shed).  Then they'll show some guy in the dark, with no lights, acting all nervous and talking on some super static-y radio like he's on the surface of the Moon.  The reality is...they could probably hit this guy with a rock thrown from the old house they call their "research base".  Then there's all the helicopter stuff they do.  There's a guy and his brother who own a charter aviation company in SLC (this is the black helicopter you see on the show).  I actually know this guy.  He rents out his helicopter to the History channel for extra money.  They make this guy out to be some mysterious James Bond kinda guy on the show, and take video from the helo like they're flying over this ranch which, through creative editing, looks like it's as big as the state of Montana, when in reality it is barely big enough to get approval to land the helicopter on.

The whole thing is beyond a comical joke.  The show should really be on the comedy channel.  And...it damn sure ain't "History".

Here's the best part...(DOGE anyone?)....

In 2005, Colm Kelleher and co-author George Knapp published a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker, in which they describe the ranch being acquired by Bigelow to study anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and poltergeist activity reported by its former owners.

Kelleher and Knapp's book was read by Defense Intelligence Agency official James Lacatski, who contacted Bigelow and obtained permission to visit the ranch. Lacatski had a supernatural experience there, which Bigelow relayed to his friend Harry Reid. Reid and Ted Stevens, a UFO experiencer, quickly agreed that the ranch deserved attention and inserted a line into the Department of Defense budget appropriating $22 million to study unidentified aerial phenomena.

And this...

In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a tongue-in-cheek Pigasus Award for funding the purchase of the ranch and for supporting John E. Mack's and Budd Hopkins' investigations. The award category designated Bigelow as "the funding organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult [claim]".

In 2023, ufologist Barry Greenwood, writing in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, criticized the $22 million research program led by James Lacatski. He emphasized the lack of any documentary evidence from the ranch after many decades of exploration and characterized Skinwalker as "always in the business of selling belief and hope".

Because that's...wait for it...where the money is!!

Believe me now?

[NobodySpecial268]

I'll just throw this out there, FWIW...

If E.T. has the technology to come to Earth from another star system, then E.T. knows everything there is to know about humans.  Because, we're talking about technology that we (humans) can't even imagine, let alone invent.  Consequently, it naturally follows that if E.T. didn't want to be seen, then we (humans) would never see E.T...like at all...ever.  AND, if E.T. did want to be seen, he wouldn't appear in some distant, shaky (or blurry) video.  If E.T. wanted to be seen and detected, he'd set down in the middle of the White House lawn in full view of anyone who cared to look.  There's really not any ground in between...if you think seriously about it.  E.T. would never be this elusive..."now you see me, now you don't"...phenomenon.  Well, that is unless you also believe that E.T. also has a giant sense of humor.  But something tells me E.T.'s sense of humor (if he has such a thing) would be something us humans could not begin to even comprehend.  Like his humor would go..."right over our head's"...literally and metaphorically.

Cough splutter choke . . . the White House front lawn? Why not the Kremlin? I know the Kremlin doesn't have a front lawn but still. Personally, if I were an ET, I wouldn't bother with Canberra, Australia since next to no one has ever heard of, let alone where the place is. I have heard Canberra actually exists and is somewhere to the east of where I live.

As for a sense of humour, I'm of the impression the ETs don't have one, period.

That said, those blurry pictures playing hide and seek are more like the behaviour of children who like to play pranks on adults.

These UFO/UAP guys are all just a bunch of hucksters who sold plastic bead necklaces on the beach before they got this UFO gig.

Well yes, the 'To The Stars Academy' with the otherwise unemployed pop star certainly did give the impression of hucksters. On the other hand though, a lot of people quietly study the lights in the sky.

Do I believe E.T. is real?  Well, there's a solid argument for him and a solid argument against him existing (depending on whose mathematical model you look at), but I would say the odds of E.T. existing somewhere in the Universe are definitely in his favor.  However, I will also say my usual piece here...humans are selfish and self-important, egotistical, creatures.  To think E.T. would actively seek out some fragile to a fault creature such as humans from across the Universe pretty much pegs the ego-meter.  We humans just aren't that important to the big scheme of things.  And, if that wasn't enough, to think that E.T. would be a life form we humans would even recognize as another life form blows the needle clean off the ego-meter!

But, but...BUT...you say.  Maybe it's not E.T.!  What if it's just some phenomenon other than E.T.???  Okay, fair enough, BUT...that is never, not even once, how ANY of these UFO/UAP phenomenon are ever characterized by any of these 'researchers'.  Not once!  Nope, it's always a "shapeshifting 'grey' behind the steering wheel"...every time.  It's always the two big eyes, big head, a torso, 2 arms and two legs, drug out of a crashed spacecraft in Roswell (or somewhere) and taken to Area 51.  Every time.  So, when you ask why this is; the answer is pretty obvious, isn't it?  Because that's ..wait for it...where the money is.

That's why I liked the Crimean video of the "Russian Phoenix Lights" - that was just some ordinary fella with a camera. His wife had her arms full of house cleaning things. Even the mother-in-law was there. Better video too.

Sorry for being Debbie Downer here, but just wanted to throw out this counter-point.

"Prove me wrong!"  

No Debbie Downer there, I thought you made a lot of sense.